On 26/08/2013 23:43, wrote:


It must be nice to have your own station.


Roman Bridge?

http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wa...-wales-3166366

Charlie

Was it Pruitt-Igoe?

In message , at 09:45:03 on
Tue, 27 Aug 2013, Basil Jet remarked:
Lots of CEOs have private lifts from their underground car parks so they
can avoid meeting not just the public, but even their own minions on the
way up to the executive suite.

Really? That seems rather expensive, compared to just programming the
lifts to stop nowhere else when going to or from the top floor, and
possibly having a back door that is only used in the basement.

There's also the time element. How long would the CEO have to wait on
the top floor for a lift to arrive? And how could you ensure it was empty.

These can be achieved by having a separate lift above the main one in
the same shaft, and having a few steps up to the directors entrance in
the basement, and having a car sensor in the directors parking spot.
Still waaaaaay cheaper than the director having his own lift shaft
sitting empty all day through the entire building.

That doesn't solve how long you have to wait for the lift-combo to get
to the top floor, nor how long it takes to get down to the basement
while the lower lift stops at every floor.

Actually, it'd be just as bad in the opposite direction too.
--
Roland Perry

In article , (Roland Perry)
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In message , at 00:58:16 on
Tue, 27 Aug 2013, Basil Jet remarked:
Lots of CEOs have private lifts from their underground car parks so
they can avoid meeting not just the public, but even their own minions
on the way up to the executive suite.

Really? That seems rather expensive, compared to just programming the
lifts to stop nowhere else when going to or from the top floor, and
possibly having a back door that is only used in the basement.

There's also the time element. How long would the CEO have to wait on
the top floor for a lift to arrive? And how could you ensure it was empty.

There are CEOs who are happy to mix with their staff.

--
Colin Rosenstiel

On Tue, 27 Aug 2013 07:29:10 -0500,
wrote:

In article , (Roland Perry)
wrote:

In message , at 00:58:16 on
Tue, 27 Aug 2013, Basil Jet remarked:
Lots of CEOs have private lifts from their underground car parks so
they can avoid meeting not just the public, but even their own minions
on the way up to the executive suite.

Really? That seems rather expensive, compared to just programming the
lifts to stop nowhere else when going to or from the top floor, and
possibly having a back door that is only used in the basement.

There's also the time element. How long would the CEO have to wait on
the top floor for a lift to arrive? And how could you ensure it was empty.

There are CEOs who are happy to mix with their staff.

Obviously there are many; I was pointing out the example of the
fortunately less common ones who aren't.

Is one end of the platform ten inches wide, like at the original Shepherds Bush Market. LOROL!

Roland Perry wrote:

There's also the time element. How long would the CEO have to wait on the
top floor for a lift to arrive? And how could you ensure it was empty.

Our CEO (medium sized IT company) sits in the same open plan office we all
do, and good on him for it.

Neil
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Neil Williams in Milton Keynes, UK. Put first name before the at to reply.

Neil Williams wrote:
Roland Perry wrote:

There's also the time element. How long would the CEO have to wait on the
top floor for a lift to arrive? And how could you ensure it was empty.

Our CEO (medium sized IT company) sits in the same open plan office we all
do, and good on him for it.

Hopefully, that's typical these days, particularly in smaller, private
companies. With large public corporations, where CEOs are possibly under
threat from kidnappers, terrorists or the paparazzi, they probably do have
to remain a little more aloof.

For a really hideous example at the toxic end of the spectrum, consider
Jimmy Cayne of Bear Stearns:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/charle...b_1532520.html

On 2013-08-27 11:21:00 +0000, Offramp said:

Was it Pruitt-Igoe?

Yes - in research I'm doing I came across a paper that shifts the blame
somewhat from the designers/architects, who usually get the most blame,
to the underlying poverty factors.

There's an article here and link to the paper.

http://www.economist.com/blogs/prosp...housing?page=1

E.

On 2013-08-27 12:42:16 +0000, Recliner said:

There are CEOs who are happy to mix with their staff.

Obviously there are many; I was pointing out the example of the
fortunately less common ones who aren't.

In the 1980s I joined a media company. I'd been there a month or so,
and one day I went to the gents and the CEO was in there. He turned to
me and said, 'Who the f**k are you?'

E.