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Re the stupid "guidelines" for the 3rd and 5th floors at Lionsgate, my former company whose office building was within the confines of the City of Boston, complied with such directives from the City. For example, walking only counterclockwise on each floor; no mask at your desk, but masks while away; two people at a time in the elevators each with their backs to each other facing the opposing corner with their feet on painted-on white shoes; standing outside in line waiting to be called into the lobby to swipe IDs and then wait in between stanchions in the elevator lobby to be directed two at a time into one of the three elevators.

Can you imagine? Grown, "sophisticated" adults allowed themselves these deep indignities and humiliations? Because? Respiratory infection. Because? Somebody told them to.

I? #NeverHaveNeverWill.

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Wow the elevator rules.......really saving a lot of grandmas with that one.

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Truly, SM. Just so many grandmas -- and grandpas -- saved with that one.

Another fave of mine -- which I didn't get to experience firsthand because I decided to leave -- was the prohibition on the internal stairs. Now instead of being able to walk up or down one of the two sets, one could only go up or down on them. So, if you found yourself near a stairway (now only a one-way staircase) and you needed to go the other way -- the rules said you had to walk -- counterclockwise -- to the other side of the building to use the staircase designated for the direction you needed to go in.

Because? Respiratory infection.

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Some viruses can only go up, some can only go down!

SCIENCE!!!

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Absurd and humiliating -- all of it -- but it was the elevator garbage that told me my days were numbered -- and they were. After more than ten years.

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That was the point -- the ability to set stupid rules and make everybody follow them all the time, thus ensuring the virus was always at the forefront of everybody's mind.

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