Vent: Leveling switches on every other car but skipping mine

Caught the night crew adjusting door locks on 6 different cabs while leaving mine with a 2 inch misalignment at the 14th floor because they assumed the old shim setup was fine, so can someone explain why taking 10 extra minutes on a known problem car never happens until a passenger gets stuck?

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theasmith16d ago

The 14th floor thing is a bit off since elevators don't usually have numbered floors like that unless it's a specific building, but I get your frustration. Most night crews just follow a checklist and skip the cars that need actual diagnosis because they're timed on how many they hit per shift. That misalignment probably got flagged before and nobody wanted to dig into the old shims without a work order.

kai_park16d ago

You’re giving the night crews way too much credit, @theasmith. Saying they “follow a checklist” is generous when half the time they’re just ticking boxes and moving on, no matter what the car is actually doing. That 14th floor thing is a legit issue if the building uses a custom floor numbering scheme, and a decent mechanic would notice the pattern after the third time the same car levels off wrong on that floor. The real problem isn’t the work order system, it’s that nobody wants to admit the old shims are shot and the misalignment was obvious for months before someone finally wrote it up.