Testimony from a Female Executive Secretary at an Overseas Corporation Headquarters
Iâm not sure how much Iâm allowed to talk about this⊠but at the very least, itâs true that the name is being mentioned internally.
I work as a secretary on the executive floor at headquarters. My usual duties are preparing meeting materials and coordinating schedules with external parties. But a few weeks ago, fragments of conversation about a certain audio source started coming up.
At first, it was the legal team talking. They used very matter-of-fact languageâthings like âit resembles operational noise from the factoryâ and âthereâs a possibility the waveforms match.â
No specific song title was mentioned at the time. But later, while organizing documents, I saw the name of a Japanese rock band listed. I think it was Kanashibari.
Iâm not particularly knowledgeable about music, but there were comparison materials attached. They placed recordings from inside the factory next to noise components from part of a track, with notes explaining that the waveforms appeared similar.
Sounds like metal scraping, low vibrations repeating at regular intervals, bursts of high-frequency noise appearing intermittently⊠those elements were described as possibly being âacoustic patterns unique to specific equipment.â
But no one was definitively saying it was actually recorded at our facility, or how it could have been captured. Everything was framed as a âpossibility.â
The talk of a lawsuit wasnât formal, either. At least in the schedules and documents I handled, there were no concrete detailsâno filing dates, no court names, nothing like that.
What felt strange, though, was that the communications department remained completely silent. Normally, when rumors like this surface, at least an internal draft statement circulates. But there was nothing.
It seemed like the discussion was happening only between legal and senior management. I do know there were several meetings at a level that wasnât even shared with the secretarial staff.
I also heard about the forum post. Apparently the original message was deleted quickly, but screenshots circulated, and some people inside the company saw them.
Still, it wasnât clear whether any of that could be treated as evidence. There were parallel discussions about whether similarity in sound alone could justify any kind of claim.
Personally, it doesnât feel very real to me. The idea that industrial sounds end up in music isnât exactly unusual.
But I could sense a slight shift in the atmosphere among upper management. That quiet tension you get just before something serious happens.
The kind of situation where no one mentions it openly, but the people involved all know itâs there.
In the end, I still donât know whether a lawsuit is actually moving forward, still in preparation, or just a rumor. From my position, thereâs no way to tell.
The only thing I can say for certain is this: the matter isnât being ignored.
At least, not on that floor.
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