Elevator Operator

She comes in before dwn, wearing casual clothes, to help fit in several grown men in a two-meter square room, moving up and down. While her job description may sound only too familiar, she's actually not sweating it as much as you think. In fact, she may even be having more quirks to her job, more unpredictably with each hour she spends working in her small square room.

When we forst met Alice, she was pessing the elevator dial like aboy. her face open with flashlight precision, quietly greeting us as we enter and prop ourselves beside her. like the four designated elevator operators for the day shift, shw werscasual clothing, lookign quiet and rurally obscure against the modern overpass square.

She tells us her situation:operators like her were "discovered" while working in the municipality of Dasmarias. they earn about P200 per day, which is little below the minimum wage, and the shift is meager 6:30 am to 2:30 pm, but she enjoys working in this solitary calm. Her conduct reminds us of those  ferrymen or clockwoiirks guys says that say " yes, sir" All the time, but their undeniably pinoy working class possess gives it an unpreedictable twist. It;s that synergy between the beauty of modernity and the al Filipino ironies that elevator operators here embody to a comical full.