• seitanic@lemmy.sdf.org
      46·
      1 year ago

      If this is in the US, I feel like it would be a violation of OSHA. Or maybe it’s something so stupid that OSHA never thought to make it a rule.

      • Sadrockman@sh.itjust.works
        16·
        1 year ago

        Oh I’m positive its an OSHA violation,but it got fixed after a while. A stopgap till the right switch/part arrived. In recent times,at least. In the past however,this would stay till safety came through and made them do it right. And this is a billion dollar company too. Blows my mind.

        • Bene7rddso@feddit.de
          4·
          1 year ago

          That switch probably controls a contactor. I din’t think that switch could take all the current for the elevator

          • dgmib@lemmy.world
            2·
            1 year ago

            Or something like it controls the lights in the elevator cab (but not the elevator itself).

      • digger@lemmy.ca
        3·
        1 year ago

        We’ve got an elevator at work that is… less than reliable. To reset the elevator is a giant breaker BUT sometimes it’s not the mechanics in the elevator but the control board. To reset that board is just a GFI. Also the lights in the elevator are a different light switch in the same closet.

        • averagedrunk@lemmy.ml
          9·
          1 year ago

          Absolutely not. I left that job not long after. It officially became someone else’s problem.

          I assume they’re not using it anymore. The company was purchased last year so I have to think that they have problems with other code that makes no sense.

            • averagedrunk@lemmy.ml
              3·
              1 year ago

              Agreed.

              Theoretically they could still be using it, but it’s pretty doubtful. It was just a GUI to run a set of scripts for an old set of programs that should have been retired before XP came out.

              I was at an MSP at the time. One of our customers had stuff that wouldn’t install on anything after Win98, was looking for a bunch of hardware that no longer exists, and all the associated DLLs had to be registered manually. I created it because I was tired of doing it all by hand.

              My assumption would be the guys who were there at the same time as me used it (I know they did actually), but a year after I left the whole bullpen turned over and I doubt they used it after that. They lost a pile of clients. Even if that hadn’t happened, if they’re still supporting 25 year old software with 15 year old scripts run by a 12 year old and poorly hacked together front end by a guy who was definitely not a programmer at the time (and barely is now) then they get whatever they deserve.

  • Empricorn@feddit.nlEnglish
    30·
    1 year ago

    If I saw this, I would have no faith in the elevator and would just hoof it up however many flights. Not fair to the disabled though…

  • TimeSquirrel@kbin.social
    221·
    1 year ago

    Onboard the ISS: “Please do not turn off the coffee maker. It also operates the CO2 scrubbers.”

  • Ghyste@sh.itjust.works
    212·
    1 year ago

    C/funny would be so much more active if this stuff was posted there instead of dumped here as more no-effort crap.

    Quit with the shitty non-meme posts.

  • burntbutterbiscuits@sh.itjust.works
    51·
    1 year ago

    This doesn’t seem like a good solution to me. Like, even just superglueing the switch on and then covering it with duct tape would seem safer to me.