Monday, January 21, 2008

Can You Hear Me Now?

Over the past few weeks, we’ve been undergoing some construction in the newsroom. 

The (cough cough) dust is flying but the work on our new newsroom is nearly completion. It’s been a six to eight week adventure, and in this period of time we’ve had to work through the sound of metal cutting through our concrete floors, the doors being propped open and the cold outside air flowing freely into our workspace so that the contractors can bring in new desks, duct work, insultation, pipes, frames and everything else under the sun which has stirred up the dust from places that haven’t had the dust disturbed in probably 15-20 years.

The whole thing is somewhat funny to me. Why, might you ask? Part of the job of the Content Coordinators is to listen to police, fire and ems officials talk the official “talk” also know as ten codes. More on that later. The day the construction crews planned on cutting into the concrete, they graciously provided the desk with some ear plugs. Part of our job is to be able to hear the scanners and yet we had to block out the concrete cutting sound. Hmmmmm. How do you do that?