Air traffic controllers wear a small in the ear style headphone, and only in one ear. It was far easier to wear ATC headset than headphones all day. Plus I usually took a 30 min break every two hours so I didn't need to wear it all day.
I think he meant the airport employees on the tarmac who wear giant ear muffs.
Re:U.S. workers hate ‘open’ office spaces
by commandlinefan on Monday March 25, 2019 @04:42PM
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You're giving me too much credit, I meant the guys in the air traffic control tower - I just thought they wore the same giant ear muffs that the guys down on the tarmac wear.
I've got even more bad news... the guys in the tower generally aren't ATC, but ground traffic control. The ATC guys will be in a dark room somewhere, probably a basement.
That would be wrong.
The guys in the tower are ATC, they do ground control (still ATC) and local control, surface to 2500' with a 5-mile radius. The dark room guys (TRACON) do surface to the top of their airspace (depends, 18k, 23k) with a 60-mile radius (roughly). Then there is center/en route, which does air traffic above the TRACON when you are level flying at 30k+.
Simplified version.
Source: Was an air traffic controller.
Re:U.S. workers hate ‘open’ office spaces
by commandlinefan on Tuesday March 26, 2019 @10:01AM
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I can't believe Hollywood has been misleading me all these years...
After 8 hours, my ears actually hurt from wearing air-traffic-controller style headphones all day.