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My office just sent out a message saying the elevator union workers are going on strike tomorrow and all elevators will be shut down.

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[–] Nogami@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The elevator industry is a huge cartel too. Lots of proprietary components and tools. If you need something rare or old, be prepared to wait 6 months to a year for service.

Damn things should just be standardized by law.

[–] Unforeseen@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sounds just like the McDonald's ice cream machines

[–] Nogami@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Dairy Queen is better.

[–] nik282000@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

All industrial machines are like this now because every manufacture has to build a perfect snowflake. We have some mission critical parts with a 14 month back-order, so one good power flicker or flood and we loose a production line for the next year.

Fuck you Lenze and Siemens. I have seen crowd sourced 3D printers more reliable than the crap you produce.