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Happens in IT as well. If you choose to alert on all the things, you’re going to get burned at some point.
Sounds like when you start sleeping through your alarm clock, and the phone alarm, and the other other alarm clock.
What’s a daisy in this context?
It’s a nursing excellence award. Pretty prestigious. You can be nominated by a patient or an employee. They write down why they think you are deserving of one on a card and then a panel chooses who gets awarded. There’s even a runner-up kind of award if the nurse was in the final considerations but didn’t actually win.
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Nobody will ever understand alarm fatigue, or its close cousins. Not in history.
Maybe imprison fewer people against their will then
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signs are invisible to people. at my workplace we had to lock one of our double doors because of a maintenance issue and i put a sign saying “use other door” with a huge arrow pointing to the other door. the instant i walked away after attaching the sign directly on the door handle, someone tried the locked door. pushing the handle with the sign on it.
We have socially conditioned ourselves to ignore signage if we aren’t specifically looking for it. 99% of signage in today’s world is usually just an ad being shoved into your face trying to sell something. It is a bombardment of annoying and intrusive information to the point our minds have trained themselves to filter the visual noise out. It is literally too much for our mind to process, so most of it gets deleted from our consciousness in the same way the hole in your vision from your optical nerve is being hidden from your perception unless you specifically expose it.
This explains the ignorance of global warming perfectly.
Explains a lot of ignorance in general tbh
My brain tends to overlook the big BIG buttons. Like when I was on vacation last month and they had a different cashier system and I couldn’t find the “pay with credit card” button. I tried every other button on the screen, until I gave up and asked another person. They looked at me in absolute disbelief an touched the BIG button that took up about half of the screen. To me it just came into existence at this point of time, it just wasn’t there seconds before the other person touched it. I’m really careful about opening doors though, and I surely would have seen “emergency” written on the door.
Yeah, buttons should look like buttons. If it takes up half the screen a lot of people are going to miss it because they’re looking for something that looks like a button.
That’s bad UI, not you. Your brain was pattern matching for something that looked like a button, didn’t lock onto the non-button thing, because why would it?
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Those are the actions of someone who has dealt with The Public
Literally had to put a sign on my door saying to use the god damn doorbell with an arrow pointing directly at it. The pizza guy would then call me, asking why I didn’t open when he knocked. Maybe because I can’t hear your fucking knock, which is why I bought a god damn doorbell! Fuck the public.
I wonder how many times they had people trying to push the doors instead.
Had? I bet you they still have people pushing the doors all the time.
Maybe even more now because the button is perfectly camouflaged between all the useless signs.
I have no trouble understanding why this has to be this way.
Twice a year our facility has a staff day where we get hit up by aflac and find out how we are doing as a organization. We have huge placards we place in the walkways leading up to the doors. Our meeting room is right by those doors and inevitably we will have people who ignore all the signs saying closed walk to the doors and pull them several times before finally reading the sign that we also put on the door.
And sometimes you get so used to there being brightly colored ads,
corporate propagandamotivational messages and various warning signs everywhere, that you develop a blindness for everything too flashy and ignore it until you encounter a roadblock that doesn’t yield.This is true and not just about ads. It’s called ‘sign blindness’.
Having more signs can actually exacerbate the problem.
It’s not (always) about being dumb or careless, it’s our nature.You don’t normally have to step around a billboard.
Good thing they weren’t specifically talking about billboards and instead were speaking to the much broader spectrum of advertising strategies.
Good thing you aren’t them so its not up to you to say what they were talking about.
Truthfully it’s a design issue. If people keep coming up to a door and pulling on it, it’s because the design of the door is instructing them to do so. Design imparts information. A door in a home can have simple knobs - anyone living there can just learn which doors to push/pull. A door in a public space instead needs to be designed to tell people how to operate it, even without any labeling.
A door is a simple device. It shouldn’t require reading labels or a manual. It’s operation should be abundantly obvious. After all, even those who don’t speak the language or are illiterate need to be able to operate doors. A door that needs instructions is one that is poorly designed.
But what about the emergency described on the door? Does it also apply?
Yes, it’s probably referring to the climate crisis. I think it qualifies as a emergency allowing me to not use the button
Uhm, instructions unclear. Let me find something to break the glass.
The emergency: the button not working
Not even ironically. We have automatic sliding doors where I work, which are designed to open outward if pushed, to allow safe exit in a crowd stampede emergency.
Every so often somebody leans against it, bumps open the emergency mechanism, and trips the alarm. Which is pretty chill, but a staff member has to push it back into place before the door opens and closes automatically again.
Recently this happened, and instead of waiting 20 seconds for a staff to fix it, the customer pushed the doors the rest of the way out, because the door not opening automatically was “an emergency.”
So is there room to add “if button fails”?
Great, I think I got it, but just in case tell me the whole thing again I wasn’t listening.
this movie just randomly popped into my head last night when i was desperately trying to sleep and i couldn’t stop thinking about it. i blame you, for the record.
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No, you’re supposed to rip the button out of the wall and push it towards the exit
Now think about the people that need all that and how they treat road signage.
“No, it opens both ways. I was here yesterday.”
slowly breaks the door open
Many years ago, before we automated our deployment, we got our devs to do it manually. The guy that wrote the instructions in bold red letters at the top, put something like “log in as X” and no one would follow. He asked me what to do, I said, “put it as step 1 instead of bold letters at the top”. Never had anyone mess up afterwards. Thank God we automated it though.
Our brains work in weird ways.
Oh hey, let me make a treasure map and put the treasure map into the treasure chest and bury it under ground.
Why can’t people find my treasure? Are they fucking idiots or something?
I should probably put more maps in the chest.
Just like those ominous whispers when you look at the soft spot on a baby’s head
Or the things the knives whisper.
I’ve always been too terrified of bumping those to let the intrusive thoughts in.
The very first time I put my then-newborn to bed without anyone else present, I accidentally bumped the back/top of their head against the top frame of their bedding area. They made the saddest expression then started screaming their despair. Even if I hadn’t been worried about it before then, I don’t know that I’ve ever felt so much guilt or apologized so much, nor been so worried about long term consequences (to their development, not to myself).
Fortunately, they seem to be developing well and, though I can’t forget that happening, I very much doubt they even remember it to be upset.
I very much doubt they even remember it to be upset
That may or may not be a good thing (I’m joking I’m sure it’s all fine!)
Nice! I try to be generally positive and uplifting on this account, but I admit I wish I’d thought of this joke. It’s a good one.
