Originally Posted by
phol
You can be 99% certain the areas were roped off so they wouldn't have to clean them/service them. Quite typical in Britain.
I've seen my fair share of these types of shenanigans living in Shanghai.
They clean and tidy it up, say the escalator. Then it's "out of service" until their supervisor visits and sees everything is in order, and all of a sudden it's "fixed." I got annoyed at one of these that I sat there filming the entire process of what the staff did; let's just say they didn't do this anymore.