Some lift has longer waiting period on their door’s motion sensor before it closes. If nobody presses the close button, basically everybody in the lift are wasting their precious time, staring at each other awkwardly, smelling each other’s fart, putting more strain on your neck as you only look down the floor or up the ceiling and ended up being slapped and accused for sexual harassment for staring, fainted due to overdose on inhaling methane with hydrogen and ammonia, and neck pain that is more severe than formula one drivers sustained in a high speed corner at Istanbul Park circuit at turn 8 for more than 5g.

It is very frustrated when this is happening. Why can’t just the person closest to the button press the close button and rather to wait?

Through my observation, people that don’t like to press the button are usually higher position personnel in an office building. They think they are the boss, yes they might be, pressing the lift button for others is like a low class job for them, and so they just ignore it.

Another type of people that will rather wait for the lift door close automatically is elderly people. For them, what is the point for rushing? A few seconds don’t make a difference.

My humble suggestion and opinion, the person that come in last should always have the courtesy to press the close button. If the operational panel is unreachable, the person that stands next to the panel should have the courtesy to press the button.

If you think you are so high class and will not press the button for others, please don’t stand next to the operation buttons. Best yet, build your own building with private lift, have an operator operate the buttons for you. Or just stop taking the same lift with some low class people like me that probably will downgrade your image and put you into tabloid headlines by just standing next to you.

In our highly competitive business world, everything is about efficiency and accuracy. Try asking someone to surf the net with 14.4kbps while we can get a fast broadband connection. Try asking Usain Bolt to run slower than 10 seconds in 100 meters, of course he can because he can run a world record of 9.58 in 100 meters. But if you are as fat and only exercise your index fingers for mouse clicking and typing (yes I type with index fingers only) as me, and want to run a competitive time for 100 meters in less than 10 seconds, hell no!

Just do me, maybe not for me, but at least for yourself a favour whenever you are in this situation, get in the lift last, have the courtesy to press the close button. Or if you are standing closest to the operation panel, press the close button for others immediately after the last person got onboard.

Educate others. Thank you.