<div dir="ltr"><div>This is fascinating.</div><div><br></div>You should check your machines and make sure they work with dark skin tones.<div><br></div><div>Sometimes soap dispensers, and other 'smart' technologies don't perform for, or even recognize darker skin tones.</div><div><br></div><div>Respectfully, </div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Max Macias </div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Jul 9, 2020 at 10:41 AM Rhonda Alderman <<a href="mailto:RAlderman@clatsopcc.edu">RAlderman@clatsopcc.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, July 9, 2020 10:34 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:LIBS-OR@omls.oregon.gov" target="_blank">LIBS-OR@omls.oregon.gov</a> <<a href="mailto:LIBS-OR@omls.oregon.gov" target="_blank">LIBS-OR@omls.oregon.gov</a>><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Libs-Or] WARNING: touchless hand sanitizer machine alert!</font>
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<div dir="ltr">Part of our morning protocol is to test the touchless hand sanitizing dispensers. Oddly, neither machine was functioning this morning.</div>
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<div dir="ltr">We switched out the C batteries. Still not working. <br>
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<div dir="ltr">In the past, we had several new boxes of worthless/expired C batteries. Maybe we were putting bad batteries back into the machines?*</div>
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<div dir="ltr">Our office hand soap dispensers are also touchless and run on C batteries. Oddly, neither of the hand soap dispensers were working this morning, either.</div>
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<div dir="ltr">What are the odds? Infinitesimal.<br>
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<div dir="ltr">After trying every battery in the building, we made a special trip to Rite-Aid for fresh, fancy, Duracell C batteries.</div>
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<div dir="ltr">Even with Duracells, all four dispensers still not working!!!</div>
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<div dir="ltr">To make a long story longer....we miraculously deduced that the touchless laser switches do not respond to jet-black nitrile gloves.<br>
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<div dir="ltr">Both persons attempting to fix the machines were wearing black gloves. The batteries didn't need replacement. The gloves needed replacement.<br>
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<div dir="ltr">Fun fact: they work just fine with blue gloves.</div>
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<div dir="ltr">Don't be like Seaside. Test your soap and sanitizer machines without black gloves.</div>
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