Adding on to the dog pile. Two things against the usability of the new notification:
1. My particular brand of colorblindness makes this particular shade of orange fade into whatever shade of off-white (bone? ivory? cream?) that has been chosen for an aesthetically pleasing top ribbon.
2. If my window has been open for more than a few minutes without refreshing, the icon has a bad habit of disappearing completely. Not sure if it's the javascript in the back end of the page deciding that its workday is done, something just going unresponsive and failing silently, or any multitude of other possible options, but it's quite difficult to go to a waiting table if the icon I need to click isn't even there.
This needs to go back to a UX person for comments and revision, because this is not good.