Appreciation post for that basement job in Akron that made me switch to push-to-talk headsets

After 4 hours of yelling over a noisy furnace and having the homeowner complain about my crew's chatter, I finally realized those cheap speaker mics were wrecking our communication and now I can actually hear what the other guy is saying without repeating myself three times, anyone else switch gear after one bad job?

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kevin_carr4d ago

Took me six months of owning a hardware store to figure out the same thing with my work radios. One day I had three contractors standing in my lumber aisle shouting over each other because nobody could hear the guy getting the sheet goods down. Bought some decent over-ear headsets with noise filtering and now my backroom guys can talk without me yelling from the front counter. Small gear upgrades fix more headaches than most people want to admit.

brooke714d ago

My buddy who runs a landscaping crew had the same problem with his guys using cheap two-way radios. They upgraded to some mid-range headsets with noise cancellation and suddenly his crew could actually hear each other over the mowers. He said it cut his job site mistakes in half within a month.