lift story no.2

There are 6 lifts at my work place all of them are in very bad shape and poorly maintained. Only recently has the management decided to upgrade the lifts. One of the lifts has been newly installed and its the fastest lift there now. Another one is in the midst of its upgrade and the rest are just pray hard it doesnt stall halfway. They say it takes 6 months to fully upgrade ONE lift.

So this one lift which has been fully upgraded is a stand alonte lift. It is not connected to the rest of the lifts. Like for example, usually if you press any lift button it will activate all the other lifts but this lift will only be active if you press the button at that particular lift. You get the drift.

So imagine you're on the highest level on this newly installed lift, level 21 and people on different level will press the button for the old lifts and the button for this new lift. So this is the scenario:

*bing*
*Twenty first floor, going down*
*bing*
*Twentieth floor, going down*
*bing*
*Nineteen floor, going down*
*bing*
*Eighteen floor, going down*
*bing* .....


All the way until *bing* *Ground floor, going up*

You get the drift. It can get pretty irritating when you're rushing for time.

On another note, i heard that if a lift fails to work in China, they will hire 100 - 200 people and fix the lift the very same day! How cool is that! Why take six months when it can be done in a day!