I narrate audiobooks for a living.

Sometimes I do them in my home studio, but sometimes I have to work with a sound engineer to record them in a booth across town. I almost always get assigned the same guy, and I can’t stand him.

It takes about three full days to record an average book, so that’s three full days of being shut in a tiny sound booth with no one but Marcus, the asshole sound engineer, for company.

When we first started working together, I thought he was shy and not great with people. Then I realized he’s just an asshole.

It’s normal when you’re in the middle of recording for the engineer to have to stop you periodically when you miss a word, say the wrong thing, or something doesn’t sound right to them. There’s a polite way of doing... Read More