Annoying Technology: Touchless Bathrooms

The most annoying bit of technology that I found from the list would have to be touchless bathroom installments.

I work in the kitchen of a restaurant. For the workers’ “convenience”, all of the soap, sanitizer and paper towel dispensers are automatic, touchless devices. This would be great and help prevent cross contamination, amongst other things...IF THEY EVERY FUCKING WORKED!!

I can’t recall the numerous amounts of times that I have place my hand under a filled soap dispenser to was my hands and receive no soap. The same can be said for sanitizer and paper towel dispensers.  To make the situation even more frustrating, half the time the soap dispenses after you pull your hand away in anger. Many times the motion sensors are faulty at best.  This isn’t all necessarily at my job, but in bathrooms elsewhere as well.  Sinks and soap dispensers only occasionally work correctly for me.  There is always at least a minor portion of trial and error.

Another inconvenience of these contraptions is stocking. You have to press a billion buttons to get the damn things open and unwrap an equal number of things to refill soap or paper towels.  Far from convenient.  I would MUCH rather use paper towels on the old fashioned, no fucking improvement needed, paper towel roll. It’s almost like someone invented a simple dispensing mechanism for these things on purpose...

But surely enough, humans will be humans. Nothing is fast or convenient enough for us ever. The thirst cannot be quenched. We go out of our way to make intricate contraptions that either end up not working at all or proving to be more difficult to use than their predecessors.