Imagine working in the construction industry, and you’re working inside a really rich woman’s home. If she told you to use the elevator instead of the stairs, would you do it even if the elevator was really slow, or would you insist on using the stairs since it would be faster that way?

In this story, some electricians were in this situation, and they decided to do exactly what the client wanted.

Keep reading to see how the contractor reacted when he went to check on their progress.

Some MC from the electricians

I work as a contractor and do mainly work in high end homes.

We were doing work on these peoples basement and the lady was very uptight about people using her stairs to bring materials because it may scratch the walls. Nothing had happened before but she kept saying “you’re gonna scratch my walls” and she had an elevator to carry materials down.

I obliged for bigger stuff and then anything small I would take down the stairs.

It’s not like it was a narrow staircase.

Only problem was the elevator was extremely slow, about 30 seconds to go up one story.

Her stairs were about 6 feet wide and were open to above so no real chance of scratching anything and me and all my guys are very careful in these houses.

Anyways cue the MC.

The electricians knew exactly what to do!

I met my electricians there in the morning to walk them through what they had to do for the day, and then left to check out some other jobs. They were only supposed to pull some wires and put in some plugs, very simple stuff and should have only taken them an hour to do.

I circled back about 4 hours later to make sure everything was done and when I got there they were still working.

I asked the head electrician why it was taking so long and apparently the lady freaked out when they brought their bags downstairs (still didn’t hit any walls) so they all proceeded to take the elevator anytime they had to get something from the truck, anytime they went to the washroom or anytime they had to make a call (no service in basement).

I got a good laugh and told him to cut it out and was finished in about 10 minutes after that. Ended up costing the lady 4x the amount of time but her walls were perfectly intact.

All they did was comply with her request to take the elevator. She may not have even minded that it took so much longer if she’s that rich and that uptight about her stairs.

Let’s see how Reddit responded to this story.

Here’s how it works in Japan…

There were other options.

Here’s another workaround.

It must be an electrician thing.

She probably doesn’t even know she overpaid.

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