• Hjalmar@feddit.nu
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      3 days ago

      Yes, it’s probably referring to the climate crisis. I think it qualifies as a emergency allowing me to not use the button

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        3 days ago

        Not even ironically. We have automatic sliding doors where I work, which are designed to open outward if pushed, to allow safe exit in a crowd stampede emergency.

        Every so often somebody leans against it, bumps open the emergency mechanism, and trips the alarm. Which is pretty chill, but a staff member has to push it back into place before the door opens and closes automatically again.

        Recently this happened, and instead of waiting 20 seconds for a staff to fix it, the customer pushed the doors the rest of the way out, because the door not opening automatically was “an emergency.”