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  • #16
    Quoth Bunny the Veggie Slayer View Post
    At the start of September we had horrendous rain. It overflowed (overflew?) the guttering above the automatic doors and shorted them out. We came up with the high tech solution of a sheet of A4 with "push" written on it. On Sundays we close a 4pm due to the trading laws here, but staff were in filling shelves until 9pm.

    They told me the next day that they started timing how long a customer would stand there pushing at the doors and looking at the sign confused before giving up.


    Apparently it can take 24 minutes and 19 seconds to realise a door isn't going to open.
    yes but you should know by now the majority of SC's don't read.

    at my hospital we have no less than THREE signs alerting patients that they have indeed reached the 'xray' department (signs are in bright yellow with black lettering in theory very hard to miss. at about eye level for the average person).

    yet (we watch on a CCTV so we know when people have reached our waiting area) it'll be a game for me and my coworkers to see just how LONG it takes some people to realized A. yes they've reached xray, read the sign 2 inches in front of your face B. have a seat (as intended on the sign).

    we've seen some people go wandering away down the hall and had to chase them down. (the best is when they have obviously READ the sign (seen on the cctv) and then chose to wander down teh hall anyways)
    Common sense... So rare it's a goddamn superpower.

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    • #17
      I used to find it funny when I worked at a bowling center. Our doors were tinted, so when the lights were low people could hardly see in, but you could see out and watch them. They would try to open the door - look at the posted hours - then look at their watch -and then forcibly pull on the door which wouldn't open. Took some of those idiots 10+ minutes to figure out we were closed and I didn't give a shit if they were out there or not. Ahhh the memories of that place.

      The only part of it still around is a copy of the keys on an old chain (they built a new one and tore the old building down).

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      • #18
        At the swamp, closing time is the time to offer the best customer service possible. As in go up to shoppers in the store and say "Hiiiiiii! Can I help you find something?"

        (Like, for example, the exit?) And then just follow them around like a puppy dog.

        In my job, that's about all you can do. You can't just tell people to GTFO or FOAD. You have to find other ways to make the late lookie-loos feel uncomfortable and decide it's time to leave.
        Knowledge is power. Power corrupts. Study hard. Be evil.

        "I never said I wasn't a horrible person."--Me, almost daily

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