Though I work for RD2, I’ve recently been working on-site at a client’s office for the past few days. It’s a large company with an office in Las Colinas. In any case, the team and I (that is, the client team and I) went out for lunch together today. We headed off just before noon, and so the elevators were rather busy (especially as there’re multiple companies within other floors of this office building).
One of us pressed the “down” button and an elevator arrived a couple minutes later. The five of us got on — so far, so good — and then a few more people strolled around the corner and boarded the elevator. And, just as the elevator doors were about to close, a couple more people made a mad dash to jump on. By this point, it was fairly full; but, that should have been the end of it. However, there seems to be something about elevators that brings out the banal banter in corporate employees:
- Guy running: “Hold that elevator!”
- Elevator Person 1: “Oho! Can we fit one more?”
- [mild laughter among the group]
- Elevator Person 2: “Ok, everyone suck in!”
- Elevator Person 3: “Looks like we’re going to be cozy!”
There was a bit more nervous laughter among the group as the doors finally closed and then we descended to the ground floor. The elevator was full, to be sure, but not uncomfortably so. But is it the nature of elevators in general that brings out these comments or was it just because it was an elevator and it was full? Either way, this is one area of the human psyche that I’m unable to entirely understand.
yea…i am so with you. Can I say that I find it completely uncomfortable when people just talk to you in the elevator for no good reason? It’s like, I don’t know you and have no desire to. People are quite disturbing.