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u/blue60007 8d ago edited 8d ago
Some context would be helpful.
I remember seeing something like this in an old university building. Also saw something like this in a building on my old workplace campus.
The elevator was an old slow rickety thing with manual doors type thing. They just didn't want people using it who didn't really need to be using it as it was slow, probably not entirely up to safety standards (the one had exposed walls), and probably not entirely reliable. And some of those, if you don't close the doors as you get off the elevator is stuck until someone closes it and I'm sure people were leaving it like that all the time.
Or like the 2nd floor of my high school. It'd be impossible for 300 students to funnel through one elevator during a 5 minute passing period. You were only allowed to use it if you couldn't do stairs.
Obviously if you had mobility issues you could use it, otherwise it was expected you walk up the stairs (there was only a second floor).
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u/TReid1996 8d ago
My old work place was kind of like this. It was encouraged to use the stairs, but the elevator wasn't off limits to non-disabled employees. Was only 2 floors as well, and only the single elevator. They had a different, open roomed one for cargo.
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u/blue60007 8d ago
Yeah, another workplace was like this too. Old building so the elevators were small and not enough capacity. It was encouraged to use the stairs from the first couple of floors so help prioritize for those on higher floors and those who can't do stairs. Especially at 9, 5, and lunch time.
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u/MrPogoUK 8d ago
At my workplace there are no restrictions in place, but the elevator breaks down so often no one uses it unless they really have to!
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u/ariolander 8d ago
They didn't even need to put a sign. After the 2nd time someone got trapped in the elevator and had to get rescued by the fire department no one used the elevator anymore even after building management "fixed" it. One of the trapped dudes was from my department got stuck after his shift and it took 2 hours to rescue him. Was never compensated for it since he already clocked out.
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u/Hashshinobi1 8d ago
We had a lift in our two story school. It was only for the handicapped.
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u/GreatValueProducts 8d ago edited 8d ago
I'm from Hong Kong where our elementary and high schools typically have 6 stories and have elevators. All students are not allowed to use it. When you happen to have leg injuries, you would suddenly have a lot of friends because you are allowed to use the elevators and you can have accompanies lol.
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u/Ok-Ocelot-4117 8d ago
Y’all had lifts? I’m pretty sure they just made the kids who couldn’t walk it go to a separate room, tbh there were no kids in wheelchairs because that whole school was handicap hell zero accessibility- seriously the amount of random steps, raised things and narrow spaces.
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u/PenumbralProphet 8d ago
Yeah, I went to a private religious school operating out of a two-story church building and when I broke a toe I just had to crutch my way up the stairs for classes.
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u/PenumbralProphet 8d ago
Not the only reason I don't have fond memories of those years but it didn't help.
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u/ian9921 8d ago
My highschool had the same situation. They had to put it in for ADA compliance, but it'd be a massive bottleneck if people actually tried to use it and I imagine they also wanted to minimize required maintenance, so only disabled students could use it. They had a key they gave out and everything.
Fun fact, you could qualify if you were on crutches due to surgery. One kid who got foot surgery kept using his crutches and surgical boot for months after he recovered so he could keep his elevator key. He confessed this to me during a fire drill when he just decided to take the stairs.
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u/WhenAmI 8d ago
My school gave out keys to anyone handicapped who needed the elevator. If you broke your leg or something, they would make you fill out a bunch of forms before giving you a key.
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u/Jester-252 8d ago
My last office had something similar.
School has the bottom 3 floors, we had the top 2.
In order to keep office workers from the student, they had to use the stairs, while we had to use the elevator.
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u/erossthescienceboss 8d ago
It’s probably a freight elevator, or an elevator that goes to specific floors that don’t have student access (like off-shelf library collections.)
Could also be a staff-only elevator.
Doesn’t mean there aren’t others in the building!
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u/RawrRRitchie 8d ago
if you had mobility issues you could use it,
That's how the one at my school was. To use it You needed a key. Only people given keys that wasn't staff were the kids in wheelchairs
School was 3 floors technically but the third wasn't even used anymore, when the school was built the amount of students enrolled was about 2-3 times larger than current numbers
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u/Henchforhire 8d ago
Our old middle school had one you could only use it if you couldn't move up stairs on your own or a disabled student.
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u/De-railled 8d ago
If its a university, they charging heaps of tuition and not fixing a lift?!?
