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So we just moved building at work, 100m away from our old on.
On day 1 in new office, the car park was just 'occupied' randomly by our staff, as we used it in the old one.
Turns out that each bit of carpark is allocated to the other companies in the building. One company has a female director who stood at the window and watched everyone - then [s]worked herself up for an hour [/s]came and had a [s]strop[/s] word with the facilities manager, then lovely, full A4, colour notes on headed notepaper, messages on every ones windows in the car park. This she did twice, as it rained on the first lot. 😆
Day 2, today, started with notes on the bushes in the car park and seriously stroppy emails being forwarded by the facilities manager to everyone from her, warning of consequences.
We even have four disabled spots - two of which are now marked with their companies logo, and verboten for disabled guests visiting our office.
And then I have just been given a text heads up for tomorrow - I dropped a couple of colleagues back at the office this afternoon at 5:15 - and did a three point turn to immediately leave, using a spare parking bay to do this. Another complaint that this should not be done...and I am to speak to the facilities manager about this(!)
The facilities manager is too nice to tell her to do one...
So, what fun can I wreak on the [s]tormented soul of a madwoman[/s] lovely lady involved? Tomorrow small signs get screwed on to each parking bay - I am tempted to unscrew and move them all around 👿
(and is this how 'business' works - my yoghurt knitting friends and colleagues from a nice charity seem more human and friendly, and less bothered about [s]such crap[/s] issues.)
"where's the proof" that they have sole access to the parking plus private ground un enforcable regulation, jog on witch
[i]If[/i] the terms of their lease include these parking spaces then they are paying for them and you're not.
Make sure that she's watching out the window, run out to the car park and do the hokie cokie with your car in one of their disabled spots 😉
"where's the proof"
It is in all the leases...
If the terms of their lease include these parking spaces then they are paying for them and you're not.
It is more the way she has gone about informing us of this that is my issue... 😉
Well that's another reason I'm glad I don't work in an office environment.
Not unusual if they are paying for them, they're theirs, not yours/anyones.
Had these at a previous office, we had one space (mine) - when I wasn't there the team just divvy-ied it up between themselves.
The best bit is - they have 30 spaces (as do we), and 8 employees...
Make sure that she's watching out the window, run out to the car park and do the hokie cokie with your car in one of their disabled spots
Made even better if I tag team with colleagues...
exhaust whistle
Stick flyers up in the local shops advertising a Monday morning car boot sale at your building car park (in aid of the charity). Pack the place out with cars and the folding tables.
Borrow a tank?
Go and 'borrow' a load of traffic cones for a nightime raid - the big heavy ones.
rope off all their spaces in the early hours
matt_outandabout - Member
I dropped a couple of colleagues back at the office this afternoon at 5:15 - and did a three point turn to immediately leave, using a spare parking bay to do this. Another complaint that this should not be done...The best bit is - they have 30 spaces (as do we), and 8 employees...
Hahaha, do everything you can to wind this idiot up, just promise to keep us informed.
Plant hire, nice big road drill and compressor, drill all their spaces up, and pile it in their lobby, they obviously want them, so might as well keep them indoors nice and safe.
Double park two of the parking bays, just to see what sort of reaction it creates
Can you modify one of the emails to swap the words parking with toilet cubicle, then stick one to the inside of every toilet cubicle door?
Oops! Double post
fell asleep on keyboard 😳
Phone a skip hire company. In fact, better still, phone 3 or 4. Get them to deliver their skips at intervals throughout the day, neatly placed in various parking bays (theirs not yours obviously!)
Then order a ton of gravel, again with the request that it be dropped just in the confines of one parking bay. Repeat with bricks, sand and any other building materials you can think of.
And give her name/company as the address for all the invoices.
Put a chalk 'body' line down in one of the spaces overnight, with a splodge or two of ketchup
Just you, or is everyone in on it ?
Park your cars in your own area, but REALLY badly - at angles, over the lines etc. If your section adjoins theirs, concentrate on those bits.
Get over it and park where you're supposed to?
Invite a collective of non card carrying members of the caravan club to stay for a while?
Paint disabled parking logos on every parking space on the car park. Should be quick and easy with a good stencil.
Just you, or is everyone in on it ?
I think our lot would be well up for a giggle...
