• Ananääs@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    8·
    3 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·
    4 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.

    • Vlyn@lemmy.zipEnglish
      2·
      26 minutes ago

      It’s even worse than that:

      21% of adults in the US are illiterate in 2024. 54% of adults have a literacy below a 6th-grade level (20% are below 5th-grade level).

      So 1/5 can’t read at all, and over HALF can’t read better than an 11 year old.

  • Mandy@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    9·
    6 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.

    • ano_ba_to@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      2·
      3 hours ago

      There are some levels to “without thinking about it”. You miss some things. You just aren’t aware when you do. Your brain will get tired at some point in the day and will adjust its capacity/willingness to get into detail, unless you’re not human.

    • Breadhax0r@lemmy.worldEnglish
      7·
      7 hours 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
        3·
        6 hours 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.

    • Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.techEnglish
      3·
      6 hours 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

  • ALostInquirer@lemm.eeEnglish
    9·
    8 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·
      6 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·
      6 hours ago

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

  • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️@yiffit.netEnglish
    321·
    11 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
        25·
        9 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.”

  • ChonkyOwlbear@lemmy.worldEnglish
    14·
    10 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.