'Well my boss said they are transferable': Employee finds loophole in bogus parking policy, maliciously complies until he gets what he wants

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Ben Weiss • Writer and Editor
Oct 4, 2023 8:00 AM EDT

If you have to fight for a parking space at work, your employers are not taking care of you. That was certainly the case for this Redditor, who worked in security at a luxury hotel that had one parking lot for all employees and guests. When his employers updated the policy to ensure that at least one-fourth of the spaces were reserved for employees, OP and his coworkers were told to apply for parking permits. Now, if you don't necessarily drive the same car to work every day, you would run into trouble just like OP did. 

Thankfully, he wasn't the type of guy to blindly comply with silly rules. He found a loophole through his boss, who told him that permits should be transferable from vehicle to vehicle provided that it's the same driver. However, each time he drove to work with a different vehicle, he needed to undergo a whole process. Well, OP was willing to do that if it meant that he would exhaust the parking folks to the point that they would give in and make various permits for each of his cars.

Keep scrolling below for the full story and for the best reactions in the comments section. For more stories like this, check out this post about a tech employee who caused his boss some well-earned grief.

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    Wood - Ausgang "Parking at my work is a nightmare..."
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    Font - Parking at my work is a nightmare... м ос So, for a bit of a back story. I am an overnight security guard. I work 7pm to 7am most nights. I am with a company that has contracts with other companies for security, usually hotels, apartment complexes, Clubs, etc. For this one particular site i work at 90% of the time, the parking is terrible. Its a luxury hotel, and the parking garage is nowhere near as accomodating as it should be. The hotel has valet, and a resturant on the top floor. The
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    Font - maybe 100 spots for all employee's and hotel/resturant guests. They recently made it so that roughly a 1/4 of the garage is reserved for employee's, which is nowhere near enough. They also made it so you need a parking permit to park there.
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    Font - If you dont have a permit, you get towed. One warning allowed via a sticker on your car. The garage is also valet only for non-employee's. Only other option is to pay to park in the street. Personally, i have 3 cars not counting my SO's that i drive on occasion. The parking permits list your cars year, make, model, color,
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    Font - and license plate number. My boss told me that the permits are transferrable between cars, but they will come and ask you why the permit does not match the car. My boss told me to say "Well (Bosses name) told me that the permits are transferable between cars, and this is the car i drove today" Also, i asked them for permits for all of my cars to save time, and they said every person only get one permit. I was also told that they HAVE TO CHECK every time the permit does not match, wether t
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    Font - day i recieved my permit, i contined to drive a different car every day. One of my 3 cars, my SO's car, my moms car, her boyfriends car, every car i was able to drive, i drove to work. After a while management was starting to get upset about it. I gave them the same answer every time. I told them "Well my boss said they are transferable, and this is the car i drove here today." After about a month and a half of this, i came in one day to my office and there it was in all its glory, a stac
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    Rectangle - Facosa99 12 hr. ago For a second i read "(...) my SO's car, her boyfriend's car (...)" and i was confused for a bit
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    Font - ChiTownBob 12 hr. ago They do have the ability to analyze and adapt. -- Riker from Star Trek the Next Generation "Best of Both Worlds"
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    Rectangle - kenzyy49 12 hr. ago Well done sir! Now just drive one car for a period of time to really mess with their heads.
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    Font - . blackav3nger · 11 hr. ago It would have been easier if they had just given you one permit and had a spreadsheet with all of your vehicles information. Most of my sites were set up that way. The information had to be in their records anyway, and a pdf/printed spreadsheet would have been the easiest way for storage.
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    Font - saminator0107 OP. 11 hr. ago Yep. Its a luxury hotel. So that means $$$. Sometimes people with $$$ love to over complicate things, so yeah.
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    Font - john_jdm9 hr. ago I thought for sure this was going to be a story about security guards not being considered employees and therefore not being able to park.
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    Font - derklempner 2 hr. ago Parking at my work is a nightmare... You think you have it bad? I used to work at a hydrant factory. You couldn't park anywhere near that place.
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    Font - Coolbeanschilly. 4 hr. ago It's amazing how people stop wasting your time when you turn their own weaponized incompetence policy on them, thus making them bear the burden of consequence.
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    Rectangle - Techn0ght 1 hr. ago And the whole family then had free parking when they needed to be near that hotel. Nice.
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    Font - NonKevin 2 hr. ago By the way, this guy did get an assigned parking space again, but it was in the east parking lot, read below for details.
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