Conversations in an elevator

Roar · Aug 25, 2014

I dont know if my experience is gonna help you. I had those awkward breathing / gigling experiences in office elivators. There would be one guy and after I enter some how at each level only guys get added up. So I made up my mind that I will enter lift if its empty or a girl in it....so the next day, its is stuck in my mind and I wait for the lift, the door opens and there is a guy... out of frustation/ anxiety, i say " oh well then, I take stairs"... that was embarassing to both of us...

people0skills · Aug 25, 2014

awkward breathing / gigling experiences in office elevators... yuck...are they sniffer dogs or pigs??

I wish my office was within 5 floors. it is located on a 2-digit floor, unfortunately. suggestions by the other members seem to be working.. fake app call, or thanqued, or hand flicking.... I only wish I do not hear "welcomed" after I say thanqued.. lol.. we can easily predict those ill mannered bastards.

btw, I have encountered these gentlemen, who when in the elevator, do make way or ask which floor would I want to go (they were actually closer to the lift buttons that I was).. though I would say, a man taking the lead(ahem, ahem) in an elevator is just 2% of the times.

Roar · Aug 25, 2014

people0skills said: ↑

awkward breathing / gigling experiences in office elevators... yuck...are they sniffer dogs or pigs??

I wish my office was within 5 floors. it is located on a 2-digit floor, unfortunately. suggestions by the other members seem to be working.. fake app call, or thanqued, or hand flicking.... I only wish I do not hear "welcomed" after I say thanqued.. lol.. we can easily predict those ill mannered bastards.

btw, I have encountered these gentlemen, who when in the elevator, do make way or ask which floor would I want to go (they were actually closer to the lift buttons that I was).. though I would say, a man taking the lead(ahem, ahem) in an elevator is just 2% of the times.
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well this was looong time ago...now in a better place....yes, the suggestoions here would work completely. Well, my office is not that high now and people are matured, me too not in 20's anymore, and respect each other...so its decent..

Umanga · May 2, 2017

people0skills said: ↑

Most of the times, not many conversations happen in an elevator. Sounds just right and I like it that way too. Sometimes there can be unexpected things that can happen and my experiences in the office premises is more than conventional.

There is this unknown colleague(I call him colleague, coz he wears the same tag that I wear and unknown coz he is a stranger to me... I never met him or seem him before), who once spoke to me very abruptly in an elevator. You must be from so and so consultants...(we were deployed in some other company premises). I said no. He went on to extend the topic and tried asking everything which embarrassed me very much. One of which was, "I always see you going alone". God knows on what part of the Earth he had seen and I am least bothered about it. I just came off from that fellow and since then observing that he is observing me a lot. Stares at me, from the corner of his eyes, gawd knows what.. again, he is a middle aged man, married with kids. Again, I know, such things should be avoided and I deeply regret that I am not a 'attitude-showing' woman. How do I handle such pests?

And the other worse thing I get to hear is, when I am asking to excuse myself to come out of the lift, there is some stranger saying aloud "excused" AND with a sarcastic tone. What a jerk. Okay, I can definitely make out what is sarcasm and what is a pleasant reply. Not that it bothers me but I am eager to know what are your baddy baddy experiences in an elevator? OR for that matter parking slots, canteen,..all inside office premises. I have explicitly written this point because, I have most of the times seen people pleasantly replying, 'oh.. sure' or 'okay' or they just make way.
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Haha! Your posts are hilarious . I can't tell you how much they make me smile with recognition. I go through these same experiences every day. People like us are not cut out for India.

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