I've been in elevator pits. They are not as comfortable or as interesting as you might wish.
But worse, for me at least, was being at the top of the elevator shaft, and yes, on top of the elevator. It wasn't remarkably cleaner.
Found one that someone had been living in.
They were living and sleeping in the overhead of this one building as it had a crawlspace “shelf” off to the one side.
Oh, and the new thread is almost ready.
Cross fingers that it doesn’t get blasted into a million pieces.