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Re: What do you do for a living?
« Reply #210 on: March 27, 2011, 10:27:50 pm »
Booooo!  :P I work for Kone haha  :happy2:

Booooooooo!  :signLOL:



Hahaha, how do you find OTIS to work for?

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Re: What do you do for a living?
« Reply #211 on: March 27, 2011, 10:33:07 pm »
Booooo!  :P I work for Kone haha  :happy2:

Booooooooo!  :signLOL:



Hahaha, how do you find OTIS to work for?

Taz it's ups and downs.  :evilgrin:  I know I will grab my coat on the way out.  :star:

Haha if I had a fifer for every time I heard that!  :P

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Re: What do you do for a living?
« Reply #212 on: March 27, 2011, 10:48:41 pm »

Hahaha, how do you find OTIS to work for?

It pays the bills i suppose...   :signLOL:

Seriously though i cant complain, always done very well out of them although the OTT safety policy gets a little frustrating at times! For the most part i've always thought that working for any reasonably large lift company is the same as the next albeit with a different van and t-shirt  :grin:

Got friends that work for Kone, Schindler, Pickerings, Rubax, Thyssen etc and my uncle works for Stannah and they all have the same moans and gripes lol


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Re: What do you do for a living?
« Reply #213 on: March 27, 2011, 10:51:17 pm »
Booooo!  :P I work for Kone haha  :happy2:

Booooooooo!  :signLOL:



Hahaha, how do you find OTIS to work for?

Taz it's ups and downs.  :evilgrin:  I know I will grab my coat on the way out.  :star:

Haha if I had a fifer for every time I heard that!  :P

^^ If only!  :signLOL:

And of course there is the other lift engineers fave... "oooh we've got the right man in with us if we get stuck".... er no you haven't actually as i'll be stuck with you  :grin:


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Re: What do you do for a living?
« Reply #214 on: March 27, 2011, 10:53:36 pm »
Is it true that you can force a lift to go straight to a specific floor with a "magic button pressing sequence"?  :signLOL:

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Re: What do you do for a living?
« Reply #215 on: March 27, 2011, 11:01:19 pm »

Hahaha, how do you find OTIS to work for?

It pays the bills i suppose...   :signLOL:

Seriously though i cant complain, always done very well out of them although the OTT safety policy gets a little frustrating at times! For the most part i've always thought that working for any reasonably large lift company is the same as the next albeit with a different van and t-shirt  :grin:

Got friends that work for Kone, Schindler, Pickerings, Rubax, Thyssen etc and my uncle works for Stannah and they all have the same moans and gripes lol

Yeah Kone have a ridiculous amounts of health and safety policies as well.
Booooo!  :P I work for Kone haha  :happy2:

Booooooooo!  :signLOL:



Hahaha, how do you find OTIS to work for?

Taz it's ups and downs.  :evilgrin:  I know I will grab my coat on the way out.  :star:

Haha if I had a fifer for every time I heard that!  :P

^^ If only!  :signLOL:

And of course there is the other lift engineers fave... "oooh we've got the right man in with us if we get stuck".... er no you haven't actually as i'll be stuck with you  :grin:

that is also a classic haha

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Re: What do you do for a living?
« Reply #216 on: March 27, 2011, 11:02:26 pm »
Is it true that you can force a lift to go straight to a specific floor with a "magic button pressing sequence"?  :signLOL:

Not on Kone lifts but on some elevators there is supposed to be a magic sequence  :signLOL:

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Re: What do you do for a living?
« Reply #217 on: March 27, 2011, 11:04:57 pm »
Is it true that you can force a lift to go straight to a specific floor with a "magic button pressing sequence"?  :signLOL:

Kind of but not in the same way as the t'internet would have you believe  :wink:

Some lifts will be programmed not to travel to a restricted floor or a stockroom etc by a single press of the relevant car push but may need another button pressing before or after or even during pressing the restricted floor push, its usually the door close button if you fancy some unauthorised urban exploration haha!

The above method is rarely used now though as modern stuff will just have a card reader or pin keypad fitted, i however can play god from upstairs with my service tool and send you wherever i fancy and keep the doors shut....  :grin:


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Re: What do you do for a living?
« Reply #218 on: March 27, 2011, 11:08:43 pm »
Is it true that you can force a lift to go straight to a specific floor with a "magic button pressing sequence"?  :signLOL:

Kind of but not in the same way as the t'internet would have you believe  :wink:

Some lifts will be programmed not to travel to a restricted floor or a stockroom etc by a single press of the relevant car push but may need another button pressing before or after or even during pressing the restricted floor push, its usually the door close button if you fancy some unauthorised urban exploration haha!

The above method is rarely used now though as modern stuff will just have a card reader or pin keypad fitted, i however can play god from upstairs with my service tool and send you wherever i fancy and keep the doors shut....  :grin:

Which is ever so fun when a painter and decorator decides he wants to ride in the lift when you are testing it. That and crash stoping the lift, they don't tend to get in it again  :evilgrin:

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Re: What do you do for a living?
« Reply #219 on: March 27, 2011, 11:09:36 pm »
Cracking thread guys..  :congrats: Shame on me for having not read it yet..  :ashamed:

Well when i'm not flying up the 1/4 mile strip or appearing in the tabloids  :ashamed:, I'm normally travelling the country as a sales manager for a company that supply engineering equipement and signage to the rail industry..  :happy2:


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Re: What do you do for a living?
« Reply #220 on: March 29, 2011, 02:30:22 pm »

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Re: What do you do for a living?
« Reply #221 on: March 29, 2011, 03:03:14 pm »
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Re: What do you do for a living?
« Reply #222 on: March 29, 2011, 05:37:38 pm »
Armed Forces here :)

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Now that sounds like a top job!

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Re: What do you do for a living?
« Reply #223 on: March 29, 2011, 08:52:15 pm »
I clean roads cones for a living usually on the M6.  :happy2:















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And a bit of this, Balfours version though, with different stickers.  :happy2:  





So top cat your in the rail industry aswell then! what area do you cover for balfour beaty? i work for Readypower if you have heard of them?! supply road railers, digging bugs ect!

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Re: What do you do for a living?
« Reply #224 on: March 29, 2011, 09:02:49 pm »
Sadly for me i work all over the UK mainland.  :sad1:  Our office is based at Nottingham, i live in the Northwest, but could work anywhere from Aberdeen to Estleigh. I used to enjoy all the hotels and night life working away, but much prefer all my home comforts nowadays.  :happy2: