I’m in the fucking emergency department. I’m not feeling very grateful right now. Read the room.
A great example of toxic positivity, that shit sucks.
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.
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.
Here in Brazil, some time ago, people started to say “gratitude” instead of “thank you”. Annoying as fuck
Let’s turn that frown upsidedown.
Haves a heart attack
Ahh yes i need to invite peace and gratitude into my heart.
I didn’t even consider how many people with cardiac issues must be looking at that screen.
the Kahlil Gibran quote smells fake
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.
it is beneficial to calm down for some things, as in, when blood is leaking out, or your problem is downwind of stress, but i don’t think rage counts as calming down
"You’ve tried paying exorbitantly
Now try being grateful we even let you in here you little shits"
The rain one is a subtle “Look, it could be worse. Stay positive. You aren’t dead yet.”
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.
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.
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.
Copyright 1968. Hmm, determined or not, that cat must be long dead.
