Singing

 Every year we get a few research assistants in my office. Some become one of the family and other's keep their distance. Yesterday we met a new one. She is a college student and seems pleasant. One of her tasks was to make copies. The copier is in the front office next to the receptionist. It is also next to the Alexa dot that plays our music. It took the girl over an hour to make the copies since there were a lot of papers. For the entire hour, she sang out loud with Alexa. I mean out loud, as if she was a back up singer. It was annoying and distracting. The receptionist and I were on phone calls and the "live background music" was playing at full force. If it was not her first day, we would have told her to pipe down. We did not tell her because she is not yet part of the family and we would have hurt her feelings. I do not know if she did not know how loud she was singing, did not care or did not know that she was distracting. Either way, she was oblivious.