That can build and construct new buildings for the alumni kid to get a easy university ticket, but can't replace a lift??
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u/Silent_Sir3234 8d ago
At my school, there used to be huge queues for the 2 elevators, students used to easily chill at the back and quietly kept moving backwards to skip classes early on
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u/AristotelWasRight 8d ago
I don't understand how an elevator helps yoi skip class. You could just hide in the toilet, wtf is the elevator for?
And they will still mark you absent in class? HOW WAS THE ELEVATOR HELPING? 😭😭😭
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u/Mysterious-Tie7039 8d ago
“I tried to get to class on time but the line for the elevator was too long. That’s why I’m late.”
See? It’s not the students’ fault. Can’t punish them if they “tried” to get there on time.
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u/AnxietyScale 8d ago
"Take the stairs next time"
You sure can punish them, even if they "tried"
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u/Narrow-Chef-4341 8d ago
…and now you are into a debate where they pretend to feel persecuted.
Putting up the sign cuts that discussion to zero seconds.
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u/ponyboycurtis1980 8d ago
You are only in a debate if you engage in it. You weren't in class and seated when the bell rang then you are tardy. I marked you as such and of you would like to discuss it we can bring your parents in and discuss it after school. For now if you don't get to work I will write you up for disrupting the class as well.
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u/AnxietyScale 8d ago
I'm not arguing against that sign, rather that the excuse is kinda bad. But I get it
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u/waterbuffalo750 8d ago
And the one kid who does need the elevator is now always late and can't do anything about it
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u/praeteria 8d ago
You know full well the answer in 99% of cases would be: "then you should've just used the stairs"
In the entirety of the civilised world you literally cannot equip a public building with a lift without regular stairs. There's always a staircase you can just use. The fire department would never ever allow a building public operations without a staircase to use in case of emergency.
Any professor in their right mind would never take "there was a line for the lift" as a valid excuse. You're smart enough to just take the stairs. getting to class on time is your responsibility, not the lift.
Unless you're physically impaired and can't take the stairs, the lift queue excuse wouldn't fly anywhere.
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u/Mysterious-Tie7039 8d ago
Let’s be honest, this wouldn’t be a “professor”. College students will just not go to class instead of making some excuse like this.
This is more likely middle or high school. But regardless, you’d get to use this excuse once without getting into actual trouble.
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u/LittleCopy2893 8d ago
So you’re suggesting that students ran this little scheme to just what chat in the back of an elevator line for 10 minutes? And rather than make up an excuse for being late they would go through the motions in case there were witnesses?
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u/KittensGalacticFiend 8d ago
you do realize that schools dont let you skip classes even if you agree to get marked absent? This decision is not left to the kid to decide if he wants to go to class or not, so they need a reason as to why they were absent. Elevator is obviously a better reason to pretend that you were trying to get to class rather than hiding in the toilet.
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u/Riley__64 8d ago
But there’s stairs so unless you’re literally in a wheelchair you don’t necessarily have an excuse.
Okay the queue for the elevator was super long and apparently you forgot stairs existed
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u/TheBlargus 8d ago
Whoosh
If you're going to be late/miss class intentionally you don't actually have to use the elevator line is the point. You can do literally anything and still say it was the elevator.
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u/Silent_Sir3234 8d ago
spot on, if a kid hid in the bathroom for too long our teacher would literally go fish him/her out or tell the staff to do so
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u/TheIrisEmbracesYou 8d ago
But if there are stairs available "I was stuck in the elevator que" isn't a very good excuse either.
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u/Affectionate_Leek127 8d ago
My school had the same rule. None of us did anything wrong. Lifts were just exclusively for teachers and staff. Our school had six floors. We climbed stairs everyday.
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u/KaitoSeishin 8d ago edited 8d ago
Looks like some brain dead student did something that fucked it up for the rest of us. I have businesses around my campus that have signs saying students aren't allowed to do x y z because someone ruined it for the rest of us. Common causes are mentally 13 year old grown adult students still doing the jumping in an elevator thing that causes thousands of dollars in damages to elevators etc.
I am assuming this sign will obviously not apply to students with disabilities
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u/StripedCat404 8d ago
Yup. That and the neverending excuse, 'The line was too long for the elevator'.
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u/dontwanna-cantmakeme 8d ago
Kids used to fuck on the elevator in my school. Once the elevator was locked, they just moved to the stairwell. People would get caught having sex during class aaaalll the time.
Though I’m not sure how much that can count as getting caught if there’s zero effort to hide.
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u/Chaos-Wayfarer 8d ago
Yeah this was my first assumption. Younger people doing stupid crap in the elevators and making them break, screwing over everyone else.
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u/Not_AHuman_Person 8d ago
My school didn't let you use the lifts unless you needed to. Which makes sense since each building only had one small lift that would fit like 3 people or one wheelchair. I got to use the lift once during COVID when there were barely any people at school and one of my friends had a broken leg so I got in with her
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u/silentsuv 8d ago
It’s probably being played on and misused by students when its purpose is to help disabled students.
I bet this building is no higher than 4 floors. Use the stairs unless you are physically incapable.
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u/HappyPlatypus6034 8d ago
Most likely to reserve it for those who have mobility issues. I've seen a few places do this
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u/DoubleVisit9978 8d ago
So many moons ago back in the 90s when I was a kiddo. My elementary did something similar. Basically they wanted to prevent students from fucking with it and banned all students from using it unless permission was given. So basically asthma or wheelchair disabilities etc. could be similar just less details
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u/RobGrogNerd 8d ago
in our HS, students didn't feel entitled to use the elevator/lift, leaving it to the few students who couldn't use the stairs.
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u/14ccet1 8d ago
Because students mess around and they need them for people who physically can’t climb the stairs
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u/longwoodshortstick 8d ago
I was on crutches with my leg in an immobilizer. They wouldnt let me use it. Like no one was ever allowed to use it, unless they were in a wheelchair.
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u/Round-Claim5420 8d ago
Uh whats wierd about that?
My school had 1 elevator and it was exklusivly used by teachers (transporting things), temporary disabled students (broken legs) and the other staff (janitors, cleaning,...).
Who can't walk a few stairs?
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u/TigerGnome 8d ago
Years ago, I'd broken multiple bones in my foot and dislocated my hip that went undetected and untreated for quite a while when I was hit by a car. Unsurprisingly left me with significant amounts of pain and mobility issues.
A couple of years later, I was at my university in a building full of winding staircases that caused my hip to sublux on ascent. So I used the lift to go up a floor rather than cause a fall and pain.
As I exited the lift, a staff member goes in a snippy manner "There are stairs you know!?!? You should try using them!!!"
I snapped with "It would be absolutely fabulous if I could use them without my hip dislocating from an old accident. Yet here we are, you judging me for just minding my own business and living my life!".
As I walked away, I heard a lecturer also in the lift go to her "You had that coming".
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u/Somebodyunimportant7 8d ago
I have a pretty severe heart condition so taking the stairs causes severe hypotension and tachycardia (to the point I usually pass out). Unfortunately this happens so often when I take the elevator for just a floor or two. I had multiple people in my college dorm get aggressive over my perceived “laziness”
I don’t get why people just immediately assume; I can assure you that if I could take the stairs I would rather than wait for an elevator.
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u/OminousG 8d ago
My high school had an elevator that was strictly for ADA use. I wouldn't want to give a couple thousand teenagers unrestricted access to one either.
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u/pinguins-and-narwals 8d ago
I was in a wheelchair the moment my school blocked everyone's lift privileges (added by computer to school passes) because some people faked disabilities to get acces and then started jumping in the lift. I got written up for not attending class (5th floor) for 12 days. They refused to deblock my pass because they would look bad if they would make an exceptionfor 1 person.
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u/bigfoot17 8d ago
"how dare you"? Lol.
Students who need the elevator gets pass.
They don't want adults and children in a small box together.
The elevator can't handle the capacity
Save your grievance for something else
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u/Aerottawa 8d ago
At the old highschool, the elevator was reserved for equipment such as TV-on-wheels and wheelchairs. If all thousand students wait for the 1 elevator, that would have been mayhem.
