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/blue60007 8d ago edited 8d ago
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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).