The risk of coming late to work

Usually I'm the first one into lab and I hook the speakers up to my laptop and play music from my computer. This routine isn't usually a problem since my co-workers are completely passive aggressive and never say anything if they don't like the music. Occasionally, one of them will seem really flustered at the music that comes on and then finally request that I change it. This is no problem with me and I repeatedly have said that I can change the music and put something else on, including internet music.

(My library consists of about 4,000 songs which I have ripped from CD's or downloaded from the internet. The selection consists of indie rock, techno, some 90's and classic rock, electronic music, some top 40's beats, and a little hip-hop. I do not have any 80's music on my computer except for a little U2, Pink Floyd, and a few other select groups.)

Today, I slept in because I wasn't feeling well. (I think I'm getting a cold.) So, upon my arrival the speakers had been hooked up to a co-workers computer. Fuck! What a disaster. The music being piped into lab sounded like shit from the dentist. No kidding! "That's what friends are for" or "Oh happy day" come on? why would you even have those songs in your library as a twenty-something year old? This fuckin' easy listening rock is horrible!

Other times that I have come into labe late have resulted in a similarly fucked up music selection. The radio in lab can be tuned to local channels, but not very well. So, on more than one occasion I have come in to static being broadcast over the speakers. I ask "can you possible tune the channel so we don't have to listen to white noise?". I get a mumbled answer, indicating I can hook the speakers up to my laptop. This is so ridiculous. Music sucks in Switzerland!