I'm going to print a poster for my colleagues co-workerswith two pictures on it. The first picture will go with caption "What you are expecting" and the second with "What is expecting you". However I'm not sure whether "what is expecting you" is good on the place, it looks like a question for me.
Is it okay or is it better to write "What you expect" and "What expects you"?
Context: It's about what you will see arriving to a certain place. For example, going to a beach you hope to see there sun and blue sea ("what you are expecting"-part) but coming to the place you see rain and wind ("what is expecting you"-part).
Best Answer
As FumbleFingers mentions in his comment, certain actions like "expect" or "welcome" can only be done by people -- however, that doesn't mean other, nonhuman entities can't figuratively expect or welcome. It just means that we personify these entities and still use the pronoun "who" when referring to them.
Who expects every man to do his duty? England does.
Who welcomes you? Tahiti does.
Again, this use is figurative. It's as if these inanimate objects are people, who can do things normally reserved for humans. But what about something like:
Again, if I had to pick a pronoun, I'd go with "who":
We can argue that "the system" is a thing and I should say what not who, but "What expects this of the user?" doesn't sound quite natural.
A better way to do what you want is to contrast expectation vs. reality. Example:
Or this meme: