Personality Reflects A Work Environment

ClassicRockr

ClassicRockr

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In my last job, I had my own office, computer, phone.......fairly quiet. Some jobs before were in fairly loud environments as in a Warehouse, Manufacturing and Machine Shop, where a person had to speak loudly to be heard by co-workers or management. Yes, CNC machines/Drill Presses running and forklifts running around (not the quiet electric ones, but the propane and gas ones). Some places ear plugs had to be worn. If you've ever worked in that type of environment, you definitely know what I mean by the word "loud".

Anyway, my wife has always worked inside an office environment with Accounting and now Mortgaging. Darn near could hear a pin drop on the floor! Basically, the only noises being heard was fingers typing away at keys on a computer keyboard or someone on the phone talking normally.

Sometimes my wife will say to me "why are you yelling?". I'll tell her, "I'm not yelling, I simply talking over the A/C, TV, dishwasher, washer or dryer." She understands, but I do have to remind her of the "loud" work environments that I was in for years.
I use to have a friend that would say something to me from the short hallway outside her bedroom and I be right below/downstairs watching tv with the A/C on. She would look down at me and say, "why are you yelling" and I'd say "what did you say?". Like my wife, she had a fairly low voice.

So, has this happened to you? Can you be a loud talker, coming from a work environment that you were in?
 

Yes,working in the body shop for 34 years (41 for hubby) we both lost some hearing. I was in the office but it was still loud in there-not to mention I was always having to run out into the shop for this or that reason. We never wore ear protection. I know my brother in law started wearing it the last few years but by then it was too late.
 
Nothing louder than a jet engine(s) preparing for takeoff. Luckily the engines have always been behind me in the jets and with the headphones on, it wasn't too bad. I did acquire tinnitus in both ears, but that may have come from other loud noises.

If you have flown, I am sure that if you have ever sat at the window where the engines are and upon landing heard the thrust reversers deployed, you would agree that they can be pretty loud. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k796qVt51dI
 
The first time I flew, in a jet, I was right next to the engines. On takeoff it wasn't to bad but then we started to climb fast. Those engines started to scream so bad I thought something was wrong with the plane. It scared the living, you know what, out of me.

PS......I now drive and keep my arse firmly planted on the good earth. ;)
 
Pappy.....I always heard a lot of passengers ask about noises when deplaning. They will ask, "What was that roaring noise I heard while we were landing? It would come and go" Or, "I heard a loud vibration just after we lifted off back at the airport and it lasted for almost two minutes. What was that? Were we in trouble?"
 
My problem wasn't/isn't necessarily "hearing" someone, but talking to them. Because I was so use to talking loud, at some of the jobs I had, sometimes my wife thinks I'm yelling at her. I'm not yelling, I'm just talking above the sounds that are going on. Not going to turn off the A/C, dishwasher or laundry machines each time I say something to her.
As for my hearing, there were times that I did have to wear ear plugs b/c it was a company policy in the shop. But, of course, as I'm getting older, my hearing is also getting older and her normal tone of voice is low b/c of the environment she works in. It would be like being around a Librarian who spends a lot of time in that very quiet environment.
 
My late FIL always talked in a loud voice from many years of outdoor construction work. His wife would always try to shush him in gatherings. funny but my Pop did the same kind of work, and was very conscious of talking moderately indoors.
Oldman, I love those jet noises! Rev up before takeoff, reverse thrusters, etc. A few years ago went to a huge air show at Kirtland AFB here in ABQ, really got my fill!!!! Couldn't hear for a few days after, but low passes by Thunderbirds, then screaming straight up in the air almost out of sight. And so many other different kinds of aircraft. If all goes well, I'm ''leaving on a jet plane'' before the end of the month for a little trip.
 
I worked in a cannery for 2 seasons when I was probably 19-20. I can still remember the sound of those pear coring machines. I'd hear them when I wasn't at work.

I worked in a nursing home laundry. Big noisy washing machines. Now I work in a nursing home as a nurse and some residents can sure yell. I sometimes forget that everyone in a nursing home is not hard of hearing and I've been told I talk too loud sometimes.
 
I have the same problem with my hearing. Don't know if it is old age setting in or the results of time spent in high noise job areas. I think people talk softer (and enunciate less) than they used to... or is it me?
 

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