@Natasha_Jay That's the back of my computer desk.

@Natasha_Jay I think my brain would be constantly switching between expecting parts of it to shear off, and trying to avoid stepping on any "cracks".

That style on like a wall, to look more like geological strata might look cool.

@Natasha_Jay

@Natasha_Jay ::mentally trying to cable-manage the carpet::
... is this Hotel California-Silicon Valley???

@Natasha_Jay More like - get it sorted heaven!!!

@Natasha_Jay I'd wake up in the middle of the night and start taping them down.

@Natasha_Jay I’m neither but still this carpet is awful

@Natasha_Jay OH GOD YES. I AM BOTH. *twitch*

@Natasha_Jay holy crap that's terrible. I'd be walking on tippy toes all the time.

@Natasha_Jay I seriously thought it was a room pic from DefCon and kept looking for the equipment

@Natasha_Jay
A senior's nightmare! ("
trip" to hospital)

@Natasha_Jay @Probertd8 Aaarrgh! Where’s my gaffa?

@Natasha_Jay My hands get sweaty just looking at it.

@Natasha_Jay I had to go find my gaffer tape to calm down.

@Natasha_Jay

Haha,
Yeah I usually try to run them along the baseboards.
You know a roll of gaffers tape can do wonders

@Natasha_Jay
You're exactly right, Those things should be taped down so no one trips over them.

@Natasha_Jay It's the little channels of blank beige, like old (inappropriate) tape adhesive that's gotten covered by dust over the years, around each exposed "cable" that kills me.

If this was my actual carpet, I can guarantee you that the "empty" spots between the cables would wear thin within like a year, as there are only so many places to put my foot down without possibly stepping on a cable or picking one up on my foot on the next step.

@Natasha_Jay Instantly took my feet up - I‘m neither network nor audio nor any other engineer.

@Natasha_Jay Add some silver duct tape to sort it out!

@Natasha_Jay AHHHHHH

@Natasha_Jay Nothing that gaffer tape can't fix.

@Natasha_Jay I am both and my brain is doing backflips and failing to land them right now

@Natasha_Jay I would trip every second step, just because I’d be expecting to 😭

@Natasha_Jay just EPIC 😂

@Natasha_Jay My brain was all mad "Where the @*&^%@ is the gaffer tape???'" before I realized this was a pattern.

@Natasha_Jay If the hotel doesn't have a similar picture on their webpage or Booking does not list this in their offer: I smell a lawsuit.

@Natasha_Jay Or, y’know, just in general… 👀

@Natasha_Jay i would trip just by looking while walking.

@Natasha_Jay don't think i could maneuver through here without subconsciously doing the "cables on the floor" walk

@Natasha_Jay perfect, you will never know when you'll trip over a wire, or if it's just the carpet.

@Natasha_Jay Thanks I hate it.

@Natasha_Jay OMG I was like "why is your hotel room under construction?" for 5 minutes staring at this picture trying to make sense out of it... Than I read the text 😅

@Natasha_Jay Too few for a network engineer.

@Natasha_Jay whyyyyyyyyyyy

@Natasha_Jay I'm neither as of current and I still hate this omg. I really don't like Hotel carpets. I don't know if it's my autism or my OCD, or both, but every hotel carpet pattern I've ever looked at has annoyed me. This might be one of the worst ones. But I've seen ones where it's just like a bunch of circles and I hate those too. Sometimes they interlock, sometimes they don't. With no rhyme or reason. CHOOSE ONE!

@Natasha_Jay
"I need carpet for my hotel."

"What kind of vibe are you going for?"

"The floor underneath someone's desk."

"Say no more."

@Natasha_Jay

LOL

Mine just looks like that. No need for special carpet.

@Natasha_Jay
Reminds me.. Worked for a computer service company, early 90s, it was mostly RS232 serial terminals, with a bit of ARCNET between the servers. So much ended up connected by flat ribbon cable placed under the carpet tiles! This was a new build, designed by the company owner, and he didn't include any provision for computer cabling! Phones, yes, but no data. We were pinning trunking to the walls within the first week of moving in..

@Natasha_Jay
Even if you are Not: this is drivin‘ you nuts.

@Natasha_Jay is it possible to psychosomatically trip over something?

@Natasha_Jay 😧

@Natasha_Jay
…that's @podstock, right?

@Natasha_Jay

Ugh. That looks like it was bring your kid to work day at the carpet factory, some toddler got hold of a permanent marker, then went to town as the carpet was getting spooled up.

@Natasha_Jay My first intuition after seeing the image, before reading the text, was:

"Someone should clean that up" and then I read ...

@Natasha_Jay

looks like a dog dragged his butt across the carpet 🤢

@Natasha_Jay @RebelGeek99 My immediate impulse is “Noooooo!” 😅

@Natasha_Jay This design is a crime

@Natasha_Jay I love it so much!

@Natasha_Jay Had to blink my eyes twice… almost fooled me!

@Natasha_Jay nnnnnnnghhhhhh

@Natasha_Jay definitely not low vision friendly

@Natasha_Jay me: I don't understand. That carpet looks ok underneath those wir... Oh.

@Natasha_Jay NEED

@Natasha_Jay@tech.lgbt as an ex audio engineer, thx I hate this.

@Natasha_Jay you should put some real cables to make the look more impressive. 😆

@Natasha_Jay
What the fluff? :blobcateyes:
This is photoshoped? No, it's a real carpet. :blobcatfacepalm2:

@Natasha_Jay Was a network engineer and I've cleaned up worse, but still :screams internally:

@Natasha_Jay Terrified. And uneasy

@Natasha_Jay thanks I hate it

@Natasha_Jay

Stawp. Please. This will be giving me nightmares for a week :flan_nooo:

@Natasha_Jay@tech.lgbt didn't even know it was a carpet even after reading your post, until I read the alt text 😭

@Natasha_Jay@tech.lgbt i wanna be a video producer one day... and this carpet drives me insane

@Natasha_Jay NSFW

@Natasha_Jay
Wondering what hotel 'brand' this is. Just because a designer has an opinion of how things should 'look', it doesn't mean that they have any real life sense.

@Natasha_Jay I saw it as a model railway track layout 🤣

@Natasha_Jay I'm a consultant and this looks billable to me.

@Natasha_Jay 🤣

@Natasha_Jay
The good old coax days!

@Natasha_Jay @smitty I want a short roll of this to secretly deploy to NOCs during cons.

@Natasha_Jay 🤣

@Natasha_Jay

@wurzelmann

@Natasha_Jay Or anyone who trips over things or has a migraine.

@Natasha_Jay As an SWE/SRE this is pissing me off. And I only do my home network and other cabling :RageShooky:

@Natasha_Jay Nah. Pretty standard.

@Natasha_Jay
Carpet from hell. Who designed this? What was this person thinking? "Wow, I'm an artist".

@Natasha_Jay

@Natasha_Jay That is the tech equivalent of the "red is a calming color" hospital floor.

@Natasha_Jay and this is why engineers don't get a service revolver anymore.