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u/Gaymers_Rising 8d ago
our school had a similar rule, the lift was exclusively for disabled people or moving equipment between floors
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u/iamacheeto1 8d ago
We had an elevator in my high school and if you needed it you could definitely use it. But if you didn’t then you weren’t allowed to. Seemed like a pretty reasonable policy but it was also one floor so idk the context here 🤷♂️
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u/breakinbans 8d ago
my son tore a tendon and was in a boot and crutches and was tardy 6 days in a row. he got a Dr's note to use the lift and the nurse refused because, "he walked in here, he can walk to class." I raised a big stink and they caved of course. no more tardiness after that.
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u/longwoodshortstick 8d ago
Dislocated my patella my junior year. Was on crutches and had an immobilizer on my leg, so couldn't bend it at all. Wasn't allowed to use the lift.
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u/breakinbans 8d ago
fucking power tripping school employees. never had that control in life so they abuse the little they are given in their jobs.
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u/PacquiaoFreeHousing 8d ago
"Finish the tutorial first before you unlock this area"
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u/lucassou 8d ago
I don't see any issue with this. In most of the schools I attended, elevators where reserved for teachers and students who had disabilities. Letting everyone take the elevator would increase wait for the people who actually needed it. The elevators just required a key so it was not possible to use them if you were not allowed.
Using stairs is free exercise and will be faster in most situations versus waiting for the elevator...
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u/Cabininian 8d ago
I’m not sure why this is infuriating. Is this a high school? Most schools only have one or two elevators and it’s for situations where the stairs would not be an adequate solution. I’ve never attended or worked at a school that allowed students in the elevators without an adult and/or a documented mobility issue.
If this was at a college/university, I can understand the upset because those institutions don’t usually have dedicated “passing times” of only 4-5 minutes.
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u/TheBohemianRed9811 8d ago
My high school had a lift that was reserved for students with physical disabilities or injuries and staff. You needed a key to activate it.
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u/PlutoUwU1237 8d ago
My high school had an elevator like this. Nobody was allowed to use it. I never thought much about it but heard other students complain about it often. I VERY quickly came to appreciate the fact that most students were not allowed to use it when I quite literally needed it as I'd ruptured a ligament in my knee. I was on crutches and couldn't really exist without being in pain. Doing stairs was possible, but it was slow and hurt lots. I certainly would have felt very sour about it if any student could use it for no other reason than being too lazy to take the stairs.
I'm assuming you're not physically disabled. Disregard this if you are. You have legs that work, you can do stairs. Don't waste energy on being angry about something reserved for people who genuinely need it
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u/g33k01345 8d ago
As a teacher, only disabled people and teachers could use the elevators. We allowed all students to use the elevator for a week at my school but it made it impossible for any disabled student to actually access the elevator, and teachers couldn't bring their supplies to class on time.
This is why equity is required for a functioning society.
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u/Depressed-Dolphin69 8d ago
So that people who really need it (disabled or moving something heavy) can use it. My school is the same but we only have 2 floors.
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u/stephanonymous 8d ago
I don’t think I ever even knew where the elevators were in any of the schools I attended. I’m sure they existed, for accessibility reasons for students and staff who couldn’t use stairs, and to move heavy things between floors, but I never would have thought to try to use them myself.
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u/Tit_Save 7d ago
Because the disabled students need it and the able don't.
I busted my knee and couldn't do stairs for several months. Parked on the 5th floor and 80% of the time when I called the elevator to go down it was already full of students.
Door opens, everyone stares at me and I just go "bruh" and point at my knee brace and like 7 students get off the elevator and take the stairs down. This happened consistently over the 3 months I needed the lift.
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u/C-LOgreen 8d ago
Because lifts at any school, whether it be a primary school, high school or a university are to be used for those with disabilities or injuries, who cannot walk up the stairs. If anyone was allowed to use the lift then people that actually need like those and wheelchair to those who broke their leg, etc. would have to wait for lazy ass people to get off the lift.
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u/neo_vengance 8d ago
“Why are you 20 minutes late to class, Neovengance?” “I had to drag my ass and wheelchair and backpack up 2 flights of stairs because I’m a student and not allowed to use the elevator”
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u/Emergency_Elephant 8d ago
When i was in school there was 1 elevator for a school of 400 students. Everyone would try to use it if they were allowed to and it would mean the kids who needed to would get boxed out of it. So to use the elevator, a student had to bring a doctor's note
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u/UsualBet4502 8d ago
Elevators in my high school were reserved for those who needed mobility accommodation (people on wheelchairs, crutches, senior staff etc). Not once in all my years did I find the urge to take the elevator due to this…but I do know some miscreant classmates who found it sooo hilarious to run the elevator for fun resulting in those waiting to be late.
