Using the elevator for 1 floor

[FelixDeCat]

I work on the 9th floor. I use the elevators to get there but walk up them at least once a day. Very nice results.

 

[lxskllr]

Easily defeated by taking elevator up to the 4th floor and then down to the 2nd.

How about increasingly difficult logic problems to get to the desired floor? Elevators could use facial recognition, and every time a person gets in, the correct way to get to the desired floor could be harder to discern. See which is greater, their physical laziness or mental laziness :^D

 

[Fardringle]

Something like this might encourage some people to walk the stairs (and some to ride just for fun):

 

[Exterous]

It's the exact same mentality that has people driving around parking lots trying to find the closest space, instead of just parking the damned car and walking an extra fifty feet.

It did make me think of that. I don't understand that either. Oh look - I took the farther spot and am already in the store while you're still waiting\driving around for that closer spot

 

[s0me0nesmind1]

On a sidenote: What the fuck is up with god damn buildings that have disabled the close door button on the elevator?

When I want to slam the door in someones face that wants to awkwardly run in and be dr. douchebag and hold everyone else up it never works. I seriously think 95% of buildings simply disable the button. Pisses me off more than fat people that don't go up/down while the escalator is running and instead sit still and block others.

 

[Kaido]

It's the exact same mentality that has people driving around parking lots trying to find the closest space, instead of just parking the car and walking an extra fifty feet.

This drives me nuts. My family will drive for 10 minutes to find a "good" parking space, instead of just grabbing one in the back & spending the extra 10 seconds walking across the lot. Efficiency, people! 😀

 

[purbeast0]

It's the exact same mentality that has people driving around parking lots trying to find the closest space, instead of just parking the damned car and walking an extra fifty feet.

Actually no it's not at all.

Taking the elevator is typically faster than walking up stairs (depending how far up you're going) whereas parking and walking the extra 50 feet is going to get you where you are going faster than waiting for a parking spot.

I pretty much always take the stairs down, depending on how many flights, and I typically will take the stairs up if it's 3 or less flights. At my job I typically take the elevator up 4 flights because the stairs are longer and I get in around 6am and am not in the mood to walk up the steps. And half of the days I come to work my legs are sore from deadlifting or squatting, so I'll take the elevator.

 

[JimKiler]

Actually no it's not at all.

Taking the elevator is typically faster than walking up stairs (depending how far up you're going) whereas parking and walking the extra 50 feet is going to get you where you are going faster than waiting for a parking spot.

I pretty much always take the stairs down, depending on how many flights, and I typically will take the stairs up if it's 3 or less flights. At my job I typically take the elevator up 4 flights because the stairs are longer and I get in around 6am and am not in the mood to walk up the steps. And half of the days I come to work my legs are sore from deadlifting or squatting, so I'll take the elevator.

But yet years ago already someone on this forum would not entertain the idea that being fat was related to lifestyle. They only believe it was due to genes. Everyone can get fat except that one girl in Texas: http://abcnews.go.com/Health/Wellness/texas-woman-gain-weight-bullied/story?id=17228529

 

[Mayne]

I live in an apartment with no elevator. :*(

 

[NesuD]

Really depends how my knees are feeling on a given day. Some days stairs are excruciatingly painful to navigate. Other days they are not. I will do the stairs on the low pain days. Call me lazy after you have had a week with my knees.

 

[Carson Dyle]

Actually no it's not at all.

You're wrong.

Taking the elevator is typically faster than walking up stairs (depending how far up you're going) whereas parking and walking the extra 50 feet is going to get you where you are going faster than waiting for a parking spot.

Taking the elevator up/down a single floor is seldom faster when you factor in waiting even a few seconds for it to arrive. Remember that we're talking about taking the elevator to go one floor. There's obviously a point at some number of floors where the time and effort saved makes taking the elevator more efficient.

Exactly the same with parking. You can park a mile mile from your destination and spend 15-20 minutes walking, or you can drive around for a while looking for a closer spot, hoping to spend just a couple of minutes walking. That makes sense.

But when the difference is 10 or 15 seconds of walking, it's the same as a one floor elevator ride.

 

[Carson Dyle]

But yet years ago already someone on this forum would not entertain the idea that being fat was related to lifestyle. They only believe it was due to genes. Everyone can get fat except that one girl in Texas: http://abcnews.go.com/Health/Wellness/texas-woman-gain-weight-bullied/story?id=17228529

Are people really getting fat because they choose to take the elevator one floor, or drive around hoping to avoid a walk across a parking lot? Doubtful. It does reflect their attitude and lifestyle choices, but it's not the reason. Those calories "add up", but they don't add up to much; not enough to account for people being 100 or 150 pounds overweight.

