You know when you get called for an interview and when you arrive at the place, you see that it's a tall, intimidating building and suddenly you can't wait to start working here, nevermind what the company that you're applying for is actually like? Once you do get hired and you realize that you'll have to deal with the elevators and idiots who use it everyday--especially when your office is located at the higher floors--it just makes you want to submit your resignation after a few weeks. There are five types of stupid shit that people regularly do with elevators that piss me off:
Pressing both Up and Down buttons: I am not so sure where people get the idea that they'll reach their destination faster if you press both buttons. The premise behind the buttons is simple: If you wanna go up, press Up, then an elevator that's going up will stop to pick you up. Otherwise press Down. If you're waiting for an elevator on a floor that isn't the top or the bottom and some idiot does this, there's a chance that a perfectly unoccupied elevator that would have otherwise gone your way will now instead go the opposite direction to pick up some asshole exec at the top floor. And neither you nor the idiot that pressed both buttons can go downstairs until the elevator stops again at your floor, and chances are, by the time it happens it's already full.
Pressing the Up or Down buttons more than once: It's not gonna make the elevator go faster. Stop doing it.
Stopping an elevator on the second floor, only to get off at the ground floor/lobby floor: This one NEVER fails to irritate me. If you're on a wheelchair or you have a heavy load with you MAYBE this could be justified, but if you have perfectly functional legs and aren't carrying anything cumbersome then you deserve to get mugged and beaten up by squatters from Navotas. There's a reason why buildings have stairs; use them. It's especially annoying when the idiot who does this is obese. You ever wonder why you're so fat?
Idiots who start running toward the elevators and try to get you to wait for them by shouting "UP UP UP UP" or "DOWN DOWN DOWN DOWN": Nope. You really think the door should be held open for you by repeatedly shouting which direction you want to go? Thanks for the useless information, but we really have to go. You're 10 paces away, the door is closing, and I'm late, and so is everyone on the elevator, and you're a dumbass for thinking we're gonna wait for you in the first place. Telling us where you wanna go does NOTHING. You can try communicating like a human being, or coming in earlier next time.
Passengers who press one floor above yours (when going down) or below (when going up): While this can't be helped, god damn if it isn't annoying. I'm pretty sure everyone finds this annoying, and if you say you don't you are a goddamn liar.
Please, use elevators wisely.
Pressing both Up and Down buttons: I am not so sure where people get the idea that they'll reach their destination faster if you press both buttons. The premise behind the buttons is simple: If you wanna go up, press Up, then an elevator that's going up will stop to pick you up. Otherwise press Down. If you're waiting for an elevator on a floor that isn't the top or the bottom and some idiot does this, there's a chance that a perfectly unoccupied elevator that would have otherwise gone your way will now instead go the opposite direction to pick up some asshole exec at the top floor. And neither you nor the idiot that pressed both buttons can go downstairs until the elevator stops again at your floor, and chances are, by the time it happens it's already full.
Pressing the Up or Down buttons more than once: It's not gonna make the elevator go faster. Stop doing it.
Stopping an elevator on the second floor, only to get off at the ground floor/lobby floor: This one NEVER fails to irritate me. If you're on a wheelchair or you have a heavy load with you MAYBE this could be justified, but if you have perfectly functional legs and aren't carrying anything cumbersome then you deserve to get mugged and beaten up by squatters from Navotas. There's a reason why buildings have stairs; use them. It's especially annoying when the idiot who does this is obese. You ever wonder why you're so fat?
Idiots who start running toward the elevators and try to get you to wait for them by shouting "UP UP UP UP" or "DOWN DOWN DOWN DOWN": Nope. You really think the door should be held open for you by repeatedly shouting which direction you want to go? Thanks for the useless information, but we really have to go. You're 10 paces away, the door is closing, and I'm late, and so is everyone on the elevator, and you're a dumbass for thinking we're gonna wait for you in the first place. Telling us where you wanna go does NOTHING. You can try communicating like a human being, or coming in earlier next time.
Passengers who press one floor above yours (when going down) or below (when going up): While this can't be helped, god damn if it isn't annoying. I'm pretty sure everyone finds this annoying, and if you say you don't you are a goddamn liar.Please, use elevators wisely.
