so...does repeatedly pressing the lift button...
Jan 12th 2010, 3:00 pm
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so...does repeatedly pressing the lift button...
...when it's already clearly been pressed (and is lit up to show that) make the lift come any quicker...i have to assume it does, given the vigorous pressing action this guy was doing at the lift today at work...
why do people do that...press it when you've already done it, i mean...same for the crossing buttons at traffic lights...it's just so bloody annoying...
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why do people do that...press it when you've already done it, i mean...same for the crossing buttons at traffic lights...it's just so bloody annoying...
MM, xx
Jan 12th 2010, 3:09 pm
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Re: so...does repeatedly pressing the lift button...
Because they can, basically lol.
I press up and down, calling 2 lifts at once. Sounds stupid but it works! It will then call a lift that is already booked to go past your floor in the wrong direction
You may spend another 2 mins in the lift while it drops the current customer off at worst but at least youre the next customer! If you press only the direction you want to go you need to wait for everyone else that the lift is passing first!
I press up and down, calling 2 lifts at once. Sounds stupid but it works! It will then call a lift that is already booked to go past your floor in the wrong direction
You may spend another 2 mins in the lift while it drops the current customer off at worst but at least youre the next customer! If you press only the direction you want to go you need to wait for everyone else that the lift is passing first!
Jan 12th 2010, 3:12 pm
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Re: so...does repeatedly pressing the lift button...
Because they can, basically lol.
I press up and down, calling 2 lifts at once. Sounds stupid but it works! It will then call a lift that is already booked to go past your floor in the wrong direction You may spend another 2 mins in the lift while it drops the current customer off at worst but at least youre the next customer! If you press only the direction you want to go you need to wait for everyone else that the lift is passing first!
I press up and down, calling 2 lifts at once. Sounds stupid but it works! It will then call a lift that is already booked to go past your floor in the wrong direction
You may spend another 2 mins in the lift while it drops the current customer off at worst but at least youre the next customer! If you press only the direction you want to go you need to wait for everyone else that the lift is passing first!MM, xx
Jan 12th 2010, 3:13 pm
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Re: so...does repeatedly pressing the lift button...
Because they can, basically lol.
I press up and down, calling 2 lifts at once. Sounds stupid but it works! It will then call a lift that is already booked to go past your floor in the wrong direction You may spend another 2 mins in the lift while it drops the current customer off at worst but at least youre the next customer! If you press only the direction you want to go you need to wait for everyone else that the lift is passing first!
I press up and down, calling 2 lifts at once. Sounds stupid but it works! It will then call a lift that is already booked to go past your floor in the wrong direction
You may spend another 2 mins in the lift while it drops the current customer off at worst but at least youre the next customer! If you press only the direction you want to go you need to wait for everyone else that the lift is passing first!
Jan 12th 2010, 3:22 pm
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Re: so...does repeatedly pressing the lift button...
another mystery is people that spill something on their shirt and then think that really rubbing it hard with their fingers is going to make it disappear...
Jan 12th 2010, 3:25 pm
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Re: so...does repeatedly pressing the lift button...
But it does remove stains and shouting does work!!!
Im normally very patient but there are 4 lifts in this place but the bloody workmen abuse them so I call 2 to make sure I get service!
Im normally very patient but there are 4 lifts in this place but the bloody workmen abuse them so I call 2 to make sure I get service!
Jan 12th 2010, 3:43 pm
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Re: so...does repeatedly pressing the lift button...
Because they can, basically lol.
I press up and down, calling 2 lifts at once. Sounds stupid but it works! It will then call a lift that is already booked to go past your floor in the wrong direction You may spend another 2 mins in the lift while it drops the current customer off at worst but at least youre the next customer! If you press only the direction you want to go you need to wait for everyone else that the lift is passing first!
I press up and down, calling 2 lifts at once. Sounds stupid but it works! It will then call a lift that is already booked to go past your floor in the wrong direction
You may spend another 2 mins in the lift while it drops the current customer off at worst but at least youre the next customer! If you press only the direction you want to go you need to wait for everyone else that the lift is passing first!If you're on the 5th floor and want to go down:
...if a lift is going up...it will stop to pick you up...you then ride up to whereever the lift was originally going and then go back down to whereever you want to go passing through your original location.
But if you hadn't pushed the up...it would stop for you on the way down?
It has saved you absolutely no time at all and has only served to cost those going up the few seconds it took to stop and let you in on the way up.
And sometimes....it even stops on the 5th floor on the way back down because the down arrow you pushed is still on.
Dumb logic that is and it annoys me the people who do it.
Jan 12th 2010, 3:45 pm
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Re: so...does repeatedly pressing the lift button...
That is illogical.
If you're on the 5th floor and want to go down:
...if a lift is going up...it will stop to pick you up...you then ride up to whereever the lift was originally going and then go back down to whereever you want to go passing through your original location.
But if you hadn't pushed the up...it would stop for you on the way down?
It has saved you absolutely no time at all and has only served to cost those going up the few seconds it took to stop and let you in on the way up.
And sometimes....it even stops on the 5th floor on the way back down because the down arrow you pushed is still on.
Dumb logic that is and it annoys me the people who do it.
If you're on the 5th floor and want to go down:
...if a lift is going up...it will stop to pick you up...you then ride up to whereever the lift was originally going and then go back down to whereever you want to go passing through your original location.
But if you hadn't pushed the up...it would stop for you on the way down?
It has saved you absolutely no time at all and has only served to cost those going up the few seconds it took to stop and let you in on the way up.
And sometimes....it even stops on the 5th floor on the way back down because the down arrow you pushed is still on.
Dumb logic that is and it annoys me the people who do it.
I am super in bullshitting...
Jan 12th 2010, 3:53 pm
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Re: so...does repeatedly pressing the lift button...
Example - I am stood on 5th floor, wanting to go up. Someone is in the lift above me, on their way down to floor 3. If I press the up button, this lift will pass me as its not going the way I want to go. If the lift I actually want is on G and people on floor 1, 2, 3, 4 have pressed up then I have to wait for all these people to get serviced before it comes to me. So, by pressing both, whichever is nearer will stop. Do you see now? Crikey, I was just trying to help out and I now have a terror campaign launched against me!
Jan 12th 2010, 3:55 pm
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Re: so...does repeatedly pressing the lift button...
Example - I am stood on 5th floor, wanting to go up. Someone is in the lift above me, on their way down to floor 3. If I press the up button, this lift will pass me as its not going the way I want to go. If the lift I actually want is on G and people on floor 1, 2, 3, 4 have pressed up then I have to wait for all these people to get serviced before it comes to me. So, by pressing both, whichever is nearer will stop. Do you see now? Crikey, I was just trying to help out and I now have a terror campaign launched against me!
Jan 12th 2010, 3:55 pm
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Re: so...does repeatedly pressing the lift button...
I did say we have 4 lifts here, that is why it works. Obviously if there was only one lift it wouldnt work!!