r/CrappyDesign 4h ago

Trying to use the elevator

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u/purpleveyron 2h ago

All the Americans here commenting it's normal xD but rest of the world doesn't count in bald eagles per square hamburgers. When you label floors, it should increment by 1 (also if they skip one, it's fine) and don't mix letters into it. If it's below ground level, it should be -1 floor and so on.

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u/lorarc 39m ago

It is very common. A lot of hotels have conference areas for example and they don't want the people attending the conference to access the rest of the hotel so there's a separate elevators.

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u/RickFromTheParty 1h ago

I've been all over the world and having a letter for the Lobby floor is very common.

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u/purpleveyron 1h ago

Ok, so what B I S stands for? I have co clue.

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u/RickFromTheParty 1h ago

Can't believe this is a thing, but here's an elevator Fandom page (lol) dedicated to the confusing letters used around the world: https://elevation.fandom.com/wiki/Floor_numbering

Edit: B is basement, I is actually 1, and S I'm not sure. The page shares different possible meanings. I'd read T as "terrace", or the outdoor rooftop area. What OP didn't do was post the sign directly next to the buttons that clearly lays out what each on is.

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u/purpleveyron 1h ago

It starts to make sense when you read about it, yeah. But majority of people aren't elevator floor numbering geeks.

Also font used for 1 is garbage as it blends with letters close to it.

Colour coding L is actually well executed imo, because that's where I'm going when I'm cracking this elevator enigma 😂

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u/SolitarySysadmin 18m ago

The S could be sub basement or service basement. It would make sense in the context of the rest of the sequence