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There are buildings where the doorman sits behind a desk. Perhaps it varies by city.

And a lot of places, like hotels, they handle things such as luggage... definitely not just standing there all day just for a door, that's ridiculous.

> they handle things such as luggage

I thought bellhops do that, that's not just a "doorman"

Indeed. Turns out the doorman is doing a number of additional tasks, not just opening the door, and thus cannot be identically replaced with an automatic door opener. And here we are, right back at the start of the conversation.

I'm talking about people whose job is literally to stand there and greet people and open doors. In some places if they're provided a chair or stool to rest on it's considered less "posh" like wtf

You're confusing the word "doorman" to include other random unrelated jobs, like expecting the postman to also deliver your milk and then complaining that email doesn't solve that problem.

(I guess if you ordered milk online, he could, but that's not the meaning regular people assume when saying "postman")

> You're confusing the word "doorman" to include other random unrelated job

No. Coporate fired a bunch and now doorman is doing their work, too.

You’re thinking of a job that never existed. No one was only ever hired to open doors. Doormen have always had secondary duties that myself and others have explained.

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