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I know it's unrelated because this has an actual explanation, but I had an ex that stopped watches simply by wearing them for a while. The model didn't matter,

I know it's unrelated because this has an actual explanation, but I had an ex that stopped watches simply by wearing them for a while. The model didn't matter, give them a few weeks, and they would stop. Put them aside for a while, they started back. Never could figure out why, no particular behavior emerged, she changed jobs and houses and I couldn't see a pattern. Fun that life is still full of weird stuff like this.

RobotToaster 2y ago
Reminds me of the Pauli effect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pauli_effect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pauli_effect
- codetrotter 2y ago
  > the supposed tendency of technical equipment to encounter critical failure in the presence of certain people Is there an inverse of this? Often times, people ask me to help them do something on the computer or with other computer related or electronic things. I walk over, touch the equipment without actually doing anything and their problem is instantly solved. Could be a printer that won’t print, even! I don’t see any links in the See Also section about any “effect” like this.
  - Moru 2y ago
    That would be "Demonstration Effect" or "IT Support Effect". Happens every other support call. I bet this is why half the older companies still have a tech person on staff. :-)
recycledmatt 2y ago
Fascinating. Did she work in medical / hard science? I could imagine some exposure to radiation / magnetization could do this.
- BiteCode_dev 2y ago
  Nope. Hotel, then airplanes.
  - rrrrrrrrrrrryan 2y ago
    Maybe using their watch hand to magnetize the hotel key cards?
    - BiteCode_dev 2y ago
      I thought about it but their colleagues would have had the same problem, yet didn't. Plus becomming flight attendant removed that activity. Not to mention it happened during the hollidays too. It's probably more life style related, but I was there during said life style and couldn't figure it out.
      - rrrrrrrrrrrryan 2y ago
        Maybe some sort of magnet phone mount.

RobotToaster 2y ago

Reminds me of the Pauli effect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pauli_effect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pauli_effect

codetrotter 2y ago
> the supposed tendency of technical equipment to encounter critical failure in the presence of certain people Is there an inverse of this? Often times, people ask me to help them do something on the computer or with other computer related or electronic things. I walk over, touch the equipment without actually doing anything and their problem is instantly solved. Could be a printer that won’t print, even! I don’t see any links in the See Also section about any “effect” like this.
- Moru 2y ago
  That would be "Demonstration Effect" or "IT Support Effect". Happens every other support call. I bet this is why half the older companies still have a tech person on staff. :-)

recycledmatt 2y ago

Fascinating. Did she work in medical / hard science? I could imagine some exposure to radiation / magnetization could do this.

BiteCode_dev 2y ago
Nope. Hotel, then airplanes.
- rrrrrrrrrrrryan 2y ago
  Maybe using their watch hand to magnetize the hotel key cards?
  - BiteCode_dev 2y ago
    I thought about it but their colleagues would have had the same problem, yet didn't. Plus becomming flight attendant removed that activity. Not to mention it happened during the hollidays too. It's probably more life style related, but I was there during said life style and couldn't figure it out.
    - rrrrrrrrrrrryan 2y ago
      Maybe some sort of magnet phone mount.