Tidy or not?

A not very well judged snap of something that I found really irritating on a train from Blackfriars to Sutton.

So we have a dark plastic housing attached to the jamb of the door, if that is what one calls it on a pair of sliding doors. All well and good.

Then we have four things attached to it, from the top, pink, pink, white and a pair of yellow buttons. But whoever put them on, despite their being quite carefully designed individually, gave no thought to the big picture. The yellow buttons are significantly out of vertical and the top pink is slightly out of vertical. Then the middle pink and the middle white are just plonked in there without any regard to placement relative to their neighbours. The overall effect for me was of considerable sloppiness. What has happened to pride in a job well done? Has that all gone down the plug hole in the quest for ever increasing volume of output per unit time? Never mind the quality, feel the width?

First thought was, thinking back to the cranes (see reference 1), that it would not happen in Germany, where they really do believe in quality control rather than getting certificates in same.

Second thought was about how oddly patchy our sensitivity to tidiness is. So some people are very tidy about what is on shelves and visible, while being very untidy about the contents of drawers which are not so visible. Other people are very tidy about their laying of dining tables and all the pots and plates are nicely composed, not to say laid out in rows. Other people again only exercise their tidy gene when it comes to their collection of stamps, or in the way that they arrange their garden tools in the shed. With much shouting and abuse if anyone should be so careless as to disturb that arrangement. While not bothering in the least about the outdoor decorating which might not have been done for years and years.

Reference 1: http://www.psmv2.blogspot.co.uk/2014/12/op131.html.