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    Elevator Action

    Woo, bonus points for old-school gaming reference!

    Anyway, just a quick quip about tonight's wonderful activities. One of our elevators (of 2 total elevators) started acting up...on Friday. Before I left, they had me stay over a few minutes and help manually reset it (since I'm a bit more technical than the other people on shift at the time), but after I left it started acting up again. It's not getting stuck (thankfully), but it freezes on the first floor and continually opens and closes the door...while emitting an annoying beep. Oh, sorry, did I say beep? I meant a nonstop buzzing sound that is audible anywhere on the 1st floor, and on any guest floor near the elevator bays in the whole hotel.

    Naturally, they posted an "Out of Order" sign on it. Done, right? Not really, since the elevator keeps randomly resetting itself and going back into service, only to have problems again a couple hours later. That means that, randomly, people try to call the elevator and the out of order car (clearly marked) opens up for them.

    I've been in for 30 minutes and have gotten 5 complaints. Why? Because the elevator company won't send someone out for repairs until Monday since no one is stuck in there right now.

    Bit of MiM here though: they could have had the elevator guys talk them through completely shutting off that car for the weekend, thus no buzzing noise, or random operation of the Out of Order car. Did they? Of course not...

    To quote Deadpool, SHHH, my Common Sense is tingling!

    Edit: Sigh...not 2 minutes after I hit submit, it started making the buzzing again and screwing up, only to stop just as someone decided to ride up, thus making another person complain that it was doing that. I tried to smooth things over by reassuring them that it's not getting stuck, so much as it is forgetting to close the door on the first floor, but still. This is gonna be a long night...
    Last edited by KhirasHY; 05-13-2013, 05:46 AM.
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    Quoth KhirasHY View Post
    Woo, bonus points for old-school gaming reference!
    *tosses a grappling line over to the next building, slides down, and lands with a dun-dun-du'dun* Loved that game. I sucked at it, but I still loved it. The third (?) one, however (the one with different characters to choose from), I was pretty good at.

    Maybe they'll let you put up a sawhorse, orange cones, a guard, and a heavily-armed mecha near the elevator along with the signs until the maintenance guys get there. That should deter all but the most obstinate, actively aliterate SC's.
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    • #3
      Quoth EricKei View Post
      Maybe they'll let you put up a sawhorse, orange cones, a guard, and a heavily-armed mecha near the elevator along with the signs until the maintenance guys get there. That should deter all but the most obstinate, actively aliterate SC's.
      In other words, it'll deter exactly ONE SC, who will then spend the next 15 minutes complaining LOUDLY about how his or her day/weekend/month has been ruined because of one or two minutes of inconvenience. All the rest will ignore any and all attempts to communicate useful information to them, then spend the next 15 minutes complaining loudly.... you get the idea.
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      • #4
        Step 1: Find circuit breaker panel.

        Step 2: Find large circuit breaker that powers elevator.

        Step 3: *snap*

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        • #5
          TS: Then they will walk past the barricade and sign, into the DARK elevator, pretend to trip, and then threaten to sue the place because they couldn't see what they were doing and hurt themselves. 8p
          "For a musician, the SNES sound engine is like using Crayola Crayons. Nobuo Uematsu used Crayola Crayons to paint the Sistine Chapel." - Jeremy Jahns (re: "Dancing Mad")
          "The difference between an amateur and a master is that the master has failed way more times." - JoCat
          "Thinking is difficult, therefore let the herd pronounce judgment!" ~ Carl Jung
          "There's burning bridges, and then there's the lake just to fill it with gasoline." - Wiccy, reddit
          "Retail is a cruel master, and could very well be the most educational time of many people's lives, in its own twisted way." - me
          "Love keeps her in the air when she oughta fall down...tell you she's hurtin' 'fore she keens...makes her a home." - Capt. Malcolm Reynolds, "Serenity" (2005)
          Acts of Gord – Read it, Learn it, Love it!
          "Our psychic powers only work if the customer has a mind to read." - me

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