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  • I'm not an elevator operator

    I really hate when these assholes get on the elevator, and even though they can press a button themselves, ask you to press a button for you.

    Just now I got on an elevator and then a patron got on. I tried to get to the back of the elevator and she backed up to the back also. We are the only people on the elevator. She says, "2". I give her a "are you kidding me?" look. She repeats herself, "2". I press 2 for her and she says "thank you." Do you not know how an elevator work? You press the button to the floor you want. I hate to see what happens when you're on an elevator by yourself. Come to think of it, a lot of people seem to get on an elevator without pressing a button and seems surprised that they don't stop on the floor they want. Anyway, her hands weren't full and she couldn't even bother saying a complete sentence.

    I get a lot people like that.

    There are also times I'm on an elevator, which has the numbers on both sides, and an idiot presses the button on my side, where I'm standing, instead of the other side, where no one is standing.
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  • #2
    Yeah, there's a lot of people that go from sane individual to dumbass the minute they get on an elevator. If I'm right at the panel, I don't mind, unless my hands are full. Then I get irritated.

    But just the two of you and they won't hit the button themselves? Twit.
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    • #3
      while it is dumb, since you were at the back of the elevator, if you were the closest to the buttons, it'd be understandable (saves reaching across people to the buttons)

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      • #4
        The elevator in my work building isn't bad. But the elevator at the transit center I go to get home is another story. The people that get off the train and on the elevator there are dumbasses who don't press the ONLY OTHER FLOOR option on the panel. It's either 1 or 2, and we get on at 1 which means you press 2 moron. Yet people just stand there with a "derp" look wondering why the elevator isn't moving.
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        • #5
          Quoth telecom_goddess View Post
          The elevator in my work building isn't bad. But the elevator at the transit center I go to get home is another story. The people that get off the train and on the elevator there are dumbasses who don't press the ONLY OTHER FLOOR option on the panel. It's either 1 or 2, and we get on at 1 which means you press 2 moron. Yet people just stand there with a "derp" look wondering why the elevator isn't moving.
          Are these the same people who press the elevator call button when it's already lit up because someone already pressed it?
          When you start at zero, everything's progress.

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          • #6
            to be fair, that's sometimes just habit. ( i do it occasionally myself)

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            • #7
              Quoth MoonCat View Post
              Are these the same people who press the elevator call button when it's already lit up because someone already pressed it?
              But that makes it come faster.

              Also, where I used to work, I got off the elevator on the third floor. But there was a separate business on the sixth floor. I lost count of how many times people would get on with me, look thoroughly confused when the doors opened at 3 and I'd have to tell them, no you want 6. The buttons even had labels next to them.
              Last edited by Draper Mel; 05-04-2012, 02:13 AM. Reason: edited to clarify
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              • #8
                Quoth MoonCat View Post
                Are these the same people who press the elevator call button when it's already lit up because someone already pressed it?
                I see the opposite all.the.time. People standing around waiting for the elevator but haven't actually pushed the call button

                The same people seem to do this as crosswalks (traffic light ones). They stand & stand there but won't push the cross button. Hello? It's not going to do anything!
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                • #9
                  Quoth MoonCat View Post
                  Are these the same people who press the elevator call button when it's already lit up because someone already pressed it?
                  Thanks for pushing that, Bob. The light's on but you never know, it really might be broken.
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                  • #10
                    Quoth telecom_goddess View Post
                    The elevator in my work building isn't bad. But the elevator at the transit center I go to get home is another story. The people that get off the train and on the elevator there are dumbasses who don't press the ONLY OTHER FLOOR option on the panel. It's either 1 or 2, and we get on at 1 which means you press 2 moron. Yet people just stand there with a "derp" look wondering why the elevator isn't moving.
                    Good thing those people don't have to ride it out to the end of the line and deal with the Hatfield parking garage. There's like 5-6 floors there!!!! They'd never get home.
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                    • #11
                      while it is dumb, since you were at the back of the elevator, if you were the closest to the buttons, it'd be understandable (saves reaching across people to the buttons)
                      I understand what you are saying. In other cases, if it was a lot of people, then I can see her not able to press it. It was just we were the only 2, and also, when she walked in, she could have press the button before walking to the back.

                      I wouldn't mind if people were polite about it, saying, "could you press 2 for me?" or "could you press 2 for me please," but her tone was made me type this post. Like it was my job to press the number for her.
                      Time! Time! Time is what turns kittens into cats.

                      Don't teach me a lesson; all I learn is that you are an asshole.

                      I wish porn had subtitles.

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                      • #12
                        Quoth depechemodefan View Post
                        I wouldn't mind if people were polite about it, saying, "could you press 2 for me?" or "could you press 2 for me please," but her tone was made me type this post. Like it was my job to press the number for her.
                        This. Is it so hard to say a few more little words to get someone to do, what is in essence, a favor for you?

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                        • #13
                          I get wound up when people press the wrong call button, i.e. up when they want to go down. It interrupts the existing journey & means they have to wait longer, but so does everyone else...
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                          • #14
                            Quoth Sonoma View Post
                            Good thing those people don't have to ride it out to the end of the line and deal with the Hatfield parking garage. There's like 5-6 floors there!!!! They'd never get home.
                            HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!! That's awesome....love it!
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                            • #15
                              I have, on occasion, deliberately "missed" the button for the floor they asked for if I'm alone in the elevator and someone does that. And then I offer to fix it and miss again. Clumsy fat fingers you know.

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