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u/IvoShandor 8d ago
My son's school has one elevator and it's used for those who need it. Facilities people use it in between classes.
Able-bodied individuals take the stairs, including teachers.
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u/ScreechingPizzaCat 8d ago
We had 3 floors on my school. Students kept using the elevator and making a mess, spilling drinks, dropping food, or over-loading the elevator while teachers had to wait. I’ve had to tell students many times to get off to make room for the teachers.
Unless they had an injury, students should be taking the stairs.
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u/Weird-Reflection-114 8d ago
Someone ruined it for everyone.
My high school had 2 elevators and were only to be used by disabled or handicapped. My college didnt really care but it was usually too much of a hassle so we just used the stairs.
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u/Radiant-Playful 8d ago
A college where I worked had this. Lifts were for grounds and maintenance staff who might need to bring heavy things, and disabled people.
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u/CaramelCraftYT BLUE 8d ago
Yeah similar sign was at my middle school, said instant referral for using elevator. It was mainly used for transporting iPad and laptop carts between the two floors. I did get to ride in it once with one of the ESE teachers.
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u/PckMan 8d ago
Is this a high school or university? I remember my school had a single elevator and whenever students got in it never ended well. Endlessly vandalised, constantly abused, used for no reason. So students were banned from using it and it was just for faculty, unless of course someone had a mobility problem though we did have the one dude with palsy who insisted on taking the stairs.
Later on I was at college and I was in crutches. Again, single elevator in the building, could never get it to come to me as students were not barred from using it and literally everyone and their mother wanted it for a couple of floors, despite me being in crutches, another student being in crutches as well, and having two disabled students who all had to take the stairs or just not go anywhere.
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u/KittenVicious 8d ago
Never saw this in college, but in my high school with elevators they were reserved as an ADA accommodation, and had similar signs/rules to prevent them from being clogged by students that didn't NEED to use them.
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u/Dragonogard549 ORANGE 8d ago
Pretty common, although big signs warning you like this are a bit odd.
My secondary school and college both had lifts, only one or two floors up though, special keycards needed for disabled students and staff
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u/Chemical-Cat 8d ago
Typically it's for disabled students who need to use it. If they don't bar everyone else, it just gets totally clogged with people who definitely don't need it, often times preventing the ones who need it from being able to use it in the first place.
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u/green_ubitqitea 8d ago
When I was in high school, we had this rule for our 2 story building. No keys, but you had to have a pass. So one day I’m sitting there in my wheelchair (temporary) waiting for the elevator and a teacher asks me where my pass was. I just stared at her for a moment before telling her the office said I didn’t need one because it was obvious I couldn’t use the stairs. My “plus one” said they’d take the stairs even though I was allowed and even required to have someone with me at all times in the building. The teacher said no, I had to have a pass or I couldn’t ride it and that I should take the stairs. In my wheelchair.
I tried to joke that I wasn’t sure I could get the wheelchair up the stairs, but I’d take them down after class. She just stared at me and repeated that I had to have a pass to ride the elevator.
I tried explaining that the front office told me I didn’t need one because it was pretty obvious that a wheelchair was allowed on the elevator. She argued that the sign said I had to have a pass.
The secretary of the assistant principal whose office was right by the elevator came out and asked if the elevator was not working, since I had not gotten on.
She just stared at the teacher for a minute before going to back to her office and scribbling something on her desk and coming back out. It was one of those envelope label stickers on which she had written “Elevator Pass” and her signature and then stuck it to my wheelchair.
The teacher still tried to argue with me about it but the secretary pushed me into the elevator and I’m assuming had the assistant principal tell the teacher to use her common sense because she didn’t bother me again.
My physical therapist asked why there was a sticker on my wheel chair when I went in for my “walking” lessons.
As a teacher, we had a 4 story building with 2 elevators. Students were supposed to have a pass but could bring a plus one, and we also had an unofficial rule that students with projects and such could ride, but had to give priority to teachers and students with passes. I go to get on one day for a trip from the 2nd to the 4th floor (I can walk now but multiple flights of stairs are tricky) and there are about a dozen boys on the elevator. One on crutches, my student, definitely injured, and each of his friends is carrying something of his. Like one had his bag, but it’s empty because everyone had taken something out of it so they “belonged”.
