Escalator what?!!!

It's not a wise thing to let me take a dump in the toilet without any reading material because my mind would wander off and start thinking of stupid things. Since I work in Intel, I realized they use the word "escalate" a lot - escalate to this, this issue needs an escalation, yada yada, bla bla bla. Anyway, while I was doing my business in the beautiful and clean toilet of PG5.2, i had an inkling. If escalate means to bring some issue and whatnot up, and an escalator is a power driven set of stairs that carries people up or down, then can we call a person who often escalates an issue an escalator? Hmmm.. that's a thought ain't it.. or perhaps my vocabulary is not that good. Someone care to explain?