Here�s one with a better ending.
While was working in Seattle this story started circulating the grapevine and turned out to be true.
Otis construction was slowing down so the Construction Superintendent talked the Service Repair Superintendant into taking on his son until construction picked up again.
The first job the kid was sent out on was for the removal a large generator armature. Come on guys we�ve all been there, they only come out one way. The Repair Super decided to visit the job after approving numerous requests for larger and even larger bearing pullers that came across his desk. Too late the armature was history. Well it�s OK were all family here at the Big �O�
His next job was some code work or something like that in one their anchor jobs in Downtown Seattle.
After the Kids arrival a strange thing occurred. Two guys had missed their floor and were riding the car to the top landing so they could get another crack at their destination in the down direction. The doors opened at the top landing with when a passenger attempted to enter the car. Due to the fact there already two guys on the car there was a minute of confusion, like after you, or you go ahead. Well anyway the door started to close and the guy in the hall reached into the entrance and grabbed the hall door. The car continued at high speed in the down direction. The guy in the hall wasn�t giving up his ride on this day. He had his head far enough into the opening that part of the operator glazed him on the head and he stagering around in the elevator lobby in circles. By this time the elevator was almost long gone. By now the guys in car had figured out something was wrong and hit the stop switch. The car stopped about 8 to 10 feet below the floor and the hoistway doors were just starting to close when the poor chump up on the landing staggered right into the open hoistway. �This guy landed on his feet, not a mark on him and after the fire department got him off the car top with a ladder headed for the stairs and was never heard of or seen again.
When all the Otis suites arrived and asked the young mechanic just what he had done, they fired him on the spot. He had jumped out both the locks and the gate switch. He got his elevators mixed up.
PS: He did get his job back and is probably retired by now.
