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Soundproofing a Cubicle?

Posted by Cliff on from the minimizing-the-disturbance dept.

Anon! A Mouse Cowered! asks: "I work in a 10 x 10 ft. cubicle that's about as low-end as it can be (my back wall is made of my filing cabinets). I have a cheap set of speakers on my desktop for internet radio, but if I play anything other than light jazz or classical at anything above a squeak, it's annoying to my coworkers. Are there any other Dilberts (or Wallys, even), who can offer ideas on making a workspace more livable so that I can enjoy my Primus albums at an audible volume while working?"

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  1. Re:Alternative headphone use by Jhon · · Score: 0, Troll
    Luckily for you this isn't an SAT question.
    I would suggest that YOU are lucky it wasn't an SAT question. You need to re-read what you said and note how anybody would believe you made a type-o. Either you dropped the wrong word ('they' for 'he') or you confused the antecedent. The subject of your prior sentence was NOT your neighbors, but the headphones. As it was in each prior sentence to be exact. The use of a pronoun ('he' in your case) was inappropriate to denote your neighbors. The correct use of a pronoun there would have been "it" or "they" as the antecedent were those headphones.

    For the usage you indented, you would have wanted to explicitly state your "neighbors".

    Advice: Don't make snide remarks about others confusion until you are SURE you weren't the cause of such confusion. Otherwise you come off as being a jerk.