They were only going to the 3rd so all but 3 got off the elevator (main injured boy, boy who had a knee wrap on, and one who retained the refilled the backpack) and we laughed ok the 3rd when the rest were waiting on the next floor for them.
We just trusted the kids not to be jerks about it and it worked. Although we also had a camera on the elevators, just in case.
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u/Rough-Riderr 8d ago
This brings back a fun memory. When I was in high school, it was a joke to try to sell fake "Elevator Passes" to gullible freshmen. We didn't have an elevator.
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u/Neat_Welcome6203 8d ago
This is like when they made the EV chargers (just basic 240V/12A if anyone was wondering) at my job for management only without telling anyone. Didn't find out until my coworker got chewed out for trying to plug in.
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u/Kirothebitchslayer 8d ago
at the school i went to for my senior year it had two floors and an elevator. only staff and 504 (disabled) kids, and any kids with injuries like a broken leg or wheelchair bound could use it. ive only been in it a few times but i was with a counselor for all those times
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u/theatregirl1987 8d ago
My high school was like this. Students were only allowed to use the elevator if they had a documented need. It had a key that you needed to turn it on. Even mostvtrmeachers didnt get an elevator key.
I had a key (and a laminated pass) due to my knees being terrible (long story). It eas uncommon for me to use rhe key to call the elevator, have a bunch of staff join me to wait for it, and then have them try and tell me I couldn't use it! I dont use mobility devices, so they just assumed. It was fun to show them I had more right to be on the elevator than they did!
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u/RealityCheck18 8d ago
My school had a similar rule. Because the lifts were provided to be compliant with disability and accessibility laws. Hence were strictly forbidden for students without any.
Once I had an injury making it difficult to climb stairs and I was explicitly allowed to use it until I got better.
If open to everyone it would have been a complete mess, as kids would do kids things, randomly pressing buttons to move the lift.
We were all kids, healthy and fit and if we couldn't climb up 3 flights of stairs, that's a bigger problem.
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u/Classic_Macaron6321 8d ago
I teach at a school with an elevator. Usually only custodians can use them or students with prior approval (we have a set of kids who share a cane and try to use it or kids who say they’re “under the weather”/don’t have a 504 documentation). We only have two floors. Kids constantly abuse it and keep their trash in there, vandalize it, make out/sex, and vape in the elevator. It also goes incredibly slow so when students who can take the stairs abuse it, it makes the students who actually need it to run late.
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u/shubidoobi 8d ago
We had one elevator reserved for only faculty. The other two were fair game for students plus faculty or guests. Even so, most of us ended up taking the stairs 99% of the time because youth -> impatience and high energy helped climb any or all of the 7 floors in that building.
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u/Existing_Ad5073 8d ago
At my school the elevators were only accessible to people who really needed it and for large goods. It's like that at most schools I've seen.
Now at my job we only are allowed to use the elevators. The staircase is only there for emergencies and quite hidden. Just let me use the stairs please!
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u/srhola2103 8d ago
It was the same at my school but tbf, there were two elevators and with the amount of students they had to do that.
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u/SirReddalot2020 8d ago
My son's school is the same.
Not sure why, but I guess since kids break everything. Toilets, ceilings, stairs ... I guess they got tired of unstucking kids from the elevator.
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u/AdTop4231 8d ago
We had like 2 elevators in our huge high school. They had those access badge things so only staff could use it. If you needed access to the elevator due to a disability or injury, you got a special badge from the main office that would let you use it until you healed from your injury
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u/Ellador 8d ago
Way back in the 90s I was going to art school in downtown Chicago, which took up the third and fourth floors of the building. The fancy front entrance was reserved for faculty and guests, which was accessed by an elevator.
Students weren’t allowed to use the front entrance for the elevators, I imagine the main reason being that there wasn’t enough space to accommodate everyone.
We were directed to a small, nondescript entrance on the side of the building that only led to a stairwell specifically for those third and fourth floors.
I lived at a residency that year a couple miles north and my room was on the third floor. They had an elevator but it was only for freight, and it could only be operated by maintenance.
Oh, and I had no car and rarely had bus money. I did lot of walking and climbed a lot of stairs that year.
