Lift etiquette

[ColinJ]

If you're feeling evil, push the call button on each floor as you pass.

Ah, but I would have had to dart out from the stairwell on each floor to get to the buttons by the lift doors, which I probably would not have had time to do. Nice idea though ...

What really used to amaze me was everybody queueing up to take the lift down in the evening. There were about 4 lifts worth of people trying to use one lift! Even walking slowly down the stairs, I would beat everybody but the first lift's worth, and if they were waiting for the lift to come up when I passed the queue, I would beat them too!

I asked one of the guys why he didn't walk down with me. He looked blankly at me and said "But why? There's a lift!"

 

[Archie_tect]

Or wait till someone tall enough to reach button 6 gets in.

Now that's what I call lateral thinking...

 

[stowie]

I visited a client today and we traveled in a lift. Trying to follow CoG's etiquette rules, I got very confused. My client was clearly from another company, but I was a visitor. Should I get in the lift with him at the same time or not? Would my visitor status grant me honorary company status and thus we could use the lift together? The rules didn't seem clear on these details. And it was complicated by the fact that the lift could only be operated by using an employee swipe card, which as I visitor, I didn't have. So I would have had to get in the lift with him, wait for him to swipe his card to activate the lift buttons and then ask him to leave and wait for the next lift, if strict lift etiquette was to be observed.

As if this dilemma wasn't taxing enough, once the lift started up he proceeded to continue with the conversation we had just been having whilst waiting for the lift. He clearly had not been educated in lift etiquette. What should I do? Surely engaging in conversation would perpetuate his ignorance, but ignoring him when he was asking me questions seemed a bit rude. Maybe I could pretend to be deaf in one ear and not hear him? I couldn't pretend to be mute as I had been talking to him before entering the lift and, anyway, I had a 3 hour discussion to get through and my miming simply wouldn't be up to the job when the topic was software defined networking.

I ended up getting in the same lift as him and talking whilst in it. But I felt I had transgressed the lift commandments. Living a righteous life is never easy.

 

[Profpointy]

Ah, but I would have had to dart out from the stairwell on each floor to get to the buttons by the lift doors, which I probably would not have had time to do. Nice idea though ...

What really used to amaze me was everybody queueing up to take the lift down in the evening. There were about 4 lifts worth of people trying to use one lift! Even walking slowly down the stairs, I would beat everybody but the first lift's worth, and if they were waiting for the lift to come up when I passed the queue, I would beat them too!

I asked one of the guys why he didn't walk down with me. He looked blankly at me and said "But why? There's a lift!"

....... maybe I didn't explain it right - you only need to run to first floor and push button; there's then plenty of time to amble up to each subsequent floor, pushing the button each time. The lift will take ages stopping at each floor, so you'll have plenty of time to gain composure when your reach your floor.

 

[ColinJ]

....... maybe I didn't explain it right - you only need to run to first floor and push button; there's then plenty of time to amble up to each subsequent floor, pushing the button each time. The lift will take ages stopping at each floor, so you'll have plenty of time to gain composure when your reach your floor.

I left 11 years ago so my lift-racing days are over!

 

[Shut Up Legs]

Lifts are for peole who's legs don't work. Walk up the stairs you lazy bugger!

Yes, the same applies to elevator etiquette. I keep having to overtake people on escalators, because they step on the things, then promptly forget how to walk!

 

[shouldbeinbed]

Can you break wind in your lifts, Crockers? (I know it has been posted before, but I just wondered what the company rules on that act were)

[QUOTE 2946968, member: 1314"]Never![/quote]

how about a SBD just as you leave the lift, let the recipients play guess who for the rest of their ride.

 

[laurence]

you forgot the "never stand between a mother bear and her cub in the lift" rule. that one is vitally important. it's up there with "never get your tiger's tail trapped in the closing doors" one.

 

[martint235]

Yes, the same applies to elevator etiquette. I keep having to overtake people on escalators, because they step on the things, then promptly forget how to walk!

Why would I walk up an escalator? It's moving towards my destination, to walk is just a waste of energy.

 

[User482]

A friend, new in an important job at the EC in Brussels told me how once having got into the lift, the door closed and she was on her own. She looked in the mirror, and started trying to smooth the wrinkles out of her tights, which involved lifting her skirt up. Unfortunately, rather than pressing floor 6, she'd pressed for floor zero, the one she was already on. So of course after a few seconds, the lift door opened again, for the whole of the lobby to see her hitching her drawers up.

 

[Spinney]

I don't think there are many paternoster lifts left now because of safety and disabled access issues, but it used to be fun to 'go over the top' in one and do a handstand for the descent!

Had one of those at Salford when I was at Uni there. The trick during morning rush hour was to get in the empty down-going one and go under the bottom, then you were already in the thing on the ground floor where every one else was trying to get into it.

 

[stephec]

Had one of those at Salford when I was at Uni there. The trick during morning rush hour was to get in the empty down-going one and go under the bottom, then you were already in the thing on the ground floor where every one else was trying to get into it.

I used to love those lifts, the highlight of that building.

 

[ColinJ]

That's the one!

 

[Wobblers]

[QUOTE 3019020, member: 1314"]Major breach of etiquette this morn. I and I entered the 3rd lift, the other 2 still being 4th floor-held, having barely noticed a spick-spanly dressed young man pressing his mob buttons on the reception armchair.

As the doors closed he got up AND ONLY STARTED TO PRESS MY LIFT DOOR BUTTON! Doors reopened and in walked the naïve simpleton. I stared ahead, musing on his foolishness. He then pressed the button for the 9th Floor (I'm 7th Floor) without a swipe card.

"You need to swipe first."

I only spoke to him as I didn't want him walking out on my floor - we are the only company on our floor. He smiled like a fish and said nothing. Lift went up with only the 7th Floor light indicating. I let the fool be

I got out on the 7th Floor - and in the words of Pope he followed me:

For fools rush in where angels fear to read.

"You can't come here, this is the 7th Floor."

"Can I walk up to the 9th Floor?"

"No, you need a swipe card. Go back down, go to the reception, they'll give you a swipe card. I told you that before the doors closed."

"Oh." He gave me a wet smile, returned, doors closed. I walked to my desk but am now finally over it. For as Pope wrote:

To err is human, to forgive divine.[/QUOTE]

The excitement just never stops at your workplace, does it?

What next: did you have some form of Cheese On Toast Incident?

 

[glenn forger]

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