Okay, now I want you all to vote on the Most Pathetic Facet of this post
That there are actually people as you describe, who never gave one second thinking about time efficiency, and who consequently make people who are under time pressure lose their lives waiting for them.
Like the other day, when there were these two old peeps from the building in PAris, who obviously were helping their son move from the attic room on the 6th floor. We're on the 4th, and the lift only goes to the 5th.
We were in a hurry, because w ehad 1/2 hour to get rid of several cubic meters of waste (old wood, remnants of a cupboard, various reincarnated and then decayed pieces of furniture etc.). We couldn't have started earlier, because you're suppsoed to give to get a date with the city's waste services , and you can start downloading the stuff only one hour before.
So there was that obvious conflict of interests about the lift, and what do they do ? Instead of preparing loads on the 5th floor lobby, and then filling the elevator, and then emptying it on the ground floor, one of them was keeping the elevator blocked on the 5th floor, while the other was bringing down the stuff from the 6th, then they would half-fill the lift, cram themselves in down to the ground floor and one would drag the stuff from the lift to their car, while the other would keep the door open.
Result : half a load on their side per 15 minutes, then we would rush one or two liftfull before they'd manage to highjack it again, and so on. And correlatively, we brought most of the stuff down by foot (and it was quite heavy and plenty of it), while climbing back by foot as well. It was a very hot day and when it was over i kind of fainted in a real unpleasant vagal collapse of sorts.
See, i can be even more pathetic than you.. but WON'T THEY LEARN TO BE FRAGGIN EFFICIENT ONE DAY ???
(sorry for the vent, but all of this to say that i understand all too well that it's hard to stomach this sort of things)
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Date: 2005-06-07 02:20 am (UTC)That there are actually people as you describe, who never gave one second thinking about time efficiency, and who consequently make people who are under time pressure lose their lives waiting for them.
Like the other day, when there were these two old peeps from the building in PAris, who obviously were helping their son move from the attic room on the 6th floor. We're on the 4th, and the lift only goes to the 5th.
We were in a hurry, because w ehad 1/2 hour to get rid of several cubic meters of waste (old wood, remnants of a cupboard, various reincarnated and then decayed pieces of furniture etc.). We couldn't have started earlier, because you're suppsoed to give to get a date with the city's waste services , and you can start downloading the stuff only one hour before.
So there was that obvious conflict of interests about the lift, and what do they do ? Instead of preparing loads on the 5th floor lobby, and then filling the elevator, and then emptying it on the ground floor, one of them was keeping the elevator blocked on the 5th floor, while the other was bringing down the stuff from the 6th, then they would half-fill the lift, cram themselves in down to the ground floor and one would drag the stuff from the lift to their car, while the other would keep the door open.
Result : half a load on their side per 15 minutes, then we would rush one or two liftfull before they'd manage to highjack it again, and so on. And correlatively, we brought most of the stuff down by foot (and it was quite heavy and plenty of it), while climbing back by foot as well. It was a very hot day and when it was over i kind of fainted in a real unpleasant vagal collapse of sorts.
See, i can be even more pathetic than you.. but WON'T THEY LEARN TO BE FRAGGIN EFFICIENT ONE DAY ???
(sorry for the vent, but all of this to say that i understand all too well that it's hard to stomach this sort of things)