Last week I thought of giving up smoking. Not because of my health, but because I wanted to have a valid reason
for feeling like shit.
I was succesful...
in finding a valid reason.
I realized that I am
not meant to succeed
at anything.
Excuse me while I light another cigarette...
And yes... I am the freak in the picture.
26.10.05
Elevator Manual
I work in a building that has 20 floors and 3 elevators. Normally, this wouldn't be so bad except that when you work at a call center every second matters so having only 3 elevators to service 1000 people in 20 floors is crap. But it's really not that bad its just made worse by people who don't know how to use them properly. So here it is, advice for people who want to see another day if they ever share a building with me.
The Up arrow means up and Down arrow means down. Duh? I always thought it was kind of clever that they chose symbols instead of words for those elevator buttons. It's supposed to be universal. Doesn't matter whether you speak English, Filipino, German or whatever, I know that in most places in Europe that traffic tends to come from the right but red still means stop and green still means go. This is pretty much the same for those arrows that you press when you need to use the elevator. It's not asking you where the elevator is going. It's asking you where you need to go. So why the hell do some people press both buttons? I doubt that they are going to two places. I just want to strangle these people who come by and see that the Up button is already pressed so they press the Down button and then when the elevator opens nobody moves because obviously none of them are getting off at that floor and the dumb ass who pressed the down button stands by the door and asks "going Up?" What the fuck? Come on. Of course the damn thing is on its way down. You pressed the damn down button didn't you?
I'm not mad because I'm being prissy. I'm just being practical. This sort of stupidity takes up a lot of time. Instead of the elevator being able to go down at once it has to stop, open its doors for some idiot who can't follow simple instructions, and the people in the elevators, being that most of them are a lot nicer than I am wait around and not shut those doors at once. You really don't have to know that much about math to realize how much time this eats up. And an adult pressing buttons just because he can’t help it is not the same as when a 6 year old kid does it. It doesn’t look cute dude… its looks retarded.
posted by jeanne @ 06:48
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