This happened a while back, and I was reminded of it because I'm covering this particular site again.
This site is a hospital, and actually encompanses all of their off-site buildings, including the second (smallel) hospital about 25 minutes to the north.
So one day a few months back I had to go to the second hospital to do a full sweep of all the copiers we maintain up there (make sure they were working, had plenty of paper, etc) as well as do a supply inventory. This meant I had to explore each of the 5 floors and take several trips in the elevator.
Partway through the task, I was on the 3rd floor waiting for the elevator to go up to the 4th floor. Also waiting was a woman and her wheelchair-bound mother.
The rightmost elevator arrived, and the doors started to open. The woman began wheeling her mother towards the elevator while I hung back a few steps to give them enough room to maneuver, but the second the doors finished opening they started to close again!
I lunged for the UP button and pressed it but it was too late. The elevator had already started going back up.
Woman: Wow....she was really impatient.
Yep...the woman already in the elevator decided that she was too important and had started stabbing the door close button the moment the elevator stopped on the 3rd floor, thus slamming the door in the face of a wheelchair bound person.
(Contrary to rumors, in some elevators the door close buttons DO work, and this was one of them).
I admit it is frustrating if you are in a hurry and the elevator stops at a floor other than the one you want, but that is just the nature of the beast. Doing what she did was rude as all hell, and no different than cutting in line at the store or or really an other SC-type behavior.
Bitch
This site is a hospital, and actually encompanses all of their off-site buildings, including the second (smallel) hospital about 25 minutes to the north.
So one day a few months back I had to go to the second hospital to do a full sweep of all the copiers we maintain up there (make sure they were working, had plenty of paper, etc) as well as do a supply inventory. This meant I had to explore each of the 5 floors and take several trips in the elevator.
Partway through the task, I was on the 3rd floor waiting for the elevator to go up to the 4th floor. Also waiting was a woman and her wheelchair-bound mother.
The rightmost elevator arrived, and the doors started to open. The woman began wheeling her mother towards the elevator while I hung back a few steps to give them enough room to maneuver, but the second the doors finished opening they started to close again!
I lunged for the UP button and pressed it but it was too late. The elevator had already started going back up.
Woman: Wow....she was really impatient.
Yep...the woman already in the elevator decided that she was too important and had started stabbing the door close button the moment the elevator stopped on the 3rd floor, thus slamming the door in the face of a wheelchair bound person.
(Contrary to rumors, in some elevators the door close buttons DO work, and this was one of them).
I admit it is frustrating if you are in a hurry and the elevator stops at a floor other than the one you want, but that is just the nature of the beast. Doing what she did was rude as all hell, and no different than cutting in line at the store or or really an other SC-type behavior.
Bitch
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