Thanks I hate it

reality can be whatever i want

Please put an NSFW tag on this. I was on the train and when I saw this I had to start furiously masterbating. Everyone else gave me strange looks and were saying things like “what the fuck” and “call the police”. I dropped my phone and everyone around me saw this image. Now there is a whole train of men masterbating together at this one image. This is all your fault, you could have prevented this if you had just tagged this post NSFW.
Seeing this picture feels like getting a thorn out of your foot

This is a perfect example of "Not My Job" at work.

This looks more like someone did it on purpose.
They're all shifted down by one
- Moving them just one is definitely not on purpose, that happens logically when you do as little lifting as possible (Open first, when opening second move it to cover first, repeat). On purpose would be them being totally random, that would have required more work.
I feel like putting stuff back in the correct spot would fall under, "Yes, that's part of your job."
- You make the assumption that the company pays them well or treats them like human beings, rather than gaslighting them into accepting minimal pay, thus supporting the fiefdom of the C-Suite.
  No Pay, No Work. Minimal Pay, Substandard Work. Victims fight back against their abusers in passive ways at first. Consider this picture as such.
- I mean, to be fair these guys are paid the lowest dollar and subcontracted at this point. They literally aren't paid enough to make ends meet, they are too distracted worrying about their lives and family to bother worrying about some poor design that involved having movable panels crossing a pattern forcing an unnecessarily specific alignment.
Let's say your job is to check whatever is under those lids. How do you best mark it as having been done so you don't re-open the same panel multiple times?
- Open all of them... Only place cover back when you're done.
- Chalk
  rain washes it off after a few weeks
  only have to open one at a time instead of 2+
- Your loop condition fails the next street where there's a round hole without a distinguishable pattern
- You'd have to be pretty dumb to not be able to keep track of 6 lids in a line.
- Nah, they just couldn't be bothered with putting things back in the proper order, they're union workers and it's almost quitting time because OT isn't getting paid.

I like fixing these digitally.

Straight to jail
honestly the most infuriating part of this is that you didn't match the colors

As every manhole I ever saw was put back in place in such a way, that the patterns don't line up, I'm pretty sure, that the maintenance guys are doing this on purpose.

According to the very last quote in the article mentioned here:
"As someone who works in them... we do it 100% on purpose!" one man said.
I mean, I fucking would

Mr honey dew man the little dwarf waauwiee
DDHM!

I work for an telco and I have seen a lot of times that a contract for using preexisting underground infrastructure that have lids like this has a section requiring that they are returned to the same location and orientation when the enclosure is sealed.

Whoever owns that, municipality or private, will probably take a complaint about it, and may pass it to whoever is responsible or owns the plant inside.

They're trolling. It's not just that they're not paid enough to care, it's that they're so criminally underpaid, they've lost respect for everyone. If they were happy at their work, paid well, had benefits, and paid time off, and were treated well, they'd never consider trolling like this. We'd all feel like part of a community that respected and valued our input, and we'd all treat each other much better.

It's a class war, and every year there's less for us to share because the filthy rich refuse to share, and cannot be satisfied. It's about power, and what good is power if it's not exercised--wielded over others?

Holy crap you're deep in a conspiracy hole

This ruined my day, thanks.

Edit: here is some eyebleech:

Sorry, that photo isn't perfect either.
This is made from sand by monks.
- the tic-tac's were perfect, get new eyes.
- That gives me anxiety, it's too elaborate.
- Oh god, why do I suddenly feel the need to sneeze
- Oh man that just unlocked a memory! When I was in elementary school we'd have a world culture day every year and there were a couple of moms who'd do that on a table each year and I was always in awe at the intricacy and fragility of the design

I'll only accept American roads that have zero orientation issues.

Perfection

Happy cake day!
- Thank you! ☺️

Looks like your textures didn't load properly. You gotta shut down the road and restart it.

Brb, unplugging the universe for a second.

One to three and five to six will solve the puzzle. There better be a loot chest.

