• Mandy@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    1·
    44 minutes 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.

    • Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.techEnglish
      2·
      48 minutes ago

      Work retail and you’ll see how little people read. There can be a sign in giant huge letters when walking in the door saying “Sale things aisle 7” and they’ll stop en employee right by the sign and ask where the sales things are

    • Breadhax0r@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      1 hour ago

      In my previous job i had to do a lot of coordination via email. I learned very quickly you can only ask a single question per email because very very few people would ever answer more than that. God forbid there was some semi complex task that needs done.

      • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        1 hour ago

        Ha! I just gave that advice to someone on Lemmy a couple weeks ago. They were having problems getting people do respond to stuff at work and I had to explain how the average person can’t track more than one subject in a single communication chain.

  • ALostInquirer@lemm.eeEnglish
    5·
    3 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

    • MystikIncarnate@lemmy.caEnglish
      1·
      26 minutes 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·
      49 minutes ago

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

  • ChonkyOwlbear@lemmy.worldEnglish
    12·
    5 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.