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Bikeshedding - where people feel the need to give feedback even when none is needed, resulting in inane comments about things that don’t matter.
Pro tip, if you’re a software engineer, especially working on UIs - leave something annoying on your UI in the demo. Something small enough to not be a huge deal but big enough so that an exec or director would notice it. Make a button slightly too big, or the width of a divider too large. They’ll call that out, feel like they contributed, and likely the entire demo will be spent talking about the inane thing on the page. Then go fix the 2-ish lines of code and move on with your day.
Your tip is also known as The Queen’s Duck.
Illustrators know this as the “hairy arm”: adding an undesirable minor detail to give the art director something with whose removal they can put their stamp on the project, without wrecking the rest of it or making too much work for the artist.
I was working at a company, where many employees at the office whined about temperature of their rooms, so I finally decided to put every room a controller and tucked the cable away somewhere under the skirting board or something. The controller wasn’t working, but everyone was able to set it to their preferred temperature, and the complaints stopped.
How did you provide the necessary 24V power to these?
E: Oh nvm, you made this up
E2: you also did not run any cables under a skirting board or “something” because if this actually happened it was you who attached the wires… because thermostats only come with bare terminals as the signaling wires and power wires are snaked through the walls and connected to the furnace or controller. If your story is to be believed, you went out and bought a bunch of thermostats, then went out and bought a bunch of random wires to connect to them. (This should also cover your anticipated lie that they were not digital).
E3: the notion that you would have an adjustable temperature setting, while the thermostat ALSO displays the present room temperature, and you just glossing past the idea that nobody’s going to notice. Additionally, the idea that some busybody is going to allow them to sit there with nothing said is sheer madness. It’s almost like you’ve never had a job in a real office.
I fucking cannot stand people like you. Stop making up BS because you’re lonely.
Just playing devil’s advocate, but if the story is old enough then they could’ve been rotary style, and they pulled a wire to sell the effect (I’ve done the same thing with fake surveillance cameras).
Exactly…you don’t need to supply 24vdc if there’s no display to power, just a dial that does nothing but satisfies the user.
I covered that possible lie in my expansive bullshit call out. You either did not read or you do not understand.
Go check it out, you might come to believe that I’ve installed maybe a hundred of these and actually know what I’m talking about.
How old are you?
In the 80s and 90s, thermostats had physical dials and mechanical temperature metres that did not require power. They only had two terminals for sending a signal to the controller of the furnace.
This is one. They were everywhere until the mid to late 2000s.
producers and engineers do this to musicians too, pretending to turn up the monitor mix on the console while looking at the artist until they signal “ok”
My mom used to do faux decorative wall painting for rich clients. They would pick a sample and she would paint the walls to match but she found that they often complained after the work was done, even when it was exactly what they wanted.
She ended up getting a spray bottle with water that had a bit of food coloring and called it a “toning layer” that she would spray on the wall. It didn’t change anything but it made the clients think their feedback mattered, she said it almost always worked and they’d be elated afterwards.
In the same idea, artist will give the clients multiple samples with one being terrible to help them select the better options.
Except sometimes they selected it and thus hilarious examples of modern art and corporate identity were brought to light
This doesn’t always work. Sometimes clients pick the terrible option. T_T
That’s why you always hide a duck in it
As a writer, I wish I could do this. But they’ll notice if the text is still exactly the same.
Have you considered trying italics ?
Maybe I should try submitting the same text, but in a different font…
