What Next? Steps You Have To Walk Up?

A political party regularly books some of our rooms for an evening meeting. Some of them stay until the end, but there’s always some small groups who leave earlier. I’m working the reception desk alone and so, when I go away from the desk to get a coffee, I turn the automatic doors off — they can still be easily opened from the inside.

I come back to the desk with my coffee to find that the foyer lights are off and a small group is gathered at the door panicking about being locked in. They’d tried the light switches to see if they opened the door but none of them had thought of just pushing the doors.