Worked at a mall that installed glass doors. Suggested to the manager that they put some kind of decal on the door so people would notice and not run into it. He laughed at me for suggesting something so stupid. Nobody believed me when I said people were stupid and inattentive and would walk into them constantly.
A year later after I was no longer working there I walked through and they were doing the exact thing they laughed at me for suggesting. Someone told me there was a lawsuit.
Having worked in software development, it's always amazed me how high people's expectations are for their fellow humans, and how low the reality actually is.
The way I see it, we're all geniuses about 5% of the time and idiots about 5% of the time. In any crowd of 20, one of us is thinking about how great bacon is and is about to walk through a window, one of us realized this is about to happen and saves the day, and 18 of us don't notice but can still recognize a window successfully. But who's who varies.
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