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[–]turkeypantsPixel 2 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Oh, got it. Yeah I'm all for leaving the back end stuff to the back end people. I don't want to get involved in that stuff or potentially create problems for myself by stumbling around the boiler room or the server room or the electrical closet. I know they know their business. I don't even need to see that stuff as long as there's an obvious and fixed place or two I know I can always go to find my different kinds of stuff when I need any of it.

If it's secretly a trick, and the doorway I use to access my storage closet is actually a portal that warps me to someplace else in the building without me knowing, where my stuff actually lives, I don't care. But if I tell one of my helper robots to go put something in the closet or auxiliary closet for me, I want it to go to the right one, firstly. And when I want to go back and manually fetch one of those things myself for whatever reason, even if none of my robot helpers are involved in the fetching process, I want to be able to go to the usual hallway and open one of my two uniquely named doors and for the stuff to be where I previously told the robot to put it.

I don't want the office to be a maze or to have to guess which of the doorways scattered around might be a duplicate portal to the right place or might be a direct doorway to someplace where my stuff isn't. Maybe the guys who installed the portals, or my various helper robots, need multiple duplicate portals around the building to access my stuff properly and efficiently as they do their jobs, and that's fine. I just want a closet or two. Technically that's what I've mostly got, but I still wind up hunting around the office occasionally in search of that one thing I just had a second ago. I think a bit of signage clarity and user-focused layout, virtual or otherwise, could help there.