Day laborers beg for silence as Home Depot weaponizes sound

Deals on duct tape and the peals of institutional cruelty are the current Home Depot ambiance in Los Angeles. Day laborers, who’ve weathered pandemics, government abduction, and everything short of a plague of locusts, now have to contend with a nonstop industrial whine pumped directly into their skulls while waiting for jobs. The earplugs help, but the…