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This is something I was briefly embroiled in, but not as a worker, and the woman was not a customer (well, not of mine, anyway).
I came home the other day and found a woman angrily pacing in the lobby and talking on the phone. She saw me and started ranting about how somebody had "blocked her in."
For background, I live in an apartment building. There is limited above-ground and below-ground parking. You have to put your name down for a parking space; when you get one you pay for it and it is the only spot you can park in. Cheerily parking in another empty spot puts you at risk for being ticketed or towed when the owner of THAT spot shows up. Note: There are three visitors' parking spaces near the front of the building, but you're not supposed to park in them overnight, so that's not really an option for tenants who found their space blocked. There are also signs of varying sizes all over the place saying "Tenant parking only" or something similar. At the time of my encounter it was dark out, but I don't know whether she got there after dark, and in any case the parking lot is very well lit. The spot she'd parked in has a very sizable sign saying that you cannot park there.
You see where this is going.
I tell her the parking lot situation.
"But I'm a PSW! I was seeing a client! I'm covering for another worker and I was seeing a client! Now I'm going to be late for my other clients!" (PSW=Personal Support Worker; I live in a building catering to seniors so yeah, there are lots of PSWs coming and going.)
"Yes, but ..." and I went through the whole explanation again.
"But I'm a PSW! I was seeing a client! Now I'm going to be late getting to my other clients!"
I go through the whole spiel AGAIN and tell her that her employer has to get in touch with the company running this building and set something up regarding her parking.
"But I'm a PSW! I was seeing a client! And now I'm going to be late to my other clients!"
I swear, we went through this another two times or so.
I finally tell her that I have blocked people in for exactly the same reason. Done it before, will do it again. She looks at me as if I've just told her I had a puppy sandwich for lunch.
She CAN NOT get it through her head that the actual owner of that parking space has no way of knowing who the "invading" car belongs to, nor how long said invader will be here, and CANNOT PARK ANYWHERE ELSE.
At some point she has called the (lucky
) tenant who has night duty. The first words out of his mouth when he exits the elevator: "CAN YOU NOT READ?!?"
I came home the other day and found a woman angrily pacing in the lobby and talking on the phone. She saw me and started ranting about how somebody had "blocked her in."
For background, I live in an apartment building. There is limited above-ground and below-ground parking. You have to put your name down for a parking space; when you get one you pay for it and it is the only spot you can park in. Cheerily parking in another empty spot puts you at risk for being ticketed or towed when the owner of THAT spot shows up. Note: There are three visitors' parking spaces near the front of the building, but you're not supposed to park in them overnight, so that's not really an option for tenants who found their space blocked. There are also signs of varying sizes all over the place saying "Tenant parking only" or something similar. At the time of my encounter it was dark out, but I don't know whether she got there after dark, and in any case the parking lot is very well lit. The spot she'd parked in has a very sizable sign saying that you cannot park there.
You see where this is going.
I tell her the parking lot situation.
"But I'm a PSW! I was seeing a client! I'm covering for another worker and I was seeing a client! Now I'm going to be late for my other clients!" (PSW=Personal Support Worker; I live in a building catering to seniors so yeah, there are lots of PSWs coming and going.)
"Yes, but ..." and I went through the whole explanation again.
"But I'm a PSW! I was seeing a client! Now I'm going to be late getting to my other clients!"
I go through the whole spiel AGAIN and tell her that her employer has to get in touch with the company running this building and set something up regarding her parking.
"But I'm a PSW! I was seeing a client! And now I'm going to be late to my other clients!"
I swear, we went through this another two times or so.
I finally tell her that I have blocked people in for exactly the same reason. Done it before, will do it again. She looks at me as if I've just told her I had a puppy sandwich for lunch.
She CAN NOT get it through her head that the actual owner of that parking space has no way of knowing who the "invading" car belongs to, nor how long said invader will be here, and CANNOT PARK ANYWHERE ELSE.
At some point she has called the (lucky
) tenant who has night duty. The first words out of his mouth when he exits the elevator: "CAN YOU NOT READ?!?"
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