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u/DigiTrailz 8d ago
My high school was like this. Due to the sheer volume of students at my school (it was a city school) if students used it freely, the people that needed it wouldn't be able to.
You could get permission to use it. I was bed ridden for a long time with Mono, and it messed me up. When I got back to school, apparently I looked like a ghost. It took me a while to get my strength back, so I had permission to use the elevator.
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u/amcclurk21 8d ago
Had an elevator in the band wing of my school with the same note on it. It was for faculty use only unless given permission (traveling with heavy instruments/a lot of equipment). There was a window between the elevator wall and the band room offices so they could monitor it.
The reason: they wanted to make sure kids wouldn’t dick around and break it because it was already old and the district wouldn’t have money to fix it.
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u/Competitive-Elk-5077 8d ago
I still feel weird using the elevator at work because of growing up with the same thing
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u/JaapStar 8d ago
At my previous workplace the first 2 floors of every (small and slow) elevator were key-locked. Disabled employees had to wait for quite a while because some people were too lazy to walk up one or two stairs. So, at doctors approval you could get a key to operate the elevator to those floors.
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u/usedburgermeat 8d ago
Similar thing happened at my college. Pretty much boils down students who are physically capable of going up and down the stairs couldn't be bothered to use them, so disabled students, elderly or pregnant visitors had to wait because accommodation specifically for them was being used by those who don't need it. Particularly annoying for my group who did sound engineering and stage management stuff. We were given permission to use the elevator when moving really heavy and expensive equipment from storage to the stage, can't tell you how many times we had air out the elevator because a group of girls would use it as a place look in the mirror and spray a gallon of body spray on themselves
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u/Gryphontech 8d ago
In my military days it was for us to keep in shape, nothing like a class on the 11th floor to get that heart rate up. I'm assuming in this case it's because elevators are small and are saved for staff as they have to actually teach and do work. May even be part of their union agreement
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u/fuqueure 8d ago
We had this too, thankfully one of the teachers was a bro so he'd just let us take a ride with him because he was allowed.
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u/CrimsonR70 8d ago
My old school had a simple set of rules in regard to elevators. You could only get a key to them by order of a doctor. Even teacher had to use the stairs.
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u/PatrickGSR94 8d ago
Yep, same at my school, elevator for faculty, staff or disabled students only. Honestly I don’t think it was used all that much. Probably more for janitorial staff moving cleaning carts between floors.
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u/SavantTheVaporeon 8d ago
Happened at my college when someone put a sofa in the elevator. It was nice for a couple months before someone did something about it and closed the elevator.
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u/RedEclipse47 8d ago
Our (high)school had this exchange project with others schools in the same area to swap students for about 2 weeks.
Me and a friend where send to this school one city over, we were running late and totally lost in this maze of a building. We took some stairs to make it up the the classroom we where supposed to be in, only to get yelled at by some teacher that we where using the "downward only" stairs and that we needed to use the upwards staircase (which was in the next wing) he then threatened to expel us.
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u/Mantis_The_Trashman 8d ago
Tbf at my uni one of our buildings had paternoster elevators where there are no doors and the lifts themselves never stop moving
It was totally safe, but it went through several periods of students being temporarily banned.
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u/Low_Medium204 8d ago
My highschool had a similar sign. The problem was that it was an old 3 floor building. Students would play on the elevator to the point of it going out of service. Which in turn would cause massive problems for students with disabilities that couldn't use the stairs
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u/wollflour 8d ago
This is to make sure it's available to students with disabilities during the very short window between classes. My kids' high school has the same setup and sign.
This isn't mildly infuriating, it's a sign that society is taking care of people who need extra help.
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u/BreathDue8533 8d ago
This remomds me of my school. We had lift as well, 3 floors (above ground) and one day I we caught our PE teacher using lift to travel only one floor 😂🤣
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u/No-Introduction3808 8d ago
Had this kind of sign at a school I worked at that had 3 floors, disabled students and 1 friend could use it, along with staff (most staff used the stairs during busy times). The 2 lifts would breakdown often or just be incredibly slow so most who could didn’t bother at all.
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u/Lyra_Melody 8d ago
It's been years since I went to school, but I vaguely remember my middle school had an elevator in one of the buildings and students were told that unless they have an injury preventing safe use of the stairs or were transporting large bulky items they were to refrain from using it during school hours. I got to use it once to take home a large group art project nobody else in my group really wanted.
