Lift etiquette

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I work in a building with a lot of floors so the morning lifts can get cosy. A reasonable number of people get in the lift to go to the first and second floors and it got me wondering - outside of any medical reason not to, should people not just walk up the stairs (for the first floor, at least)? It's even odder when people do this on the way home (when it probably would be quicker to go down the stairs).

So what do people think about this, is it poor form? Laziness? Perfectly fine? What's your own personal limit for going up stairs?
 
It isn't perfectly fine, it is the absolute pinnacle of laziness and should not be normalised. If I could re-programme the way our lift system works (you select your floor on a touchpad and it assigns a lift to you based on how busy it is), I would put anybody seeking a < 3-floor transition to the bottom of the priority list.
 
When our lifts were being replaced, 2 at a time out of 4 lifts, I took the stairs up to the 9th floor pretty much every day. Annoyingly, though, you can't get through the door to the office without someone letting you in from inside, and that's the case for most floors, so I try not to get too irritated by the low-floors people using the lift.

I almost always take the stairs down, though.
 
TNGL said:
If I could re-programme the way our lift system works (you select your floor on a touchpad and it assigns a lift to you based on how busy it is), I would put anybody seeking a < 3-floor transition to the bottom of the priority list.
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How are you going to handle disabled or injured people without getting sued?
 
Take what ever way up or down you want and if some prat decided to judge you on whether or not you should be using the stairs or even just floating up to your floor then at least give them a chance to apologize before you interface the pointy end of your shoe and there ass to hoof the oiks out of the lift.
 
Mr Blonde said:
Easy - disabled go in ground floor offices and the injured go in ambulances.
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If they worked in a ground floor office they’d not need a the lift in the first place!

He’s querying say a disabled staff member working for a company with offices on the first floor.
 
In the morning I take the lift to the top floor then work my way down to the 1st floor where i work and then take the stairs down in the evening....

Ill wait for someone on here to get unreasonable before i explain why though :)
 
Agreed on the laziness part.

I'll normally get the lift to the third floor if I'm carrying something. But usually the lift is quite slow so I can get up/down three flights of stairs before the lift does - gives people quite a bit of a shock when they see me at the top/bottom before them - almost like a deja vu.
 
If it takes longer to wait for a lift than walk, walk.
If not, don't care.

That's me. Don't care what anyone else does.
 
maybe it's fake new from google / not uk-centric.

Staircase and stairway accidents constitute the second leading cause of accidental injury, second only to motor vehicle accidents. Each year, there are 12,000 stairway accident deaths.
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but agree stairs are fun exercise during the day .. 2 at a go.

edit: not quite as bad in uk https://www.shponline.co.uk/resources/stair-safety-day-25-facts-about-stair-safety/
25 stair safety facts:
  1. In the UK there is a fall on stairs every 90 seconds. (Source: BS 5395-1:2010[1])
  2. During 2015 there were 787 deaths in England and Wales caused by a fall on and from steps or stairs. (Source: Office for National Statistics[2])
  3. This is a 20.5% increase on the same figures in 2012 (653 deaths in England and Wales).
  4. The largest proportion of accidents among older people are falls from stairs or steps, with over 60% of deaths resulting from accidents on stairs. (Source: The Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents[3])
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I always use stairs, if the option is there, as long as its not more than about 10 stories :P
 
TNGL said:
If I could re-programme the way our lift system works (you select your floor on a touchpad and it assigns a lift to you based on how busy it is), I would put anybody seeking a < 3-floor transition to the bottom of the priority list.
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I just keep mashing my floor's button on the touchpad until it thinks I have filled up the lift and voila I have a lift to myself :):p

/ruining it for everyone
 
I work on the 2nd floor and always take the stairs. Partly because the lift is super dodgy and breaks down every 5 minutes and partly because I watched that resident evil film where the guy gets trapped in the doors of a lift and I've just not been a great fan since.
 
HybridX said:
In the morning I take the lift to the top floor then work my way down to the 1st floor where i work and then take the stairs down in the evening....

Ill wait for someone on here to get unreasonable before i explain why though :)
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"work your way down" - that's ambiguous - do you mean via lift or starts? You only mention stairs specifically at the end.

My first guess is you work in a post room on the 1st floor? Or maybe you're in some sort of maintenance role and and need to do something a floor at a time starting at the top?

My second guess is you're too cheap for a gym membership but too lazy to go up the stairs and "work your way down" means you run down the stairs starting form the top???

My third guess is you really really like sliding down bannisters but your wife won't let you do it at home and so you get in super early and then you have a whole building's worth of bannisters to slide down a floor at a time.

My last guess is slinky's... the big spring like toys that were popular in the 80s/90s... you get in super early and you set one off at the top of the building and then watch it go all the way down, adjusting it floor by floor.

So what is it damn it.. give me an answer now! (is that unreasonable enough?) :)
 
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