Elevator operator
As elevator operator , elevator operator , elevator operator or Elevator Girl refers to a service provider, whose main task is for the guests of large department stores or hotels the elevator to use and to assist them in addition advice. This can include welcoming texts or the announcement of the floor and the product groups in department stores. In addition, they pay attention to compliance with the safety regulations, so that, for example, the permissible maximum weight or the maximum number of people are not exceeded.
history
In most industrialized countries the elevator operators have disappeared after the invention of the button operation, since the elevator passengers could now choose the floor themselves and the car doors were automatically closed or opened. Therefore, elevator operators can only be found in Europe today where monitoring of elevator traffic is necessary for safety reasons, especially in heavily frequented elevators, e.g. B. on well-known landmarks, such as the Eiffel Tower or the Berlin TV tower .
In Japanese department stores ( depāto ), however, the elevator girls ( Japanese エ レ ベ ー タ ー ガ ー ル , erebētā gāru ) can still be found today. Most of them are young women in neat uniforms who do this work as a part-time job ( ア ル バ イ ト , arubaito ). The first elevator girls in Japan - at that time still called shōkōki girl ( 昇降機 ガ ー ル ) - were introduced in Depāto Matsuzaka-ya in 1929 . The Japanese are so used to the elevator girls that in some unmanned elevators there is a sign asking customers to operate the buttons themselves.
If an elevator is part of local public transport , the elevator operator is sometimes also responsible for selling tickets . Examples of this are the Bern Mattelift , the Hammetschwand lift on Lake Lucerne and some public lifts ( Ascensori ) in Genoa , Italy .
Novel and film
The lift boy is a typical figure that is often found in novels and films, for example in
- Liftboy , novel by Hubert Flattinger
- Hotel Savoy , novel by Joseph Roth
- Confessions of the impostor Felix Krull , unfinished novel by Thomas Mann : the main character works temporarily as a lift boy
- The Lost One , a fragment of a novel by Franz Kafka : the protagonist Karl Roßmann works as a lift boy
- Five million are looking for an heir (German comedy film with Heinz Rühmann , 1938)
- The Apartment (1960 film, Shirley MacLaine received an Oscar nomination and multiple awards for her role as Elevator Girl)
- The elevator boy from the palace hotel (film by Pierre Granier-Deferre , 1962)
- Hui Buh - Das Schlossgespenst (German comedy film with a lift boy spirit, 2006)
- Grand Budapest Hotel (tragic comedy told from the perspective of a lift boy, 2014)
See also
In aviation language , liftboy jokingly describes a pilot who drops parachutists at the desired location with his machine .
literature
- Erhard Laasch: House technology. Chapter elevator systems. Vieweg + Teubner Verlag, 1993. pp. 814-838, ISBN 978-3-322-92814-6 , doi: 10.1007 / 978-3-322-92813-9_14
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ 松 坂 屋 「ひ と ・ こ と ・ も の」 語 り 昭和 . Matsuzaka-ya, accessed May 15, 2009 (Japanese).