Cherie Killian Berry is the current North Carolina Commissioner of Labor, a member of the North Carolina Council of State and head of the North Carolina Department of Labor. Her picture (copied from Wikipedia, above) is posted in every single regulated elevator in NC. Living in NC all of my life, one of the first things I noticed when I got on the elevator at work in Bangalore, was the missing "sign off" from Cherie. Plain steel wall inside each one. Still, I get on. Every day. Our building is packed and people want to get to their floor. I did not realize that there were as many impatient people as me here! Also, it is so neat and unexpected when someone days "I like your blog". (A guy at my lunch table who I had never met said that today! Exciting that someone who does not know me, knows me, a little.) Another girl (that saw me in the elevator!) said the same thing. So nice to hear "a hello" from such a nice group of people, and random kind remarks. OK......sooooo... Back to the elevators. There is a bank of 6 where I work. 3 on each side. If you press an UP or DOWN button, an elevator immediately lights up, and so you move to stand right in front of this elevator. Yet, suddenly, you see everyone moving towards a completely DIFFERENT elevator! The plan has changed and new buttons have lit up on a completely DIFFERENT elevator. It is like this one that you had your eye on, has suddenly shut down. It happens very fast so you have to be ready. We all stand around like nervous cats, looking back and forth wondering which elevator door will open first. I have never seen anything like it, and it is certainly a time to remain alert. Another thing about elevators in India is that you can press a button for a certain floor, and if you have made a mistake you can take it back! Just press the button that you erroneously pushed, a second time, and the light goes off, and you have accidentally inconvenienced no one! It is the "edit undo" of the elevator. So, while Cherie K Berry is not here, Bangalore transport from floor to floor goes on...
That was so aptly described. I doubt if anyone can paint the elevator situation any better than this. Witty too. By the way, by law all the elevators are bound to have the certificate on display. Not sure why they don't do it here.
ReplyDeleteCherie Berie's's elevator standards need to "get on board" with the edit/undo feature. How nice would it be to "deselect" when you have accidentallly pressed the wrong button....vs have everyone look around to wonder "who pressed the wrong button" when no one gets off. :-)
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