Now you are making excuses. Anything that distracts someone's full attention to the job at hand is a distraction. I've got seven fingers. I learned that lesson the hard way . Excuses don't cut it. You want excuses complain to the shop steward. Excuses and distractions are not what the individual is being paid to accomplish. Listening to music, lollygagging, water cooler convversations when not on break, Circuit City a good example. Employees too busy pretending to work to do any work and customers walking out making no purchases and never returning. ANY distraction from the job at hand violates all your nicely arranged from some is a reason to rotate the unemployment roles. I don't care if the employee is not bothering anyone else. The employee can't hear anyone else especially the waiting customers.

So is paying attention to work which often means listening instead of being distracted. Work is not there to accomodate different tastes it's there to accommodate the employees bank account twice a month. IF the work is done correctly and on time.

The business is not there to accommodate someone's need for an income. It's their to accomodate the customers and the owners investment.

For me... it was easy and is easy for me to say and to apply. . I was raised properly with a work ethic. For my employees it was on the sheet of paper for conduct in the work place. They didn't like it hit the bricks. They didn't comply hit the bricks.

On the other hand if the employees suggested something that might help production and it worked their pay check had a bonus or a raise. That did not include distracting activities. One I recall distinctly was job rotation to combat what at times could be very boring work that still had to be done. That one suggestion worked into a ten percent increase in job completion. A second was pricing. I hated .99 and other idiotic prices. so all my stuff was marked in even dollar amounts. .99 became 1.00. The suggestion was return to the .99 pricing. with examples. sure enough sales rose 40% in two months. Not my fault you think 19.99 is a great price while $20 is not. We found we could raise prices and it woul work. 18.00 became 19.99 Anyway that was promotion time for one individual.

But earbuds to accomodaste employees while they are being distracted from work? No even if it's Bach or Sibelius. But as for dress code? I wouldn't look at an application if the baseball cap was on backward. A sign of moronic stupidity unless they are welding.

I sent them out to find the job bush. Big green thing jump up snag a leaf and wow your working. Kerry had them in Massachusetts when he was governor.

Do iyou agree with loud music in the work place because some like it and some like it loud. As with clothing the only moral code is Me First with no regard to otheres not even a screw you . Just a 'huh?"

Not even the distracted drivers? I recall another version of billboard size television sets that blinded drivers at night. Near Seattle Washington.

He won't have to do it again Word gets around. And it's the base for customer relations and all that should go with it and so often doesn't anymore. Sloppy breeds sloppy. My application had a large blank space and stated write in your own hand writing using an ink pen what you can do to assist my business. Word got around. As I recall the job went to one applicant who neatly wrote, "Nothing at the present time. I have no skills yet. But I'm asking for entry level with training and I do pay attention. Please notice what I am wearing." Spoke well too.

The reason for school uniforms was to remove class distinctions. as a distraction. Maybe the students would be better off learning class distinctions are a government institution.

Drunken pub crawl? Why you are talking millenial students and what else would you expect from that generation. Easy correction. Naked Chain Gangs. Moralit of it? What need of morality for people who have none. It was stated as a drunken pub crawl.