'As I walked in, his jaw dropped': Forklift driver buys massive speaker to spite bosses

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    I work in a warehouse, we're allowed to have speakers but not headphones for safety reasons
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    Last week I was informed of this rule and sent home early because I was wearing earbuds. I completely understand the rule after thinking about it, but my supervisor plays favorites and allows our forklift drivers as well as team leads wear earbuds. I am
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    not a forklift driver and don't work around them but was informed we could not have them because you need to be able to hear your surroundings, and told to buy a Bluetooth speaker if I wanted to listen to music.
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    Fast forward to today, I purchased a speaker and it arrived. Mind you, almost every speaker in our facility is a small one, like 100W at most.
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    I purchased a 30,000 peak (900 watt RMS) double 15" sub and double 3" tweeter combo with its own amp. The speaker box itself is the size of a concert cabinet stack, about 5 feet tall and weighs over 100 pounds.
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    My boss was both not impressed and impressed. As I walked in, his jaw dropped. Now they're trying to rewrite the speaker rule, but there's no way they'll ever do it (as his boss assures me, for productivity reasons. And also, his boss. encouraged me to turn it up when he told on me)
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    I was able to hear my speaker blasting Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go by Wham! over 100 yards away over all of the machinery at half volume Is this fitting for the sub as my first submission?
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    cottontail57 Get your colleagues in on it. Take requests for annoying songs and then the only one with an issue will be your boss.
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    mbruns23 Might i suggest trolling them with a random mix? Whats new pussycat follwed by no diggity
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    ABewilderedPickle I like the enthusiasm, but as someone who worked in a warehouse doing warehouse stuff, it gets so annoying hearing someone else's music every single day, all day.
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    Especially when songs begin to repeat or their music taste is so antithetical to yours that you can't possibly begin to conceive of why someone would listen to it. It's so much worse when it's loud unable to be tuned out.
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    Also, forklift operators are probably the very most important people to be able to hear their surroundings. If they make a mistake, or don't see someone, they absolutely need to be able to hear someone else trying to bring it their attention.
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    mcgripit Nice MC. However, very dangerous on both your part for the speakers so loud nobody can hear anything else and your vicinity, and on your bosses/forklift drivers for making such a boneheaded mistake.
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    some_weirdo_in_sa This is brilliant! But you know what you have to do now, right? No speaker is worn in properly untill it has played Bohemian Rhapsody on full volume...
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    Prechrchet This seems to me to be making a bad situation worse. The idea behind Malicious Compliance is that you show your bosses the unexpected (to them) consequences of a stupid rule, or a rule that is being over-enforced or mis- applied.
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    The problem here is not the rule; banning headphones makes sense in your environment, as it is a safety issues. Rather, the problem is that it is not being properly enforced and the OP's solution does not move the business in the direction of doing so. While it might eventually result in allowing the OP to wear headphones, doing so would lead to some serious safety issues, and possibly a major accident.
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    Wonderful_Minut... You sound super annoying.

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