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July 01, 2003
Elevator Madness Part 2
UNITED STATES (Reuters) - A team of programmers has reprogrammed the in-building elevators, only to have had the original settings returned a day later. Elevator users were both shocked and disappointed all within a 24 hour time period.
On Sunday evening a team of dedicated employees discovered the secret to corporate wide happiness, and began the implementation phase of a project better known as "Useful Elevator." Within hours of occupying the first floor, the team eventually arrived at the ground floor, beginning work towards restoring what could be considered a sane elevator scheduling algorithm. The insurrection lasted only a few minutes once the appropriate control panel was discovered, and went unnoticed by the on duty night security.
The following Monday employees were greeted with an elevator that arrived promptly when pressing a service request button, and heading in the requested direction. Typical water cooler commentary on the elevator service described it as "snappy", "responsive", and "useful for a first time".
Senior Facilities Management released a press statement declaring the recent behavior in elevator service as "unexpected", and "highly unlikely to continue". "Due to the nature of the service we have yet to be able to identify what exactly has failed in the elevator," explain Charles Johnson. "We are afraid that this new behavior might lead elevator riders to believe that an elevator can operate on a per request system, rather than a sweeping global servicing mechanism as has been used in the past. For this reason, we plan to reset the elevator service after the close of business Monday evening in hopes of restoring the previous, well understood, behavior."
Employees arriving to work early Tuesday morning were greeted with the old familiar long wait times. "It was great while it lasted", said James Huberik. "I rode the elevator all day Monday in disbelief that it worked when I needed it!"
Posted by Dan at July 1, 2003 03:27 PM