The fourth floor is labeled 3A. The 14th floor is labeled 13A, etc. Four is considered bad luck.
I’m from Malaysia, and this is very rare.
It’s called Tetraphobia and it’s common throughout Asia due to the words for “4” and “death” having similar pronunciations in many Asian languages. In the west, triskaidekaphobia, fear of the number 13, is more common but the exact origin is unknown.
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Just because they believe in one weird thing you say they’re superstitious? I don’t know about that, maybe they’re just a little stitious.
This is an interesting question…
I read that in Taiwan they have a superstition where the IT team place a small bag och unopened potato chips on top of each server rack for good luck. The bag must be in date and unopened.
This means that they have a reason to check up on the physical servers semi regularly and can notice things that are out of order, it also means that the IT team gets a treat when the complete the task of replacing the bags.
Is this good or bad?
I don’t actually know…
A bag of oily, flammable potato chips doesn’t seem like a good thing to put on top of a server rack. They should replace it with something else.
I’ll go to Taiwan and tell them your opinion, where should I send the invoice for the tickets?
That’s just a good Organizational Behaviour practice.