 

[BurnItDwn]

I only go to 2nd floor, I take stairs. I have been on the elevator about 3 or 4 times, but only when going to conference rooms on other floors while walking around with my laptop and a mug of tea or coffee. Hard to do doors with no hands free.

 

[local]

I saw a person fall down about 10 steps and break their leg at work. That went down as an OSHA recordable injury and safety is now discouraging stair use. Joke is on them though as there is no elevator so we may just abandon the second floor entirely.

 

[JulesMaximus]

Really depends how my knees are feeling on a given day. Some days stairs are excruciatingly painful to navigate. Other days they are not. I will do the stairs on the low pain days. Call me lazy after you have had a week with my knees.

Don't you have insurance? Doctors can do amazing things with knee surgery these days.

 

[NesuD]

Don't you have insurance? Doctors can do amazing things with knee surgery these days.

apparently my pain which is Arthritis related is not debilitating enough to warrant knee replacement yet. As I said some days are bad but some aren't. Only a problem on stairs and not always. My point is some of us have a very legitimate need for elevators at times even if it is only 1 floor.

 

[Exterous]

I only go to 2nd floor, I take stairs. I have been on the elevator about 3 or 4 times, but only when going to conference rooms on other floors while walking around with my laptop and a mug of tea or coffee. Hard to do doors with no hands free.

I got a insulated container with a clip loop on the lid. I'll often move around a lot during the day and can just hook a finger in there so I can hold my laptop and coffee\water in the same hand.

 

[Murloc]

I never use elevators. Unless you are using a wheelchair (or, its an actual bone-fide skyscraper and we are talking 30th floor or above) I don't see why you would. More effort than they are worth (not to mention the one where I am now gets stuck rather frequently). Once lived on a 9th floor and never used the thing even then.

Some Swiss study found that those living above the 10th floor in high-rises had measurably better cardio-vascular health than those on lower floors. Though they don't know if that's due to walking up and down stairs or due to being above the pollution ceiling (and I also wonder if it's a selection-effect - those in poor health maybe don't want to live up there?). Though another study found those on higher floors were much less likely to survive if they _did_ have a heart-attack. Due to the delay in paramedics getting to them.

there are middle grounds, like people with weak heart or bad joints, or people not wanting to wet their shirt before getting into an air contioned office if they don't have to.
Also above 4-5 floors the elevator is faster.

 

[clamum]

Only a few people usually use the elevator at work (we work on second floor), and lo and behold, they're obese (though not all of the obeses use the elevator). How dare we get that fat ass some exercise! Fail™

 

[Nashemon]

I worked in a building with six floors where the only stairs in the whole place were marked for emergency use only. You couldn't get onto some floors from the stairs either, because the doors were locked. There were four elevators in the middle of the building and only one of them went to the 1st floor (for handicap accessibility). The escalators had to be used between the 1st and 2nd floor, unless you got lucky going down and the handicapable elevator arrived, then you could coast all the way down to the 1st floor.

 

[pmv]

I know of a high-rise block with a gym in the basement. People take the elevator down, use the stair-machine for a while, then get the elevator back up again!

 

[pmv]

could also be related to socio-economic status. higher up = more expensive which usually = better job, more money, educated, etc.

Yeah, good point. Funny thing is that before the elevator was invented the rich preferred to live on lower floors, and the upper floors were for poorer people. And until recently here (uk) high rises were mostly for the less well-off, but many of the old council (social housing) blocks are now considered fashionable, with a mixture of wealthy hipsters and council tenants, as that brutalist architectural style is loved by some and hated by others. I've seen some really nice high-rise ex-council flats with great views (but I couldn't afford their high maintenance charges and you can't get mortgages because banks aren't yet convinced they won't fall down).

 

[pmv]

I work on the 26th floor. Should I take the steps every time I come and go?

Borderline case! Anything under 10 though I'd ignore the elevator, personally. I give you permission to use your own judgement though.

Do you have a great view? I've envied people who work in such places, but seems like a lot of them in the US don't get the benefit because all you get to see are all the other buildings equally high on the other side of the street.

 

[Herr Kutz]

Happens where I work too, and the elevators there are slowwwwwwww. I always take the stairs, usually two steps at a time and at a fast pace. It's fun.

 

[Darwin333]

Easily defeated by taking elevator up to the 4th floor and then down to the 2nd.

People would sooo do this too...