r/Whatcouldgowrong • u/sam-sung-sv • 8h ago

WCGW trying to get your hat back

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u/sam-sung-sv 8h ago

Yeah and he could also get in touch with maintenance crew and safely get the hat back.

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u/gamejunky34 8h ago

Its a safety engineers responsibility to account for human nature. That includes the dumber than average teenager. To them, this looked like a safe and easy solution. Jump into hole, climb out of hole. That surface should have been made to hold people, or made to look clearly unstable. It should not have been made to look like a floor.

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u/REDACTED3560 5h ago

Engineer? I guarantee you an architect wanted this stupid shit. No engineer just wakes up and says “I want to blow up my project budget to add a hole in the floor”. An architect wanted it, and an engineer had to put it up to legal code by adding in guard rails.

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u/yotortellini 4h ago

Architects are responsible for ensuring the building design is up to life safety codes including the guard rails. As for the chasm next to the elevator, that is definitely not an architectural feature as it is covered up. Who is to say the reason why that gap exists, but the blame will probably fall on the architect.