I’m in the fucking emergency department. I’m not feeling very grateful right now. Read the room.

    • Snot Flickerman
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      I guarantee you the people who actually work at the hospital hate them as much as the patients, if not moreso.

      These were put in place by a hospital administration that gets paid way more than the doctors to waste time doing exactly stuff like this, while claiming they deserve to be paid so much more because of how much value their leadership brings the hospital.

      • Boozilla
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        Bosses like that think every problem can be solved with “better motivation” and a “can-do attitude”. They are the main reason everything sucks. You can’t pep talk failing infrastructure into fixing itself, you dumb mother fuckers.

    • Michel Recondo 👾
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      Here in Brazil, some time ago, people started to say “gratitude” instead of “thank you”. Annoying as fuck

    • don
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      Cat’s got the look like, “This is the 75th fucking take, Jerry, for fuck’s sake, how many more is it gonna goddamn take?!

      • Dr. Wesker
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        He’s got a sweet lil baby one orange braincell face.

  • @[email protected]
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    ls this meant for the staff or for the patients?

    Either way it is time to talk to the responsible person to make it clear that this is neither appropriate nor helpful (and perhaps suggest some alternatives).

    • the post of tom joad
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      (and perhaps suggest some alternatives).

      But i don’t think they’ll want this tv up their ass

  • @RookiA
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    Haves a heart attack

    Ahh yes i need to invite peace and gratitude into my heart.

    • @GraniteMOP
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      I didn’t even consider how many people with cardiac issues must be looking at that screen.

    • @Etterra
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      I mean if I have one I’ll bet grateful if it kills me, but then again I take seven pills a day to stop myself from dramatically accelerating the process.

  • @JusticeForPorygon
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    Sounds like you just need to learn to dance in the rain

    • @apocalypticat
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      this would unironically make me feel like I succeeded

  • YeetPics
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    "You’ve tried paying exorbitantly

    Now try being grateful we even let you in here you little shits"

  • Rhaedas
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    The rain one is a subtle “Look, it could be worse. Stay positive. You aren’t dead yet.”

    • themeatbridge
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      Unless you were struck by lightning whilst dancing in the rain, in which case this motivational image does not constitute legal, medical, or financial advice. Dance in the rain at your own risk.

  • magnetosphere
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    Maybe they want you to be grateful that you could actually get to a hospital, instead of just suffering in the street? “Count your blessings”, instead of focusing on the negative stuff?

    You’re right, though. This isn’t a great message for an emergency room.

  • N3Cr0
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    91 month ago

    Stay positive and count the days until “weekend”.

    • @[email protected]
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      Yes but you’ll need to intercept the HDMI cable with a beefy microcontroller to turn it back on when displaying patient data again so you don’t get fired. At this point, I’d be looking to disable the corresponding software if the computer is accessible.

  • @Veedem
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    I mean I’m sure your situation sucks, but I can’t believe this could be even mildly infuriating. Should they have a space screen saver? Should they have images that remind people how fucked they might be? It’s cheesy shit, sure, but sheesh.

    • @[email protected]
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      I can’t imagine getting worked up about it either, but then the whole mildly infuriating deliberate oxymoron turn of phrase is that it’s something that should only really be a little annoying but which nonetheless is really quite annoying. It’s a type of silent frustration where you feel it, but you don’t really express it or visibly react.

      In terms of what should they have put on these screens? If they felt they absolutely had to do this or really thought it might help make people’s situations feel even a modicum of improvement, then the glib messages could maybe have focussed on something other than gratitude as their common theme. It hardly seems like the appropriate time to bring that up. By their nature, any cheesy and overly broad phrase is probably going to have a sadly ironic and patronising tone to it in the circumstances but maybe something like “hang in there” or just about anything except what they went with has got to better.

  • @die444die
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    Wouldn’t these be more directed at the employees of the ER and not the patients?