WTF-O-meter

[wraggster]

http://hackadaycom.files.wordpress.com/2009/07/wtf-button.jpg

Here’s something every office probably needs. Ours does at least. It’s a WTF counter. When the office gets just a little too weird, someone hits the button and it gets logged. It’s probably pretty easy to judge the day by the WTF chart. The button is connected to an Arduino that updates the status on a local web server. We can imagine a nice bar graph of WTFs per day, or possibly a pie chart with normal time vs WTF time. Unfortunately, imagining is all we’re going to do. They didn’t include any examples of the visualizations. Can you imagine saying something to a co worker just for them to promptly march over and slap the WTF button? Maybe we don’t need one.

http://hackaday.com/2009/07/03/wtf-o-meter/

[VampDude]

Funnily enough, that is an Emergency Stop button... Which is often found in industrial workplaces, mainly to stop machinery.

It's amusing to think that someone went to the effort to screw it to that wall, then print out "WTF?!?" and slap it next to the button. It's probably attached to an alarm (a horned one?), which is what gives it the "WTF-O-Meter" tagline. :D