Hi everyone -- I am having a nice little pity party as tonight when I come home a little boy was running for the elevator, so I shot my arm out to grab the door...and my phone flew out of my arms and dropped...right down the elevator shaft. I could not believe it. Not only is it my phone, but it is in a case with my ID, debit cards, etc. Ugh. Tomorrow I have to go to the office and beg for someone to come asap.
Oh man!!!! Were you on the lowest level when it happened? Elevator pits are about 4' deep so if you were on the lowest level and the phone had a case it probably survived. It's not a big deal to retrieve it, the elevator has to be parked up a floor and there's a pit access ladder to go down. If the building has on-staff maintenance then they probably won't have to call the elevator maintenance company for it and can have their own person do it. Good luck!
As a side note, I'm an architect and on one of my projects the general contractor was drilling a shaft for a hydraulic elevator. The elevator was 4 stops so the shaft was about 60' deep and maybe 18" in diameter. One of the contractors was looking in it and his phone slipped out of his shirt pocket and went right in. There was no getting that one back!