Is it Tarmac or paviers? Rearrange the paviers so her parking spaces are all a foot narrower.
Tricker if it's painted on Tarmac, you'd need a big blowtorch.
Personally I stay away with people who are so unhinged about such minor matters that they have to play passive aggressive games instead of have a face to face chat. You get dragged into their screwed-up worlds...
Personally I stay away with people who are so unhinged about such minor matters that they have to play passive aggressive games instead of have a face to face chat. You get dragged into their screwed-up worlds...
......Yeah but it can be sooo much fun if you know this beforehand
If you're local, I have a few car clamps you can borrow.
Park straight every day, but all move consistently left, 1 inch, each week.
Park in a circle like wagons from the wild west
Drac - Moderator
Well that's another reason I'm glad I [s]don't work in an office environment.[/s][b]drive an ambulance and can park it almost anywhere![/b]
FTFY!
Know anyone with a caravan? 😀
Oh my, you can have so much fun with her. Keep us posted on how you mess with her petty little mind.
Do something different every day and make sure everyone in your office is in on it. Even better if you stay away from their bays (so that she has no legitimate grievance) but still gets wound up.
Day 1. All park perpendicular to the marked bays.
Day 2. All park herringbone/angled.
Day 3. All park exactly half-way across two bays, but up tight with each other.
Day 4. All park completely randomly.
Day 5. All park in their bays. When confronted, say you forgot which were yours.
Day 6. All park perfectly - front in.
Day 7. All park perfectly - reverse park.
Day 8. Everyone park on-street leaving your spaces empty.
Day 9. Hire a RWD car and do burnouts in their car park.
Day 10. All completely random again.
matt_outandabout - Member - Quote
worked herself up for an hour...
came and had a strop...
seriously stroppy emails....
tormented soul of a madwoman...
Have a serious word with yourself and ask who is actually getting more worked up about this....
Smart cars, 2 per bay.
Park them facing the bays next to them, get building management to send an email out to move the car, so you can get the smarts out.
I could have so much fun with this
Park in your official allocated bays once those are fun park on the road/verges outside whilst those 'reserved' spaces remain all day signalling to one and all who the Billy no mates are.
As for the three point turn despite facilities being too nice tell them to P off, after all they have created this situation so deserve some flack back.
Not unusual if they are paying for them, they're theirs, not yours/anyones.
Get over it and park where you're supposed to?
Have a serious word with yourself and ask who is actually getting more worked up about this....
I'm inclined to agree with this, however, the 3-point-turn thing is ridiculous.
If she goes out to post notices on the cars again, have everyone with a remote control fob hit the panic button. Honk, honk, honk, and lights flashing everywhere! 😆
Also works well for someone trying to make a call on their cell phone in the parking lot! 😉
We had it in another office, after a year or so people in the upstairs company complained and most of us lost access to the car park. Wouldn't be as bad if they actually used the spaces most were dropped off.
Park the cars in a pattern to spell something. "FU" would be pretty easy! 😀
Forget all these random parking ideas. Just invade Poland if you really want to stir things up. That would be the grown up thing to do.
Alternatively, why not arrange a meeting with the nice lady, yourself and the Facilities Manager and reach some to an amicable agreement. Life is too short.
Pin up a notice from a utility company stating they will be putting in new services across the car park.
Due to this a large number of bays will be unavailable (insert numbers of theirs) for several weeks.
Set up an email, complaints@utilitycompany.com and then an autoreply stating undeliverable as mailbox full 🙂
Get some of that 'Police' barrier tape from ebay and cordon off a couple of their spaces.
Have a couple of people randomly walk over to the area, stand and stare for a couple of minutes before shaking their heads and walking away. When she eventually asks what occurred, just tell her you've Ben told not to talk to anyone about it.
People drive to work? How quaint.
Life really, really is too short - you're coming across as a real tool.
Life really, really is too short - you're coming across as a real tool.
Lighten up, I doubt the OP is *actually* planning on doing (m)any of these things. Its just a bit of a laugh. In case you've forgotten what that is:
[url= http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laughter ]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laughter[/url]
HTH
People drive to work? How quaint.
Life really, really is too short - you're coming across as a real tool.
He really isn't, just sounds like it would be funny if it wasn't true. However you sound like one of those condescending arses who likes to point out that they cycle to work don't you know which makes you super awesome.
