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.

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.

Those are the actions of someone who has dealt with The Public

I wonder how many times they had people trying to push the doors instead.

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.

But what about the emergency described on the door? Does it also apply?

Now think about the people that need all that and how they treat road signage.

Great, I think I got it, but just in case tell me the whole thing again I wasn't listening.

"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

To be honest, I sometimes miss these because I'm tall and they're so low, by the time I'm at the door, I don't see anything obvious. I have to bend my head down to notice there's writing on a button that otherwise looks like the top of a fob scanner or something.

Those big chunky buttons that push like emergency stop buttons but are green, they're helpful.

I would just stand there looking lost just to see how many more signs could be put up.

Define "emergency"

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And people will STILL try to push the door, or wait for it to open.

They'd have much more success if they wrote "DO NOT PUSH THIS BUTTON" on the actual button.

Receptionist: DID YOU NOT SEE THE SIGNS!?

Patient: bitch I'm blind.

This is like when there are way too many signs for the restroom at a restaurant - I like to imagine how each & everyone added has a little origin story to tell.

Understood. Don't do anything apart from stop him entering the room.