I think elevator conversation patterns are interesting. Typically in an office in the US we don’t discuss anything at all on an elevator if the people are all strangers—it can be stone silence for 70 floors. However, if there is anything at all discussed (beyond “four please”) - even something as trivial as the weather or how bad the traffic was getting off the loop—then usually we feel compelled to impart some sort of leave-taking expression when one of the parties leaves the elevator.
I think elevator conversation patterns are interesting. Typically in an office in the US we don’t discuss anything at all on an elevator if the people are all strangers—it can be stone silence for 70 floors. However, if there is anything at all discussed (beyond “four please”) - even something as trivial as the weather or how bad the traffic was getting off the loop—then usually we feel compelled to impart some sort of leave-taking expression when one of the parties leaves the elevator.