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Originally Posted by Mark Sheridan
Here is my rebuttal:
1) It's not necessary - go to a crowded Costco or grocery store and see how many people yell "shopping cart"
2) It's arrogant - Yelling robot is blatantly saying that you want people to move instead of you, the right thing is to give the person the opportunity to decide to be polite and move out of their own kindness.
3) It's obnoxious - Don't even think of comparing this to yelling "fire", a robot is not going to be that dangerous, besides one should be control of one robot, again got to a grocery store and observe this. The robot on a cart is not that important, thus yelling "robot" is obnoxious
4) It's rude - most people do not appreciate getting yelled in ear. If you have to at least say "excuse me."
5) It creates excessive noise. - music in the pits is a hinderance, especially when you are try to hear a air leak. This does not excuse rude behavior.
6) It startles bystanders - so most of us are elementary school children? Again most people will be startled when yelled at.
7) It turns off the general public - i have guests comment negatively a lot. That because no other industry behaves this way, except maybe rock concerts and security at rock concerts don't have a sterling reputations (technically a broad spectrum of fantastic to intolerable actions).
8) It starts a chain reaction of other teams yelling for no apparent reason - I lost count how many time people yell "robot" after the robot has past. No one needs an entire team to yell when one person would be enough and that person should at lease say "excuse me."
9) With repetition, it becomes white noise and loses all meaning - I am ignoring it, my team is ignoring it, my guests are learning to ignore it because its yelled so frequently and often without a robot near us.
10) It does little to make anyone safer in any way, and may even create a hazard - see 9.
11) It gives teams a false sense of entitlement that others will drop everything to move out of their way - everyone has their own priorities, yelling to show yours is more important is rude. Again you have to let others decide that you have greater priority, denying that shows that you don't care what they think, you just want them to move and thats rude in my opinion.
I really do think quieter pits would fix this. I really like pits in separate buildings even if its a hike to get where you are going.
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Let me address this simply, why do you think its rude? I see if its rude if you seen a team yell if the walkways are clear... but in most cases theres a minority doing that.
Second problem: can we say Bill of Rights violation? The word robot hasn't harmed you or anyone in any way, allowing organizations to limit our speech will do a lot more.
I wish more FIRST volunteers were here to comment but they prefer robot because it is the fastest way, even if a team is late getting to the field. Honestly, they do have greater priority of other people, its not the team that thinks that, its whoever created the match sequence.
All who thinks this petition is moot say "I"
Edit: To the many people who say they are ignoring the word intentionally: you are the problem, honestly, we wouldn't need to say it if you weren't in the way and the fact that you aren't going to move on purpose is arrogant and shouldn't be done