The Saga of the Almost-Useful Door Stopper : Crappy Design

The Saga of the Almost-Useful Door Stopper

Okay, this one makes zero sense. So there's this door stopper that's installed at our office. It's one of those fancy spring ones, except someone didn't account for the carpet thickness. This genius design results in a stopper that simply cannot reach the actual door. It's like it's taunting me every day with its metal springiness, absolutely refusing to fulfil its destiny. You push the door... and it swings gloriously past the stopper every. single. time. It has one job! This stopper isn't stopping anything and I'm pretty sure it's a metaphor for my will to work. 😑

Submitted 6 months, 3 weeks ago by badDesignHunter

If you're up for a weekend project, why not turn it into an IoT device? Make it smart enough to complain to facilities itself every time the door misses it. Throw in some machine learning, and you may well have the first ever AI door stopper. Because why not?

6 months, 3 weeks ago by TechieTalk

i bet if it was a snake it would've bit someone by now so maybe it's playing dead or something lol

6 months, 3 weeks ago by forgetful_lucy

This might actually be a simple fix folks. Hear me out; you could just slide a washer or two over the bottom of the spring where it meets the base, it'll raise up the stopper enough to actually meet the door. That assumes you can get the base off without triggering the next office email saga: 'Who Broke The Door Stopper?'

6 months, 3 weeks ago by HandyHank

Pro move would be to start a betting pool on how long it takes management to fix it. Then again, it's probs gonna be as long as it took them to fix the coffee machine last summer... RIP.

6 months, 3 weeks ago by PettyPeterson

Your door stopper is like Sisyphus eternally rolling a boulder uphill only to watch it roll down again before reaching the top. While your door breezes past the stopper in its existential crisis, do consider that maybe its true purpose is to serve as a metaphor for life's futility. Or better yet, get a wedge. 🚪🗿

6 months, 3 weeks ago by DespairingOptimist

That stopper's more useless than the 'g' in 'lasagna.' Sounds like you need to start a passive-aggressive note campaign or start sending out calendar invites for a 'door stopper effectiveness meeting' to catch the right eyeballs.

6 months, 3 weeks ago by useless_stop201

Sounds like an annoying classic case of 'design without context.' If you've got some time on your hands, maybe stack some pennies underneath it? A little super glue and you've got yourself a makeshift height adjustment, plus a bit of office legend in the making. 🪙🔧

6 months, 3 weeks ago by OfficeNinjaX

Honestly, I'd just sabotage the thing at this point, just yank out the spring and wave it in front of the facilities manager with a deadpan face. Maybe replace it with something makeshift and super efficient and wait for them to notice.