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[listersgirl]

There is a diabolical new plot afoot at work, one obviously intended to make us stay here for hours on end, slaving away without a break.

The elevators never come. Ever.

If the elevators don't come, then we can't go home, right?

There is nothing sadder than standing waiting for an elevator for 5, 6 minutes, and then having it arrive already stuffed full of sweaty employees, and realizing there is no way you are getting on that elevator without bending the laws of physics and gravity. No, wait, worse is the fact that you're only on the 2nd floor. AND that there are approximately 24 elevators throughout the building, but none of them are doing anything.

OMG I just want to get my lunch!

Before you say "Durr, take the stairs you lazy bastard," let me just add that there are no stairs from the second to the main floor. That's right, THERE ARE NO STAIRS. I can take the stairs in between all the other floors, but the stairs from my floor lead right to the alarmed emergency exits. And yes, I do feel stupid taking the elevator down one floor. Whose stupid idea was that?

Comments

[marginalia.livejournal.com]

is it some kind of weird security thing wot keeps the stairs like that?

[listersgirl]

I guess - I mean, they obviously didn't want the stairs to be accessible to the public. But the elevators aren't accessible to the public! What's wrong with having the stairs come out on the other side of the security gates, just like the elevators?!

*grumble*

[marginalia.livejournal.com]

well, obviously then people would use the stairs. and fall down them. and die. and sue. from the afterlife.

[listersgirl]

Obviously. And obviously no-one could possibly fall down on the stairs between the 9th and 10th floor. It's that last floor that's the deathtrap.

[marginalia.livejournal.com]

it is. it's the whole false sense of security from being closer to the ground.

[gmajor.livejournal.com]

And they deny you stairs at the same time as they meet code. Sure they have stairs in case of fire, but do they have stairs in case of FOOD? Denied!

[pomma-penses.livejournal.com]

Stupid ideas:

1. take the elevator up first
2. take the service elevator
3. jump out a window

Yep. I'm all about the stupid.

[listersgirl]

I totally did the first one when I left today. Shhh!

[(Anonymous)]

Bring a rope ladder... oh, no, I suppose it'll be an airconned box with non-opening windows?

In honour of its being Thanksgiving on the other side of the Atlantic, I'm now feeling thankful that I work in an eighteenth-century building that predates elevators and has stairs. Even if it is easy to get lost in.

[listersgirl]

Yet another way in which they are trying to trap us here: I have never been in a building more maze-like. Half the library is in the B section and half in the J section. Why those two sections are adjacent, I haven't figured out.

[alltheleaves.livejournal.com]

You should get a slide put up so you can slide out of the window down to the bottom. Or a fireman's pole. Just hack through the floor, install said pole and any time you need to get down, you can just do a Bridget Jones.

[listersgirl]

Oo, hey, now that's very smart. I can't get to any windows, but I could just toss it over the railing into the central atrium. I just have to remember not to wear short skirts. :)