In Buenos Aires instead of having a maximum weight limit on elevators they limit the number of people that can get on, and people follow this rule very strictly. If the elevator stops at a floor and there is room to fit another person but according to the sign it is at full capacity, then the people on the elevator say there is no room. Some bigger office buildings have a person whose job it is to count people as they get on the elevator to keep too many from getting on. If a group of people is going somewhere together and the group is even just one person too big to all fit on the elevator, some of the group wait until the next elevator. All women exit the elevator first, even if they're at the back and have to slide around people. It's very polite, but not always the most efficient.
In Buenos Aires instead of having a maximum weight limit on elevators they limit the number of people that can get on, and people follow this rule very strictly. If the elevator stops at a floor and there is room to fit another person but according to the sign it is at full capacity, then the people on the elevator say there is no room. Some bigger office buildings have a person whose job it is to count people as they get on the elevator to keep too many from getting on. If a group of people is going somewhere together and the group is even just one person too big to all fit on the elevator, some of the group wait until the next elevator. All women exit the elevator first, even if they're at the back and have to slide around people. It's very polite, but not always the most efficient.
1 comment:
For real? They would seriously tell the fifth person there's simply not room for him/her? Ha ha I wish I only ever had to wait for a few people to get off on their floors on my way to the top floor of our office building. But then I'd be waiting longer for an elevator too, I imagine.
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