# Stupidest product design you’ve experienced

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [March 25, 2023, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupidest-product-design-you-ve-experienced/981621 "2023-03-25T02:57:30Z")\
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**Author:** ![echoreply](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/echoreply/32/3641_2.png) [@echoreply](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/echoreply)\
**Post date:** [November 1, 2023, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupidest-product-design-you-ve-experienced/981621/980 "2023-11-01T23:44:38Z")

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I couldn’t decide which thread to post this in. A coworker was [using his speaker phone](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-and-unimproved-workplace-rants/734638/3844) to make a [colonoscopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ugh-do-i-really-have-to-schedule-another-colonoscopy/989304/137) appointment. None of that actually bothered me too much, though.

What did inspire me to post was the hold voice kept asking for “the first three **initials** of your last name.” I know dictionaries are descriptive not prescriptive, but words still have meanings, and that isn’t one of them.

I bet if we could have read the script, it was “you’re.”

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