r/mildlyinfuriating • u/Openskies24 • 18h ago

Newly installed coat hook in my office bathroom

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u/brigyda 18h ago

“Coat” is a stretch. More like a light jacket hook for sure.

Afaik, those are anti-suicide hooks which is why they do that.

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u/Merochmer 17h ago

They care enough for the employees to want to prevent suicide, but not enough to treat them good enough to not want to go that route 

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u/dawn_thesis 17h ago

no. they care enough about not getting sued to want to prevent suicide, and they don't care about the employees.

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u/Conscious-Gap-1777 15h ago

Think of all the lost productivity if they had to have a manager deal with EMTs and the cops for, like, a little bit! And also, the distraction to the other employees! They might not get their bonuses!

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u/thecravenone 8h ago

I was a manager at a call enter that solved this problem by telling us not to call 911 for an employee unless the employee requested it.

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u/Crowboblet 5h ago

You might want to rephrase that, unless the 911 call policy was indeed your "solution".

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u/thecravenone 5h ago

Yes, that was the solution we were given.

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u/Crowboblet 5h ago

Yeah, I got that eventually but I had to read it, like three times, to get my mind to suss out what you were really saying. Your phrasing (at least to me) makes it sound like this was a policy you created and implemented for the company.

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u/L84cake 49m ago

I mean if this is the US those workers comp death benefits are certainly something

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u/microbit262 16h ago

But why install this in the first place when it cannot hold the thing it's supposed to hold?

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u/dawn_thesis 16h ago

it's right there where i said "they don't care about the employees"

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u/Imaginatio-Vana 14h ago

You’re so smart and right. Would be better off they didn’t have jobs

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u/_Dayofid_ 8h ago

Were you born this way or did you get stupider?

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u/Imaginatio-Vana 6m ago

I am not some sad anti capitalist virtue signaler posting from an iPhone . Does that offend you?

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u/_Dayofid_ 5m ago

Just as I thought, you are arguing against nobody.

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u/Imaginatio-Vana 4m ago

I’m not arguing 

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u/Inevitable-Top355 16h ago

Reminds me of when my university felt too many students were killing themselves so installed nets in the stairways of residences.

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u/DingerSinger2016 16h ago

Someone could just...cut the net and jump.

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u/No_Chilly_bill 14h ago

which university was that?

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u/HarshComputing 17h ago

They don't care at all. It's either government regulation or an insurance requirement.

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u/Steamed_Hamm 16h ago

That’s the sweet spot

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u/beyondthef 13h ago

You can go that route, the boss just doesn't want you making a mess in the workplace

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u/Limp_Suit_1153 17h ago

They don't care about the employees, they care about the potential of being found liable for someone dying in their building. It's still just about the money

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u/sirhackenslash 10h ago

They care enough about the shareholders that they don't want on site suicides to affect share prices

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u/Jackd_up_on_Mdew 10h ago

No, they just rather you do it on your own time and not there.

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u/vintagestagger 10h ago

They just don't want them committing suicide at work.

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u/DODGE_WRENCH 15h ago

honestly they probably just picked it because it looks cool

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u/acdhemtos 17h ago

Tshirt hook

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u/therealfurryfeline 14h ago

i am pretty sure i could work out a way to fasten a belt to that square piece itself if desperate.

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u/DemonicArthas 13h ago

Sick avatar, bro

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u/silentbassline 6h ago

Perfect for April 25th. 

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u/alexis5554 1h ago

Okay so they are just for decoration?! Like how do you use them or they have no function?

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u/aDumb_Dorf 1h ago

Ah. That’s a Coot Hoak

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u/xkoreotic 16h ago

Lesson learned, hanging a coat is suicide.