Mark the Grad Student, Dr. Walters
The people that I work with seem to have some aversion to actually stopping their timers from beeping once they go off. It usually only goes on for about a minute but it’s one hell of a grating noise for that minute. I am often tempted to go bash the things with a hammer, or, you know, just turn it off, but when they’re sitting two feet away from it and not bothering to turn it off, what can you do?
Unattended cell phones too – surely the point of a cell phone is to have it with you. One in my office with a ringtone of “What about me?” nearly got silenced in a bucket of water a few times.
I can relate. In the restaurant business times go off all the time. What suprises me is how many of them are ignored. In my case this is why I turn up my headphones, so I don’t have to hear them.
nice use of multiple exposures on frame 9
doc, just bash it with a hammer. it will shut the stupid thing off for good.
Hammers just mean some genius might come along and fix it again. I think he should’ve used a flamethrower. It takes true genius to reassemble a melted-down object.
turn it off once and ask ‘em to do it them selves in the future, turn it off twice and show them how to do it, third time pick it up and throw it in to the hallway.
Fourth time pick it up and throw it at them.
i just love the questioning beep just before it’s smashed.
“Do they speak English in ‘beep’?”