Elevator Rudeness

[blas]

Maybe it's just the way I was raised, but I was always taught that if you are in a hospital using the elevators, you always stand aside and make sure no one is inside before you get in. Common courtesy, there's always decent odds that someone with a wheelchair/crutches/a walker could be coming out, or someone who needs help getting around. There's also a chance a doctor may need to dash in and out, or nurses toting around machinery and medications could be coming out. I was always taught to assume that that's what would probably happen, so never just walk into an elevator when the door opens.

Just for good measure, even if I'm getting off, I wait to see if anyone is waiting for the elevator, because if they need help getting around or if they are staff, they are more important than me.

This morning, I was leaving the hospital. I'd just taken the elevator to the ground floor, and before the door was even open all the way, some stupid schmuck waltzed right in and didn't even say "Excuse me" or anything.

[telecom_goddess]

figures....I was coming into my work building recently and there was a guy coming out, I think he was lighting a cig in the area between the outside and inside doors....someone going in must have said something to him cause all of a sudden he's just like...

fuck you you stupid fuck

Some people.

I guess that's more entry way rudeness but similar

[50 mission cap]

I find the happens more and more, as soon as the elevator door opens people are crowding around/getting on, before you and the others can get off. Whatever happened to courtesy.

[Draco]

Same thing that happened to "common sense".

[Seshat]

Even outside a hospital. It may well be someone in a mobility scooter, wheelchair, with a pram, with a cleaning cart....


But especially in a hospital: if you're not a doctor/nurse/orderly rushing to an emergency, you wait long enough to check for someone like that. Common courtesy and sense.

[greek_jester]

Common courtesy and sense.

Same thing that happened to "common sense".

Whatever happened to courtesy.

Given the site we're on, do I really need to say this?

If it makes sense/if it's good manners it's not allowed.

We really need a smiley with this on...

[pitmonkey]

I never rush up to an elevator, you never know what is coming out. This is coming from a self-defense stand point. Getting on or off an elevator is a compromised situation, you don't know what is on the other side.

[Sapphire Silk]

With any elevator, the polite thing to do is make sure no one is on it getting off before you get on.

In a hospital, if you are using staff elevators (used to transport patients), if staff are transporting a patient or large equipment and there is no room for them to get on, get off and let them have the car.

[xx_wolfie_xx]

this doesn't get any better on construction sites, of the 15 or so elevators that are being built, 3 are in operation to ferry people and materials from the basement to the roof. Every morning on the first floor there is a crowd of people all trying to get into the same 3 elevators. Some of them have quite a bit of stuff to haul up, thing is the previous shift with just as much crap are trying to get off the elevator at the same time. Now I don't like walking up 7 stories worth of stairs, especially since there is a maintenance level between every floor, but i suck it up and go.

[WoodenSunshine]

I was with some friends at the mall last summer and I was in a borrowed wheelchair due to having surgery on my foot. I can't count how many times people either a) rushed around me to get into the elevator before me (and there are signs that say People in Wheelchairs get on first) or b) rush into the elevator and run into me while I was trying to get out.
People. Suck.

[Midorikawa]

I was just raging about this sort of thing the other day. Had a bad day, and then some dimwit stood in the middle of the elevator doorway blocking me into the elevator, and was too busy screwing around on her phone to be paying attention. I growled at her after asking her twice to please move, then she got this rather rude tone with me as if *I* was in the wrong.

I swear, noone knows any social etiquette any more.