4.14.2008

te imaginas?!


Este senor estuvo atrapado en el elevador por 41 horas! Escribieron un articulo en The New Yorker acerca de os elevadores de NY. Aqui abajo hay un chin del articulo.


"White never went back to work at the magazine. Caught up in media attention (which he shunned but thrilled to), prodded by friends, and perhaps provoked by overly solicitous overtures from McGraw-Hill, White fell under the sway of renown and grievance, and then that of the legal establishment. He got a lawyer, and came to believe that returning to work might signal a degree of mental fitness detrimental to litigation. Instead, he spent eight weeks in Anguilla. Eventually, Business Week had to let him go. The lawsuit he filed, for twenty-five million dollars, against the building's management and the elevator-maintenance company, took four years. They settled for an amount that White is not allowed to disclose, but he will not contest that it was a low number, hardly six figures. He never learned why the elevator stopped; there was talk of a power dip, but nothing definite. Meanwhile, White no longer had his job, which he'd held for fifteen years, and lost all contact with his former colleagues. He lost his apartment, spent all his money, and searched, mostly in vain, for paying work. He is currently unemployed."

2 comments:

pvilas said...

pobre tipo... eso debe ser desesperante... y lo que le sucedió después, frustrante...

gracias a Dios a mi me ha tocado solo por 10 ó 15 minutos, pero no se si por desgracia ha sido con más gente. A veces las personas pueden ser más desesperantes que la misma situación...

J said...

ugh nunca me he quedado trancada en un elevador. Dios quiera y nunca me toque, pero creo que si me toca quisiera quedarme sola y no con gente.