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Orrex

(66,427 posts)
Wed Nov 12, 2025, 01:34 PM Nov 12

Holy fuck I'm sick of working in homes that play Fox News

I should get hazard pay for this bullshit.

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Holy fuck I'm sick of working in homes that play Fox News (Original Post) Orrex Nov 12 OP
I do home infusion IV's FarPoint Nov 12 #1
Wear headphones and listen to music all day FakeNoose Nov 12 #2
😱🤮🤮😵😵‍💫 Traildogbob Nov 12 #3
Do they all live in Jiffy-Lubes? lame54 Nov 12 #4
If FOX"news" is being aired when I viait my local Jiffy Lube, I simply ask for a channel change. 11 Bravo Nov 12 #16
Look on the bright side dweller Nov 12 #5
I think you mean Ilsa Nov 12 #15
well duh dweller Nov 12 #18
When TSF dies, it WILL finally be peacetime normal DBoon Nov 12 #28
I see what you mean now! Thanks for Ilsa Nov 12 #34
BAAAHAHAHAHAAAA! Indeed! electric_blue68 Nov 12 #30
You could respond thusly EYESORE 9001 Nov 12 #6
I have been visiting a friend in a rehabilitation center. Katinfl Nov 12 #7
Making dumb people dumber; FOX News. twodogsbarking Nov 12 #8
Yuck! --- Over the years, I've switched barber shops quite a few times when I walk in and hear Fox on the TV... QueerDuck Nov 12 #9
It's not hard to figure out why some people are the way they are after listening to that stream of BS all day and night. hadEnuf Nov 12 #10
I quit going to a local diner because they started playing Fox News on 1/2 the TVs. Initech Nov 12 #11
I get that a 'sports bar' might have TVs ClaudetteCC Nov 12 #19
The last time I went there, they had Sean Hannity on one of the TVs. Initech Nov 12 #29
maybe i don't get out much :) ClaudetteCC Nov 12 #31
I feel for you Grim Chieftain Nov 12 #12
FoxNews addicts are beyond help. mn9driver Nov 12 #13
There was a corner of the old East Germany like that DFW Nov 12 #14
So turn the TV off. :) ificandream Nov 12 #17
You can't do that in a client's house you're working in. Liberal In Texas Nov 13 #37
I don't know what you do but - Nigrum Cattus Nov 12 #20
MAGA cult members paxmoki Nov 12 #21
Liberals and progressives dont suck in msnbc all day. Weird behavior BlueWaveNeverEnd Nov 12 #24
Headphones. twodogsbarking Nov 12 #22
News Corp business model... rubbersole Nov 12 #23
First time I heard Rush Limbaugh... BurnDoubt Nov 12 #25
In my senior move job the few times I have packed up some seniors who have fox on turn out to be big jerks kimbutgar Nov 12 #26
I had a contractor play his religious bs station in my house. GreenWave Nov 12 #27
Several years ago, Fox News was on everywhere I went, MIButterfly Nov 12 #32
Thank you, all, for your replies! Orrex Nov 12 #33
Pour cement in their toilet. Hassin Bin Sober Nov 12 #35
I turn it off when I arrive. But, as a visit nurse I'm there less than an hour. I feel for you. mucifer Nov 13 #36

11 Bravo

(24,253 posts)
16. If FOX"news" is being aired when I viait my local Jiffy Lube, I simply ask for a channel change.
Wed Nov 12, 2025, 03:17 PM
Nov 12

They have never hesitated to grant my request.

dweller

(27,610 posts)
5. Look on the bright side
Wed Nov 12, 2025, 01:45 PM
Nov 12

At least you’ll know when FAUX goes to DEFCON 5 that the motherfucker has died …

😬




✌🏻

Ilsa

(63,615 posts)
34. I see what you mean now! Thanks for
Wed Nov 12, 2025, 11:22 PM
Nov 12

that perspective. Earlier I thought you might have been referring to the MAGAts instigating violence with conspiracy theories.