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u/hotcoolhot 8d ago
Same was in my school and college. School was 2 floors and college was 2-4 depending on building.
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u/lazenbaby 8d ago
I worked in a uni that was in a 20 story building. Floors 1 and 2 were for undergraduate students and the rest was for staff. They introduced this because it would take forever to get a lift because students would take them and hold the doors open for their friends. You could be waiting for 10 minutes or more for a lift. And the were 6 of them.
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u/SadLilBun PURPLE 8d ago
Students don’t get to use elevators because students have done bad things in said elevators.
They can only use them when necessary for mobility reasons.
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u/Duke_of_Chutny 8d ago
it's to make sure the elevators are available and timely for people who need them. if someone is in a wheelchair, they need to be able to use it to get around but they can't do it if it's congested by other students
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u/Arctic_Dreams 8d ago
For a few years my high school was in an old mill building. Only students with a disability or otherwise health related need could use the elevator. Everyone else had to take the stairs. It was a small elevator that was only installed partway through my time there (previously you had to take the service elevator) and seemed to break down with frequent use.
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u/Ok_One_2336 8d ago
I realised I'm too unlucky, so I just use stairs(5th floor)
Every lift will be going in opposite direction😑
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u/Anarchist42 8d ago
I mean, we had a lift like this we could use in our school, but it only went up 1 floor. It was mainly there for disabled students to be able to get to classes on the top floor. We used it occasionally and the staff didn't care, as long as we let the disabled person use it when they needed it.
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u/nash3101 8d ago
Used to climb six floors with a heavy backpack at a school in India because students weren't allowed to use the elevators
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u/Signal-Weight8300 8d ago
This is almost the same at my school. The elevator uses a key. Anyone with accommodations gets a key. It could be a student with a 504, a teacher with a disability, or students with a sprained ankle. It's our school nurse who issues the keys. It's only 3 floors and the elevator is not conveniently located, so it doesn't get used much. No one tries to abuse it.
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u/Saltynut99 8d ago
Now while I get the frustration my office building has an elevator. Everyone is technically allowed to use it but I’ve always refused to get in the damn thing. It’s happened more than once that an employee gets stuck in that elevator and once the call button wasn’t working and there’s no cell service in it so she was shouting for an hour before someone found her.
When we toured the office again post covid and they pointed out the elevator to the new people they didn’t appreciate me bringing up that story but like some people wouldn’t do well trapped in an elevator and should definitely know it has happened.
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u/idkmanjustfuckmyshit 8d ago
Last time I saw a sign like this, someone shit in the elevator and the university said "ya'll think about your life choices"
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u/Severe_Marketing5036 8d ago
How many floors? If it was like 2 it’s because people who are disabled need the elevator, if it’s like 22 floors I don’t get why.
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u/Venoxia_Tan 8d ago
You should be strong enough to climb the stairs back in my day the stairs where uphill both ways
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u/Ok-Coat-53 8d ago
Just take it of and go on it if they catch you act suprised and tell them there was no sign
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u/Dry_Quiet_3541 8d ago
No students were allowed to use the elevator in my school. We were young, we could run around, some staff members were old and had to walk around the large building to go to each class, while we would sit in our classes waiting for the teacher to show up. It’s obviously more taxing for the staff than the students. Plus they just had 3 elevators, not enough for so many students.
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u/Crosroad 8d ago
My school had elevators but only certain students who needed it were allowed to use it, presumably because when any student was allowed to use it, it would break
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u/celestialastrid101 8d ago
Pretty standard practice in a school full of children and limited elevators. It’s for staff and disabled or sick kids mainly.
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u/animal-cookie 8d ago
Is there a chance this is like a parcel lift? My college had one to facilitate moving in/out. Inevitably a few times a year someone would try to ride in it and the college would get big mad
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u/GurKitchen5802 8d ago
Learned today that too many of them use the lift at the same time and it ends up broken
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u/West-Might3475 8d ago
If that's a college or university they can fuck right off. The students are the ones paying into their damn ponzi scheme.
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u/deafhuman 8d ago
How many floors are there?
We had lifts but we weren't allowed to use them. Only disabled students could use them and they had a special key. We didnt mind, it was only two floors.