Heard a building manager in Chicago say they 'just hit the reset button' for every fault

I was picking up parts at a supply house last week and overheard a guy from a big property group bragging about how his team saves time. He said they treat every elevator fault, from a door lock to a governor issue, with a simple reset to get it running. That's a scary way to cut corners. It ignores the actual problem and just pushes the real repair down the road. Has anyone else run into buildings where this seems to be the standard fix?

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riverp373mo agoMost Upvoted

Honestly that reset button is there for a reason though. A lot of faults are just random sensor trips or a door getting bumped. Tbh if you called a tech for every single beep, nothing would ever run and the bills would be crazy. Sometimes a reset is just clearing a glitch, not ignoring a real broken part.

hugo503mo ago

Wasn't there a news story a while back about an elevator that kept getting reset until a cable snapped? That's what this makes me think of. It's not just lazy, it's asking for a major failure when a simple sensor or lock could have been fixed for good.

quinn_nguyen2mo ago

Ugh that's terrifying. My old apartment elevator would get reset constantly until it finally dropped a floor between levels. It's pure laziness.