Katinfl

(558 posts)
7. I have been visiting a friend in a rehabilitation center.
Wed Nov 12, 2025, 02:18 PM
Nov 12

Every time I saw her she had Fox on the TV. Very low sound, just the constant streaming of that garbage across the screen. Constant. I don’t think she even understands half of the BS, but she sees it and she votes. Scary.

QueerDuck

(673 posts)
9. Yuck! --- Over the years, I've switched barber shops quite a few times when I walk in and hear Fox on the TV...
Wed Nov 12, 2025, 02:27 PM
Nov 12

in the waiting area. I leave and never come back... I'm running out of local barbers. Currently I drive about 12 miles to a "chain" franchise barber that only plays sports TV. The locally owned barbers that do not blast Fox news are harder to find.

hadEnuf

(3,473 posts)
10. It's not hard to figure out why some people are the way they are after listening to that stream of BS all day and night.
Wed Nov 12, 2025, 02:29 PM
Nov 12

Elderly don't get out as often as they like, so Fox is their version of reality.

Initech

(106,960 posts)
11. I quit going to a local diner because they started playing Fox News on 1/2 the TVs.
Wed Nov 12, 2025, 02:39 PM
Nov 12

And I let them know why. Which sucks because that diner had a great patio and is a good place for breakfast. But I don't support fascist restaurants.

ClaudetteCC

(127 posts)
19. I get that a 'sports bar' might have TVs
Wed Nov 12, 2025, 03:29 PM
Nov 12

so i might go for special events once in a great while. At most other times and places when dining I don't want every direction I might look to have some TV screen polluting the view.

Initech

(106,960 posts)
29. The last time I went there, they had Sean Hannity on one of the TVs.
Wed Nov 12, 2025, 04:48 PM
Nov 12

And the entire time it was all "Biden sucks, Trump is great" shit. That was when I decided I was done with that place. If they put the TVs on all sports, that's one thing. But they have to have the most toxic, divisive, hateful bullshit possible. I actually kind of liked the food, but that was the deal breaker.

ClaudetteCC

(127 posts)
31. maybe i don't get out much :)
Wed Nov 12, 2025, 06:16 PM
Nov 12

but in my town the only time I encounter Fox News is one lobby of one bank branch. A tv tuned to CNN is right next to it.

Grim Chieftain

(937 posts)
12. I feel for you
Wed Nov 12, 2025, 02:42 PM
Nov 12

I was on my computer listening to MSNBC online and they aired part of the Trump bobble headed press secretary's comments. I thought I'd stroke out. I immediately turned it off and looked fondly at the bottle of Jack Daniels. Nope, not going there. These evil creeps are not going to take me down.

mn9driver

(4,799 posts)
13. FoxNews addicts are beyond help.
Wed Nov 12, 2025, 02:46 PM
Nov 12

They love the colors, the lies that make them happy, and the vaguely threatening musical undertones.

Wear ear plugs.

DFW

(59,423 posts)
14. There was a corner of the old East Germany like that
Wed Nov 12, 2025, 02:55 PM
Nov 12

Most of the territory that made up the “German Democratic Republic” was fairly flat or only mildly hilly, and the people there could receive West German TV and radio. The SED regime didn’t like it but there wasn’t much they could do about it. But there was one corner of the country whose geography and topography made it difficult to impossible to reliably get West German broadcasts. Entering their territory with western newspapers and magazines was already forbidden, and any printed matter was seized at any border crossing. But they couldn’t confiscate airwaves.

Guess which part of East Germany had the greatest percentage of loyal, true socialists? The little enclave where the people weren’t exposed to any other facts or points of view, of course. Heil Honecker, ours is the only truth you need to hear. And so they did. This doesn’t mean they were all bloodthirsty sadists celebrating every poor wannabe refugee that their socialist heroes shot down at the Berlin Wall or at the Death Strip. It does mean that they were conditioned to think it was a positive event when it happened.

This part of Germany is the deepest part of southeastern Saxony. The German spoken there has a very distinctive accent that even today makes the skin of most other Germans crawl.

