- Elevator operator
An elevator operator (in
British English , usually lift man, lift woman, or lift girl) is a person specifically employed to operate a manually operatedelevator . Besides their training in operation and safety, department stores extended the rôles of operators as combination greeters and tour guides, announcing products, floor-by-floor, and occasional sales.With the advent of user-operated elevators such as those utilizing push buttons to select the desired floor, few elevator operators remain. A few older buildings still maintain working manually operated elevators and thus elevator operators may be employed to run them. The Pioneer Building in downtown
Saint Paul, Minnesota and City Hall inBuffalo, New York are two of the few in the United States to employ elevator operators.In more modern buildings, elevator operators are still occasionally encountered. For example, they are commonly seen in Japanese department stores such as
Sogo andMitsukoshi inJapan andTaiwan , as well as high speed elevators in skyscrapers, as seen inTaipei 101 .
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