I expect the whole central curve to open to reveal a spiral staircase to the next level.
You found me! Yahaha

"Not my fucking job"

Which is funny because if your job requires you to touch those lids, it would be your fucking job.
This is just the work of lazy fucks or they're truly dumb as a bag of rocks.
- Or a total asshole trying to fuck the rest of us anal motherfuckers. Lol
- Two sets of lids were swapped. Those lids can be pretty heavy. Whats inside them usually are valves for plumbing.
  So after the 100th set of valves you've backflow tested that day and you're resetting the lids in 100F+ degree heat and you turn around as you're walking away with your gear that you swapped two lids?
  Well, having done this work at two different times in my life: the size of paycheck matters decidedly on whether that's getting fixed.
- Dumb or lazy? Why not just apathetic?
"Not payed enough to care"

I realized the lids are not wrong just not placed in the right spot.

Yeah it is that comedian work colleague putting them back in the wrong place for a laugh.

Somebody spent time properly paving these covers so that they don't interrupt the pattern, then later someone didn't spent one second trying to put them back the way they were

didn’t spent one second
They did, and took pictures.
I love it when someone replaces manhole covers upside down or the lines in the road painted on the cover are off kilter
- It activates the technician part of my brain and I'm left wondering what the symbol is for on the piping diagram.

Where's c/notmyjob

I was going to create it, but, you know...

These are fully intentional.

I kind of like it. It's all trippy, in like an artistic sort of way.

I'm ashamed we share the same planet

if you put them on in the right order a korok pops out and gives you a seed

YATTA

This isn't mildly infuriating it's very infuriating! I'm genuinely quite cross

Someone geolocate this so we can go and fix it!
- get ~~rainman~~ rainbolt on the case

theres no way this was laziness....

.....this is malice in its purest chaos....

It's somehow worse imo, why is there 1 random correct one?!

I think 2 are actually in the correct spot. It's just looks wrong because the two next to it are swapped.
- Oh yeah, I looked at this for way too long and didn't see that

This screams UK or Ireland. I see shit like this all the time!

Yep, it's Bridgford. There is a rather hilarious article about local complaints.
The fact that this is a news article about a mundane social media post is another issue I won't go into lol

at least they got one right

Someone went through all the trouble of carefully making everything match, only for others to not care enough to put in 0.1% of that effort and keep it in order when they work on it.

Seems like a great analogy for my work experience these days.

Somehow I can just tell where this photo was taken.

That is the most British looking paving slams I've ever seen.

If you were the one being underpaid to do his job, you would do the same.

depends on how exhausted I am already on that day, but honestly probably not. I try not to go above and beyond for my employer without some kind of agreed upon compensation but stuff like this I'd do right just for my own satisfaction
- Putting shit back the way you found it is not "above and beyond"

Lol, OP is this in the UK? I have a feeling it might.

Just a glitch

A son of a glitch.

I like it somehow.

The more I'm looking at it, the more I actually love it! It breaks this boring monotony.

Same, I find this one very pleasing

where in the UK is this lmao

When the background doesn’t render correctly.

One is placed correctly by accident. The indifference is just so beautiful.

*wipes I tear.

I think both (counting from the top) number 2 and 4 are placed correctly.
- Yup, swap 1 & 3 and 5 & 6 and 😘👌
  The person who made the panels was super careful

design challenge: invent a treatment for these access lids that allows them to be swapped around while remaining aesthetically pleasing. it occurred to me that some physical forcing function might keep them in the right order also...

https://www.instagram.com/reel/CJ7WbCHg3xz/

Nice. But I prefer this one.
- This cracks me up every time.

It looks like a Mario stage.

I love it

It's quite poetic innit

Imagine being an architect or engineer… fancy office, sweet ass car, six figures… and you sit down one day to engineer “where should we put the access panels?” or “where should we but the divider pavers?” and THIS was your solution.

I'm paid to fix what's under the covers cover aesthetics is not in my job description

Same bro

Someone thought of you folks when doing this.

I don't know why but when I look at this I feel uneasy and something inside me whispers: what the hell, what kind of nonsense is this?

This is art, this is something AI can't do yet!
- That's the most important thing now. But then AI will replace reality and blur the truth, so you'll still have to touch the grass with your hands if you want something real in the future.

Apple's Liquid Glass be like

If someone argues against the death penalty, show them this image

go out at night and fix it, bring a friend and a crowbar

These "shitty design" pics are fun, we need more

This isn’t a design problem. It’s a maintenance problem. The panels were put back in the wrong order.
If they swap panels 1&2 and then 4&6, the design would be fine.

I low key love it.

bet they magats.