Liberal In Texas

(15,832 posts)
37. You can't do that in a client's house you're working in.
Thu Nov 13, 2025, 07:19 AM
Nov 13

If some workman came into my house and decided he wanted to watch Fox Newschannel on my TV I might be more than pissed.
By the same token, you can't go in and turn off their TVs. You could ask. But even that might not be the most prudent thing to do.

paxmoki

(10 posts)
21. MAGA cult members
Wed Nov 12, 2025, 03:41 PM
Nov 12

My better half is remodeling a bathroom and the homeowners have Faux infotainment & OAN on all the time. Last Wednesday he went there and said to them “Great night for the democrats”. The women replied “They elect a communist in NYC”.
Yesterday their cable went out and they were frantic because their supply was cut off. The man was sitting in front of the tv which had a blank screen.
MAGA cult members!

BlueWaveNeverEnd

(12,218 posts)
24. Liberals and progressives dont suck in msnbc all day. Weird behavior
Wed Nov 12, 2025, 03:57 PM
Nov 12

And msnbc has a left tilt but doesn't lie

rubbersole

(10,908 posts)
23. News Corp business model...
Wed Nov 12, 2025, 03:51 PM
Nov 12

..billionaires starting Fox News then hiring attractive millionaires to convince middle class and working class Americans that all their woes are caused by people picking strawberries. And it's working as planned.

BurnDoubt

(1,257 posts)
25. First time I heard Rush Limbaugh...
Wed Nov 12, 2025, 04:18 PM
Nov 12

I was on a jobsite, working for fraudsters. This was back when California was arguing over English-As-the -official-language.
A voice from the next apartment was all about that.
When he passed the apartment I was working in he made a comment, thinking I would agree. My response was to ask him if he knew he was in a place called “Sacramento” in a State called “California”, and that his family had certainly moved there from somewhere else… Crickets.
The Trades is a good place to get a good feeling for what’s going on under those Red Hats. And it ain’t perty.
Sadly, some of the best contractors are MAGA. It suits the "Cowboy-as-King" independent crowd, where THEY make the rules and then bitch when they get red-tagged for violating the Code. So… yeah.
I worked for a widowed lady who was an “Angel” to lots of her acquaintences as she helped guide them through the issues confronting her senior friends. She was on the phone all day helping them. And in the background Rush Limbaugh is droning-on about”FemiNazis” endlessly. Such a sweet lady being poisoned a drop at a time. Incongruous.
Luckily, I didn’t have to deal with it too often. I got a license and I made a lot of effort to work in solitary. Not lucrative, but I didn’t end up dispensing “rough Justice” and having to live amongst them in the slammer.
Hang in there

kimbutgar

(26,510 posts)
26. In my senior move job the few times I have packed up some seniors who have fox on turn out to be big jerks
Wed Nov 12, 2025, 04:24 PM
Nov 12

I was supposed to unpack a fox viewer and he was so rude to my co worker who is a gay man that I asked my boss to get someone else for the unpack. I felt so sorry for his wife. She was restraining him because she turned off fox and he was going to have a meltdown. I also suspect he had dementia but he was so far gone in magaloon fox ideology.

GreenWave

(12,037 posts)
27. I had a contractor play his religious bs station in my house.
Wed Nov 12, 2025, 04:29 PM
Nov 12

GW Whom did you ask to play in our house?
Magat: Does it bother you?
GW: Time for you to hit the road, (He lost a $20,000 job.)

MIButterfly

(1,698 posts)
32. Several years ago, Fox News was on everywhere I went,
Wed Nov 12, 2025, 06:32 PM
Nov 12

doctor's office, auto mechanic, etc., but now, I hardly ever see it anywhere. Now I see GSN; HGTV; ESPN, etc. A very welcomed change.

I'm sorry that you have to go into so many homes with Fox News. I only go into one, my aunt and uncle's, and that's one too many. At least they mute it so I don't have to listen to it and I can ignore it.

mucifer

(25,439 posts)
36. I turn it off when I arrive. But, as a visit nurse I'm there less than an hour. I feel for you.
Thu Nov 13, 2025, 06:45 AM
Nov 13
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