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New Elevators
Elevators.

Let me tell you about a elevators. You think you know elevators until you don't. M checked into a lovely hotel in Seattle. It was way over what I was used to but she got a good deal. She didn't realize the deal included 60 bucks a night just to park your car. Thank you very much not again.

They only have valet parking. I don't like giving up my car but I do. I have a card. It says a room way too high. I wave it at the valet and he compliments me on me having the penthouse. Excuse me?

It seems that M has been a bit exaggeratory on who I am and I have joined a club and they give me stuff. Penthouse. M has an inner Karen that you could not believe.

I double check with the desk. What's your floor should I be going to? She says 34 and waves me to the elevators and gives me some instructions which I ignore. Everyone knows how to use an elevator. Why do I need instructions? Innstructions? I was so wrong.

Walk in to the elevator and try to press my button. It laughs at me silently. I look around for the camera crew.

I didn't realize I need to press my room card to the room card reader which will then allow me to press the correct button. It won't allow me to press any other button. I figured this was a good security thing. But then of course I had to try the stairs. The stairs will let me in on any floor I want.

Each time I come back into the building I see people checking in. The clerk yells out the elevator instructions that everybody ignores. They get into the elevator and then they panic. I stand in the back and wait for the reaction for a moment and then I teach them. This is what you do to get to your floor and it's a safety thing but it's not really. Be kind to the next people and teach them as well.

And another thing. Someone was bitching about whatever inconvenience of the moment she felt was troubling her. She said she felt like she was in jail. I asked her if she had ever been to jail. She said no. I was prepared for a hell of a rant and then my elevator arrived and I just got on the elevator and smiled at her.
Expand Edited by crazy March 10, 2022, 08:03:54 PM EST
New Changing the UI.
Elevators have had basically the same UI for decades. Most people don't even realize it could be different.

I've encountered residential buildings where you needed your key to select the correct floor. It meant you had to go down to the front door to let someone in, which was probably inconvenient.

There is another trend in office buildings: select the floor you want from a panel in the vestibule and it will tell you which elevator to get in to. At least this one is a little more common and people do quickly learn it. But it's still a UI change...

Wade.
New I've only seen that second one twice
But then I don't go to that many high rise buildings.
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Drew
New I used to go to a few . . .
. . but that was quite a few years ago, probably before these fancy new schemes.

Here in Los Angeles every elevator sports an Elevator Certificate testifying to its inspection status. In one building, the inspector must have run out of elevator certificates, because one of the elevators sported a Boiler Certificate.
New Re: Elevators
That's not that new.

I've been waving my room card in lifts for at least ten years, if not more.
New That's new
I went for an eye exam this week. I've finally got good vision coverage, and it would be nice to have a backup for these new glasses.

Turns out it's been 5 years since I got them. And they're still my "new glasses".

So yeah, a 10-year-old UI on elevators is still new.
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Drew
New Was doing it in the late '90s.
It was required for access to some of the floors of the EPA building in downtown Seattle.
Ceterum autem censeo pars Republican esse delendam.
New New to me in hotels
Not new to me in the office complexes I worked in when I worked in Manhattan.

New to at least a dozen people that I saw as I had to teach them over the 2 days.

New enough to be surprising to many people.
New One would think a lot of those people have also worked in office buildings.
They come to a hotel, get a plastic card for a key, step into the elevator and are a little surprised at first as nothing happens when they press a button... And it doesn't fucking immediately occur to them that they could try waving that plastic key card at the controls just like they've been doing at the office for years already? People are morons.
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   Christian R. Conrad
The Man Who Apparently Still Knows Fucking Everything


Mail: Same username as at the top left of this post, at iki.fi
New There are also places where you need to do that to turn the lights on.
New Ferry cabins and some h/motel rooms in the Nordics: Card in holder by the door, or live in the dark.
     Elevators - (crazy) - (10)
         Changing the UI. - (static) - (2)
             I've only seen that second one twice - (drook) - (1)
                 I used to go to a few . . . - (Andrew Grygus)
         Re: Elevators - (pwhysall) - (4)
             That's new - (drook)
             Was doing it in the late '90s. - (InThane)
             New to me in hotels - (crazy) - (1)
                 One would think a lot of those people have also worked in office buildings. - (CRConrad)
         There are also places where you need to do that to turn the lights on. -NT - (scoenye) - (1)
             Ferry cabins and some h/motel rooms in the Nordics: Card in holder by the door, or live in the dark. -NT - (CRConrad)

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