Buy some toy matchbox cars and put one in the centre of every space one morning. Then order some flowers round with an apology for the shaky start 🙂
Commission a pavement artist to come over one night and draw giant inferno pits of hell in each of your spaces, then park in theirs. When she complains, just point at your spaces and go 'Duuurrrgh!' and refuse to enter any discussion. If she goes to walk on them pull har back and then claim by email to your mate / cc everyone that you saved her life.
matt_outandabout - Member
The best bit is - they have 30 spaces (as do we), and 8 employees..
Makes absolutely no difference. If they own or rent the building and the 30 spaces then they are legally [i]theirs[/i]. They might even need the extra spaces for meetings and events - but whatever, it's their business. I have been there and done that and have several t-shirts, so I can sympathise with your nemesis.
I know it's cool in a kind of sixth form student-debate, Trotskiist way to diss the concept of capital and property, but look at it this way; if your neighbours started parking cars, caravans, skips on the driveway of your home, because there was space to do so, would you put up with it?
Steal a load of cars and burn them out in "their" spaces. The police will understand, just show them this thread.
I have nothing to suggest but it's good to see STW carries on having a good number of members still waiting for their sense of humour to appear 😛
Bouquet of flowers for the stressed neighbour when you go round to borrow some sugar. Sit down, have a chat, try and get an angle on her point of view. It could be a very long tennancy trying to be ever more creative to subvert/wind up.
We had a Mr Traffic at our previous lease, a royal PITA with fluorescent yellow coat but this was with five or nine spaces per office with n+1 people wanting a slot.
No cycle rack, no-one would sacrifice a space.
My goodness the practical advice is dull!
Just pretend your car broke down and you had to push it into one of their slots, and then leave it there for two weeks while you cycle to work. 🙂
Draw the outline of a body in white paint in one of the spaces and cordon it off with Blue and White police tape.
If you've got eight staff then why not all park in a swastika type pattern right outside the lovely lady's office?
Yeah swastikas lol 🙄
One company has a female director
Did that upset you?
We had five spaces at our old office, which was fine to start with as their was just two of us based in the office most days, and I walked. Some of the other offices in the building had loads of staff and still only five spaces.
From time to time we had the reps, MD, accountant, share holders etc come to visit and the 4 spare spaces from the office would always be taken.
The MD solved this by arranging for works vans to be parked in the spaces of the facilities manager, and the two labelled spaces for MD's of the other offices, within a few days we stopped having issues.
unscrew and move them all around
Just do this.
Do the disabled spots have any legal protection? Putting their company signs on disabled parking spots does smack of tiny-mindedness.
Putting their company signs on disabled parking spots does smack of tiny-mindedness.
It sounds like the sort of thing that should be horribly illegal. I'd expect you'd have a pretty solid discrimination case if a disabled person was prevented from using a disabled bay for a building.
just make sure everyone 3 point turns in their spaces when entering and leaving the car park for a week or two, as moaning about this is petty and ridiculous.
Apart from that, don't park in their spaces and let it go.
Club together and buy a scrap car then polish it up so it looks nice and leave across 2 spaces.Randomly move it each night.
Presumably a 13point turn os acceptable. Leave a note held against her bumper with yours.
Have a serious word with yourself and ask who is actually getting more worked up about this....
I'm inclined to think it's not the OP...
Meh, I'm over it now.
It was fun to see the blood bank at work yesterday, although if I had of been there in the morning, I know where I would have suggested the HGV should have parked... 😉
Meh, I'm over it now.
How boringly grown-up of you 🙂
Make sure that she's watching out the window, run out to the car park and do the hokie cokie with your car in one of their disabled spotsMade even better if I [s]tag team with colleagues[/s] strip off first...
So your business upped sticks and moved office without checking how much car parking was included in the terms of the new lease?
Thats actually more funny than the mad MD with the post it notes.
In reality it sounds like the fm people failed to actually tell the new tenants about car parking and if they are letting one of the tenants walk all over them it's probably not going to be a great time.
I think you should start leaving these coming out of each of their spaces...
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Get some signs up for a car boot sale........on a Thursday morning. 🙂
The car boot sale, and dumped old wagon are tempting...