Your New Favorite Employee

It’s late Thursday afternoon and you’re sitting at your mahogany desk (cubical). In the distance you can hear your boss’ voice down the hall, screaming about the sub-par (in his opinion only, of course) TPS reports you just submitted. If you don’t mask these nails on the chalkboard, this is going to be a long end to your week, and you may end up jobless for the Holiday season. Fear no more, workday warriors, your prayers have been answered.

Swimming its way to the top of my favorite workplace pass-times is GrooveShark, the online radio website at the cutting edge of the digital media market. Yea, yea, I know you’re used to your faithful Pandora, and you’re scared to leave that old box behind. Or maybe you’re thinking, “I can just search tracks on YouTube.” But it’s time to move on. It’s December, and almost 2010. You’re about to get that big promotion (when you fix those TPS reports), and you’re a more experienced listener with higher standards.

Unlike its “competitors,” GrooveShark has respect for his god-like new manager. And why wouldn’t he? You, the soon-to-be corporate leader, don’t take no for an answer, and you won’t stand for anything but studio quality from your employee(s). You also don’t actually want to do any plebian work like searching, scrolling, or any other –ing that involves thinking creatively on your own. No worries. Your best suck-up has you covered. Just type in the exact song or artist you’d like to help drown out your workday sorrows, GrooveShark finds your track or tracks, along with a host of other similar songs; you choose the song to start the playlist and GrooveShark (as a good worker should) does the rest.

With an option to turn the radio function on or off, you have free reign to decide how much or how little control your assistant can have over this acoustic challenge you’ve so graciously let him take on.

Oh, and did I mention there are no commercials or audio advertisements? Well, there aren’t. But then again, that would be rude of lower management to interrupt a more senior member of the team, wouldn’t it? I think so too.

Enjoy.

http://www.grooveshark.com/