It sounds worse than chintzy to me. I believe routine inspections of elevators are mandated virtually everywhere. Sounds to me like somebody was making under-the-table payments to somebody in a government position to skip the inspections. Who’d a thunk it, in Chicago of all places?!
I’ll give you a more likely scenario.
A good public servant walks in to the Hancock and tags out the elevator for inspection. Then proceeds to a bar to fill out his inspection report while he has a couple of beers.
He then returns to the Hancock and pulls his tags and tags out another elevator and returns to the bar.
He repeats this routine at the Hancock until he has tagged out all of the elevators in the hotel. He inspects about two elevators a day in this fashion all over Chicago.
I recall that I used to take the elevator at Logan Airport’s international arrivals regularly, once every two weeks. There were two elevators side by side, and both of them had inspection certificates displayed that were about a year out of date. Usually the elevators were not crowded, but one day one was especially packed. I commented, to no one in particular, “Am I the only one who noticed that the inspect certificate is a year out of date?”
Next time I got on, about two weeks later, in place of the inspection certificate was a notification, “For inspection certificate please visit...” and it identified an office. which probably would only respond to official inquiries.
In this case, it’s likely that inspections were pencil whipped or simply ignored entirely.
That is quite a leap you made. You went from a maintenance guy not doing his job to government corruption and possible man slaughter charges with not one scintilla of evidence. Great work.
“Who’d a thunk it, in Chicago of all places?!”
Try operating a small coffee shop in Nueva Yorca. Please leave envelope in the men’s room is SOP....