I hope you enjoy taking the stairs
I hope you enjoy taking the stairs
Work on elevators across B.C. could come to a halt as soon as Tuesday, after union negotiations broke down last week.
My office just sent out a message saying the elevator union workers are going on strike tomorrow and all elevators will be shut down.
The elevator industry is a huge cartel too. Lots of proprietary components and tools. If you need something rare or old, be prepared to wait 6 months to a year for service.
Damn things should just be standardized by law.
Sounds just like the McDonald's ice cream machines
Dairy Queen is better.
All industrial machines are like this now because every manufacture has to build a perfect snowflake. We have some mission critical parts with a 14 month back-order, so one good power flicker or flood and we loose a production line for the next year.
Fuck you Lenze and Siemens. I have seen crowd sourced 3D printers more reliable than the crap you produce.
Hope no disbaled poeple work there. For the able bodied taking the stairs is an inconvenience, for the disabled it's a barrier. I know several poeple, while they could climb a flight or two of stairs, it would wipe them out for DAYS if they did it.
Unfortunately, the people who should be concerned by that are the employers, and it's not historically common for them to give a shit amout their disabled employees enough to prioritize their access overall, let alone in particular as a result of this strike.
No kidding, this wouldn't affect just my building it would affect all of BC and the Yukon. The elevators were still working this morning and we got this message: "The strike has been averted as negotiations for elevator workers across B.C. are ongoing to establish a new collective agreement."
Why would that shut off all the elevators? Unless you're past an inspection or there's an actual issue it's not like they're pulling the cables or pushing buttons to make things go up or down on a daily basis.
Is there some safety/monitoring concern?
Who's going to release you when you get trapped? Any sensor fails, any component burns out, any seismic activity detected, and it will just stop until the techs arrive.
If you knew that the techs wouldn't arrive... then I would stock up on water, food, and sealed containers before entering that elevator.
In case it breaks there's no support.
Except firefighters, but disregard that