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Going down?
Jun. 1st, 2004 08:58 amOne of the two most unreliable elevators in my experience is down for maintenance. Again. These cantankerous machines are palpable evidence against going with the lowest bidder.
Inasmuch as we are used to service outages, the current one is well into its third week, with no sign of improvement. Yesterday I learned the cause of the delay.
1)The elevator is a poorly-maintained cheap piece of shit The motor burned out.
2)The building owners are penny-pinching assholes A new motor is fairly expensive
3)I mean, these guys are fucking tightwads! So they have shipped the motor off to the US to have it rewound.
That was three weeks ago, so presumably it has been lost in the mail, they have hired cheap child-labour to manually wind the coils, or they are waiting for enough other motors to burn out so that they can salvage a bunch of used wire, tie the ends together and shave a few more dollars off the cost of repairs.
I guess the lone upside to all of this is that it encourages me to take the stairs on occasion.
Inasmuch as we are used to service outages, the current one is well into its third week, with no sign of improvement. Yesterday I learned the cause of the delay.
1)
2)
3)
That was three weeks ago, so presumably it has been lost in the mail, they have hired cheap child-labour to manually wind the coils, or they are waiting for enough other motors to burn out so that they can salvage a bunch of used wire, tie the ends together and shave a few more dollars off the cost of repairs.
I guess the lone upside to all of this is that it encourages me to take the stairs on occasion.
