I've recently been promoted and have moved to a new office at work. The people I share the new office with are lovely and supportive and have been very welcoming.
However, there is one problem. The have the radio on all day and it's set to a local radio channel full of adverts and chart music (the same six songs played on a loop it seems). I'm not having a go at people who like chart music - it's just never been my thing.
But it's driving me up the wall! It's not exactly stopping me from concentrating but I find myself getting really tense when Elton John and Dua Lipa come for the fifth time that day or there's a phone in about what sandwich the listeners had for lunch.
I don't feel I can raise it as this is the way the others had have their office set up for ages. I'm the new person so don't feel I can start dictating the radio stations. We are all the same level of seniority but I am obviously the least experienced and often have to ask the others for advice on how to access systems etc so I want to maintain our current good relationship. Plus, I like them as people.
My personal choice would be radio 4 (I know this would go down like a lead balloon so not going there) or radio 6 (it's not a digital radio). I could cope with radio 2 but I overheard one of the others moaning once when another colleague changed to this channel in the past before I moved to this office.
Any suggestions? I'm starting to wake up in the night with the songs going round my head and I hate it. Apart from this, the job is great.