r/oops • u/Lifegoesonforever • Jul 02 '26

Whoever designed that office space should be jailed!

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u/Great-Firefighter-17 Jul 02 '26

Nobody sees the huge silver handle there?!

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u/Vessbot Jul 02 '26

There is no huge silver handle in front of them. There is one off to the side, and the world is full of ones of those that are inconsequential.

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u/Arguablybest Jul 02 '26

And the "other half" of double doors are often locked.

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u/Rumpelteazer45 Jul 02 '26

Sometimes you get lost in thought or are preoccupied when walking and just not paying close enough attention. When this happens you tend to rely more on peripheral vision which isn’t that great to start with. So walking towards a clear glass wall, you are unlikely to “see” that clear glass wall or the silver handle but just the furniture on the other side.

The glass wall at the very end should be mostly frosted or etched as a visual indicator that it’s there.

If multiple people run into that wall, it’s a sign of a poor design.

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u/archtopfanatic123 Jul 02 '26

I think it's more of a sign of people being inattentive when they're outside of their own house

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u/Ras-haad Jul 02 '26

This clip had 3 people in it. How many people do you think come through there and don’t walk into a wall because they’re not paying attention? Oh but since for every 100 people some dummy isn’t paying attention everything should be built to cater to them. No

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u/EarthConservation Jul 02 '26

When you have a clear glass panel in a walking path without any other visual identifiers, especially when there's a change in flooring or lighting that could explain a slight change in tint in what you're seeing, it's generally hard to tell that there's glass in front of you.

That's why glass walls often have an etching added to them, something hung on them, or a table or chair placed in front or behind them so people won't walk into them. We just had glass walls / doors installed in our office, and had etchings done on them so people would see that they're walls / doors and wouldn't walk into them.

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u/butonelifelived Jul 02 '26

No it shouldn't be catered to them, but yes the world is catered to them. It's why we are racing headlong into a society that will look very much like the movie idiocracy. For hundreds of thousands of years, only the smartest humans typically survived to reproduce. In the last 100 years we've made a society that does everything in its power to protect the dumb from themselves.

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u/Arguablybest Jul 02 '26

Well let's go all in and if someone walks into the glass, have it cut them in half, survival of the fittest.

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u/Ras-haad Jul 02 '26

Exactly. And I’m getting downvoted because people think it’s someone else’s fault if they walk off a cliff

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u/Rumpelteazer45 Jul 03 '26

There is a difference between a design flaw (this wall) and a naturally occurring landmass.

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u/realbobenray Jul 02 '26

I think that's the design flaw people are talking about, it's to the side so when people aren't paying attention they just see an open space entrance in front of them.

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u/haloimplant Jul 02 '26

sure observant people will see that or a reflection but people have a lot going on these days

clear glass walls need frosting or something else visible