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An Interview With A Guy Wearing Noise-Cancelling Headphones
Q: Thanks for meeting with me. Ready?
A: What?
Q: Thanks for meeting with me! I asked if you were ready to start the interview.
A: I’m doing great, yeah.
Q: The pandemic seems to have changed every workplace, often permanently. Has your job been effected?
A: What?
Q: Has your job been effected by the pandemic?
A: Oh! Sorry. Yeah, I work at a brewery.
Q: Right. Did it close during the lockdown?
A: What?
Q: Your job — did it close?
A: Yeah, about a half mile that way. You can actually see the one building right over the trees there.
Q: Can I ask why you’re wearing those headphones?
A: Yeah! Do you like these? They’re noise cancelling. They fold, too.
Q: They fold?
A: 28.
Q: But why are you wearing them?
A: What?
Q: Can you remove the headphones please, so you can hear me?
A: Can you speak up please? These are noice-cancelling.
