Parking Policies
Posted: Thu 30 October, 2008 Filed under: Cynicism, Thoughts, Weirdness 2 Comments »I swear, I’m never going to understand some people.
In the new job, there’s a large staff car park – which is fine, there’s a lot of staff. There’s no space reservations, or team/department delineations on who parks where – it’s just “find a space and use it”. However, most mornings I’ll see people either:
- ‘Having’ to park in ‘their’ space (and/or getting annoyed because some inconsiderate soul has parked in ‘their’ space)
or - Driving round the car-park (sometimes twice) in order to find the “best” parking spot – despite driving past any number of empty spaces in order to find one closest to the office.
Me, I just use the first space I see. It’s simple. I’m capable of remembering where my car is in the car park, and going back to it when I leave the office.
So I just don’t really understand these little obsessions with having one’s own parking space, or with trying to find the absolute closest available space to minimise walking (one assumes) when you’ve already driven past umpteen empty spaces.
Just bizarre, in my (oh so) humble opinion.
It’s years since I last had a regular place of work, and there we all had allocated places. Professionals closer to the office than clerical staff (presumably we were deemed to be lazier).
But, I’m a bit of a creature of habit when it comes to supermarket car parks. I have my corner where I try to park (fewer nasty doors and passing trolleys to make dents and scrapes in one’s car’s sides), and if not, I have two other spots I aim for.
Does that make me incomprehensible too? 😉
Yep, it does. 😛
If parking places are allocated, fine, I don’t have an issue with people going to their parking space. That makes sense. It’s when they’re unallocated, and people still define a parking space as “theirs” that I find weird.
Then again, lots of people have issues with hot-desking too (i.e. sitting at a random desk, instead of an assigned one) and as a contractor I never have a problem with that either.
As for finding a space that’s going to minimise dents/trolley-impacts/whatever, that makes sense too (to a degree, anyway) – but I’ve got the same issue with people who drive round and round the supermarket car park, waiting for a spot close to the shop itself to open up. I’ll just park where possible and walk.