• Ananääs@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    11·
    5 hours ago

    Ah yes.

    Also: instead of googling for the opening times better waste everyone’s time by sending a text or an email to the shop and making them spell it out for you!

    Also: if you see the shop is clearly closed, lights aren’t on and you can see the opening times on the door and they say it’s not open but someone is inside better start knocking because surely they wish to serve you.

    Also: never read the instructions of a product. Instead complain that it’s broken and demand a new product. Repeat.

    Also: if you see a price list/menu/price tag or similar and you accidentally read it, better double check the price by asking “does this item cost what it says here”

    Also: “employees only” actually means “for adventurous customers”

    Also: if it says push, pull, if it says pull, push.

  • Takios@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    15·
    6 hours ago

    Signs and stuff I can kind of understand. Our world is chock full of things (ads) that try to get our attention at any point. At some point you develop an internal adblock and since 98% is irrelevant it is a reasonable drawback that the remaining 2% gets filtered out as well.

  • Mandy@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    10·
    8 hours ago

    I dont wanna say the average person is stupid but they make it really difficult to not think so.
    Call it illiterate tunnel vision or whatever else youd like, but come one.
    Heres some personal examples from work:

    1. big neonsign at the door at eyeheight telling people when the store opens, 1 out of 6 people looks at it the rest doesnt even see it, one once was even mad and blew out the doorglass with a kick.
    2. registers, big neon signs to say "hey douchenozzle, next one this is closed) and even when another worker is waiting and lookin at the person, they still dont get until you loudly talk to them to come to the other one.
    3. god forbid someone needs something in another part of the store, unless you use children level semantics (go to blue line for example) they never find what they looking for.

    those are just my personal examples but outside of that you see it seemingly everywhere.

  • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️@yiffit.netEnglish
    34·
    13 hours ago

    I have always had the opposite problem. You put written words in front of me, and I am compelled to read them. I only stopped reading TOS/EULAs because they’re always the same! You read 10 of em, you start to see they’re all exactly the same, with just names being changed.

      • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️@yiffit.netEnglish
        27·
        11 hours ago

        You agree to not break the law using their product, you agree to arbitration instead of going to a real court (which the company would pay for, not you, so please actually take them up on this en mass), you agree to not reverse engineer the code, reproduce the code or redistribute the code, etc. Long ass lists of what you can and can not use it for. Sometimes there’s funny shit in there like the tos for iTunes disallows you to use the software to create nuclear weapons. Idk how you would use iTunes for that but I guess they wanted all their bases covered.

        Tl;Dr - “You agree to be raped in the asshole by capitalism.”

  • ALostInquirer@lemm.eeEnglish
    7·
    10 hours ago

    When what’s written is in a language you can read, what’s up with that? Reading is free, so to speak, and it enables laziness by not having to find and ask people stuff

    • Honytawk@lemmy.zipEnglish
      1·
      35 minutes ago

      Reading is free, but my time sure isn’t.

      It is really discouraging when I have to wade through ads just to find the portion I am looking to read. If I can’t find the information I need quickly, I just don’t bother with it and go somewhere else.

    • MystikIncarnate@lemmy.caEnglish
      1·
      8 hours ago

      I’m not going to defend people that are too lazy to comprehend words on a sign.

      What I will say, is that it took me entirely too long to look up when I was at the grocery store. One of my first jobs was at a grocery store and it took me far too long to notice the signs.

    • lseif@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      1·
      8 hours ago

      in my experience, its easy to not notice a sign altogether. too busy looking for some(one|thing) possibly

  • ChonkyOwlbear@lemmy.worldEnglish
    14·
    12 hours ago

    I worked gate security at a baseball stadium. Right next to where I stood there were two huge signs reading “No Smoking” and “No Re-entry”. Guess what questions I got asked all day.