BOFH: Little ups and downs

"I... uh..." the Boss says, wandering into Mission Control aimlessly, searching for the right words to bring up whatever's on his mind. "Yes?" I ask, letting him off the hook. "The lifts" he says cryptically.. "The lifts?" I repeat.. "The buttons on the lifts" he says. "They have buttons - yes - well spotted," I say. " …

[Llewsion]

Aahh

Aaahh what a great lift idea, why didnt i think of that??

now has anyone seen my tool kit?

Paris - because she likes riding up and down for and hour and 15 minutes too

[TheBully]

Genius :)

Great to see the BOFH back on form again :)

[sazoo]

a title

Oh I do like this idea...:-) now if only our 3 story ancient building had lifts...:-(

[Rosuav]

Where's the entirely false 8th floor?

... with the fake room 822, false maid, and false foreign minister? Missed the Get Smart reference by that much!

Good fun. As everyone knows, if you install the hardware, you can always add the software later!

[David McMahon]

Like

a Chinook?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_Chinook_%28UK_variants%29

[Anonymous Coward]

Excellent

this episode has more up and downs than the oldest profession in the world :)

I approve wholeheartedly of impromptu lift maintenance with added functionality!

[amanfromMars 1]

Take the Green Pill .... IT solves Everything Perfectly.

Errr .... how do you think the meds are working, Simon? A little too much ... or a little too little?

[Steve X]

new(floor)

I like the idea of new(floor), especially if it could initialize floor.stationery_cupboard = &pub

Would need better garbage collection that most JVMs, though, or the whole place would soon be cluttered up with dangling unreferenced managers.

[Justin 11]

There are some who only need down... ALL the way.

(Sigh!) If only there were a way to install a "go straight to hell and suffer for all eternity" button, I could think of one purchaser I'd persuade to press it. "Press doors-open AND doors-close AND 6 three times and it'll take you to a place where they think it really *is* a good idea to modify an expert sysadmin's order to your criteria".

Sorry, but I feel better now.

[Duncan Robertson 1]

Brilliant!

Friday has been brightened again!

[George Nacht]

As a long time employee

of an elevator making company, I must regretfully say: Apage, Satanas!

Must resist temptation....Must resist temptation....

[Fluffykins]

@Justin 11

Lie down.......................deep breaths........................steady....steady.

In.................and out.

There. Feel better?

[Anonymous Coward]

SIGSEG

Surely this reality implodes once you go beyond the available floors of the hardware.

[A K Stiles]

Index beyond array boundary

Wouldn't that cause a memory leak, or perhaps that would be caused by the falling ceiling tile?

[T-Unit]

A typo?

I hate to be a pedant* but:

"11?

The same as 9, but for 30 minutes."

9 was the one that takes you to the floor with the hottest woman. 10 was the one that goes up and down randomly for 15 minutes.

* This is the opposite of the truth

[Clinton]

u-huh

I was thinking the same thing.

[Lionel Baden]

yup

ditto

[Yeik]

Agreed

I read over that two or three times to make sure it wasn't me reading it wrong. But why wouldn't you want to see the hot woman for 30 minutes instead of just stopping at her floor, maybe she would come over because the elevator got stuck on the floor and she might need to use it, then you get to say, I think its broken, lets take the stairs.

[theSensibleGeek]

Are you crazy?

When the hot chick comes over to the elevator, you invite her in and press 11 several times. Good times! Of course, she may just not be into you, in which case, put on your gas mask and press 12!

[Steven Knox]

I thought the same thing...

but apparently my comment on it offended someone...

[Mark York 3]

The Bastard is back

But I'm thinking he is mellowing a bit (but still keeping PFY on his leash), while the PFY is getting nastier (must be all that shock therapy that Simon arranged).

[Trygve Henriksen]

Better than what I ever considered...

All I've ever wanted to do with he lifts at the office is to go to the basement and fiddle with the 'up' button, turning it upside down, and adding some red lights in the shaft(possibly together with a smoke machine) which is to activate as the elevator arrives...

[Craig Vaughton]

Prototype

Fantastic!

I'm slightly worried though that the PFY may have infiltrated the crew that "renovated" the lifts in the building I work in and used the 4 we have as a test bed. The logic sounds similar.

[Duke of URL]

mildly amusing

This was mildly amusing until the very last. WTF is a "quick ruby"? His favorite bartender is a 20-minute prostitute?

[Anonymous Coward]

What's a ruby?

Bloody hell, you haven't worked in London, have you?

http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/Curry

[Duke of URL]

wikicurry

Work in London? Not just no, but HELL NO. Closest I ever came to Sludge City was a couple of hundred miles, and that was bad enough. Looked at your link - couldn't spot any reference to rubies, but am taking it for granted that it's one of those food-like substances you eat there.

[BossHog]

Careful, son.

You're not making any friends in the East End, mate!

[rototype]

Ahahaha AAAAHHHAHHAHHAHHAHHHAAA

nuff sed.

[Chris Curtis]

@justin11

You could make a "straight to hell" button. Unfortunately it would break the next time the lift brakes are serviced.

[skeptical i]

No 13th floor?

It could randomly replicate the function of any of the other floor buttons.

"You've got to ask yourself one question: 'Do I feel lucky?' Well, do ya', punk?"

[MartinBZM]

Burn Baby, BURN!

In the elevator where the ground level isn't level with the "ground".

MWuhahahahahahahaha

[Anonymous Coward]

Not useful in my building...

Only has two floors... and the only elevator I've seen that's actually slower when descending than rising. Somehow the fire key operation for an elevator that only goes to two floors amuses me though...

[Herby]

Elevators ARE fun!

Couple of things:

1) In a galaxy far far away, a long time ago (over 40 years), while I was in the 3rd form, the elevators in the school house were reserved for "non students" (how cruel!). They were a bit more primitive than today in that they had swing doors. Said doors had contacts that confirmed that they were closed (how safe). I found it "compensating" to apply a piece of scotch tape over said contacts after moving the elevator car to the highest floor. Got my BOFH training early in life (over 40 years ago!). It was mentioned in "morning reports" the second time I did it. It seems that they didn't like calling the elevator repair service out for a $$$$ bill.

2) A few years later we equipped the elevator in the building I worked in with a complete remote control (sadly before microprocessors were common). It was a wonderful wired umbilical we put on the top of the car. We included a com line for the "emergency telephone", and an override for the "emergency stop" button.

What FUN!!

[Graham Lee]

Nearby lifts

I've worked in a couple of multi-story buildings around Oxford, UK, and been in many others. Many of the elevators are made by a company called....Schindler's Lifts. No joke.

[DaveLeeTravis]

Schindlers Lifts

Haha. Our lifts are made by these guys. There's nothing like a bit of inappropriate laughter about the holocaust to brighten one's morning.

[Scu]

The 13th floor

I haven't found a building in the US that actually has a floor labeled "13"- they all skip it, deemed unlucky.

For some reason I really enjoy asking someone to "hit 13 for me" in one of these elevators, usually in a hotel or something where someone isn't familiar with the place.

It's starting to irk my wife a bit though.

[Anonymous Coward]

finally....

we have the old BOFH and PFY back, the previous episodes sounded more like to to pub lashups, this one is the essence of the BOFH