Employee gets his car towed after refusing to move it from coworker's private parking spot for over a day: ‘Turns out it's the fourth complaint for his license plate’

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Bar Mor Hazut • Senior Editor
Jul 4, 2025 10:00 AM EDT

Pro tip: If you ask someone for a favor, try not to overstay your welcome. There is no reason to make them regret ever agreeing to help you out, especially if you plan on seeing that person again. What's the problem with asking for the favor, getting it done, saying thank you, and calling it a day? Why do some people feel the need to take more than they were given?

Sometimes one favor calls for another, and that is understandable, but you can't make a habit out of it, and you can't demand anything you are not legitimately entitled to.

Take the employee in the story below as an example. He asked a coworker for a favor–to use their office parking spot for a couple of hours. The coworker graciously agreed, but mentioned a specific time at which they need the spot back. So far, so good, right?

However, when that coworker arrived to park their car, they saw that the car was still there and the owner was unreachable. Eventually, the car was forced to remain there until it was towed the next day, and said employee is never going to be able to ask for any favors in the office ever again…

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    Made him wait all day

    So my company let you choose between two option when you get employed here, ether you take the option to have all you public transport reinbursed, or you got a parking spot in the underground building.
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    Last week one of my coworker asked me if he can take my spot for today morning. Told him I'll back in office at 10am and need my spot at this time
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    for the day having a few meeting. He told me to not worry Cue today at 10am nobody in sight, he don't andwer my calls
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    so I wait till 10:20 still nobody so I park as close as I can behind him and leave it here already late for my meeting. He start to call me at 3PM to leave. 5 hours after the time I
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    told him I needed my space. So I told him I'm in a meeting and can't move. He start to spam me at 3:30 to get my car out the way, I was taking a cofee break with another coworker
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    and let him know I still was in meeting. At 5PM (2hours ago) after 12 missed call from him, a coworker told me he had leave the building and called a taxi lol
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    Leave at 5:10PM and let the building management that someone is in my spot since this morning. Will see tomorrow how it goes. Take my time I'll take yours
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    UPDATE today 11AM : Sooo this morning came to work at 7AM and surprise the cowerker's car was still there. I parked again in front but this time not as closer at yesterday.
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    My first meeting start a 8AM still nothing. At 8:30 management building start trying to call me but I'm in the middle of my meeting so I can't answer. Thet call me 4 times in a row.
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    Around 8:45 management building show up in my meeting room with my boss I have to end my call "urgent matter". Turn out my car is blocking the big a SUV of a
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    boss from another department who want to leave the building. 3 people stuck in the parking till before 8AM. I explain that coworker's car is on my spot till yesterday and I
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    have nowhere to park (street parking spot are 16€/hour so no way I park there and it's hot as f right now in europe). Boss call coworker... No answer
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    Around 9AM towing company show up and take his car. And from there it take a sharp turn, management call me at 10AM (1hour ago) to ask how many time my coworker did
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    that, I answer it's the first time and ask what the problem is, turn out it's the fourth complaint for this licence plate and management building found out coworker enter the
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    underground parking lot nearly everyday (we have to use a company badge to open the door). Sooo I don't know what will happen next for him (other that
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    going to retrieve his car in the towing company lot) but seems like he is scamming the company for reuinbursement of a annualy public transport pass (around 1k€) and what else?
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    Still no sign of life from coworker, but boss and management building are fuming lol Will update if he ever show up
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    UPDATE 2: Sorry for the late update, got lots of work. Coworker called me at 1PM asking me where his car was. Told him it had been towed out
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    of building, and that I can explain what happened just come join the team at the lunching breakroom, he hung up on me and teleported in the lunchroom (I mean we are at
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    the third floor from ground so fourth floor from parking and he was there in like 20secondes). He oppened the door and became SCREAMING at me telling me he had emails of me
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    accepting giving my spot for that day. Boss came by allerted by the screaming and took the two of us in his office. He asked for his version of the story, and again my version, asked for the email proof that said I had
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    accepted for the day... Only had my email informing him I'll need my spot back at 10am. Boss asked where he was this morning and coworker said he was with one of our client, boss
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    called client to confirm... No confirmation on his end. Boss called HR, asked me to leave his office.
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    We didn't heard what was told but they stayed there for a good 45minutes, HR lady made 2 back and forth from the printer room and we saw coworker leave red faced not
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    saying a word. Boss told us nothing about what happened so maybe it's the last update since I'm going home now. UPDATE 3: Will update this afternoon boss and HR spoke to all of us today.
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    NoReality08 he wanted the spot, you gave him the full experience.
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    ThanatosONaUnicorn I wouldn't have waited 20 extra minutes if I were running late because of that ah. He deserved to be blocked in, I'd love to know what happens tomorrow ②
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    Vandreeson Your time wasn't important to him, so his time isn't important to you.
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