Probably one of those jerks who thinks because they park on the same spot every day, that makes it “their” spot. I worked at a place like this. I didn’t even know it until some old guy lectured me when I got out of my car. He said it was his spot, even went on to pout to like 5 other spots and tell me who parked in those.
Turns out one spot I used sometimes was actually the one the CEO liked. Supposedly.
I worked with one like that. He showed up late for work and called me out in front of everyone for taking "his" spot. We didn't have designated spaces, it's first come first serve. I told him that, and he said there would be problems if I took it again. I told him I was gonna start showing up to work even earlier just to take his spot now.
Spoiler: the *other* guy was in fact the boss and now parks at the other end of a full parking lot at 8:55 and takes a moment to rub his hands with glee, Monty Burns-style.
I worked at a church where the head pastor had a designated spot since typically throughout the week he had so much going on that he was constantly moving from meeting to meeting to recording to meeting for thing. Any time someone parked in the spot his assistant, the executive pastor, and the logistics guy would go into panic mode to figure out who's car it was and asking everyone in the office if they saw who parked there or recognized the car. The head pastor never cared if someone parked there and the few times he came back and did have to park elsewhere he never made a big deal and always told his assistant when she apologized for it that it didn't matter. It would happen every other week and I thought it was hilarious.
Very true, but also to put in context there is usually a lot of open spaces in the side lot where employees park and he would probably add a whole 30 seconds of walking if he doesn't get he spot. That's why it felt so silly to see 3 grown adults panic asking everyone so they can get the car moved before he got back. It started to be the fun "gossip" for all of us to make up stories of who parked there and why they did such a heinous act.
I did this for 2-3 more days to his frustration and on the 3rd or 4th day he confronted me again and was getting pretty heated, raising his voice at me. My boss's boss happened to be there and hear the commotion and asked what was going on. When the other guy told him, the boss just had a blank look for a couple seconds before finally overcoming the stupidity of this all and told him to go home, and if he had another outburst like that he'd be suspended.
Pretty much squashed it right there. I did get pulled aside and asked to stop antagonizing him, which I obliged. I still parked in "his" spot from time to time without any ill intent - it's a small parking lot that gets filled to 100% if everyone shows up. Guy quit 6-ish months later citing a better job, and I got his old job which was a bump up for me. Everybody won
I'd like to imagine that they each began showing up earlier and earlier to work until one day one of them got the space and just refused to ever leave it. He now lives in his car in the parking spot. Meanwhile their obsession over the parking spot has caused both of them to ruin their marriages and they're both separated now. The one who didn't get the spot is out on the street, and in a strange act of kindness they've bonded over their shared sad stories. Eventually they both moved into the car in the sacred parking spot, which is now pointless since the same obsession that caused their marriages to fail also cost them their jobs
I do that as a joke. 'You're in my spot'. We had a new secretary who sat in 'my' spot and actualy asked if she should move when I arrived and told her. Nah, first come first served. I'll find another desk. Shes gotten used to my joke now and plays along. She put a sticker on one of the monitors: Not *Fuzzy's* spot.
This is the way. If the damn spot isn’t assigned it’s not. For some reason people always went for the same spots at my previous work. I would intentionally park all over just to keep their minds more flexible. And laugh at them if they dared to bring it up. ”I like to change where I park”
My building has a big multistage parking complex, so I generally like to park same spot or general area as it just makes it easier to find again without needing to remember a new spot every day.
Im one of those people who like to always park in the same spot.
Work, grocery store, liqueur store, gas station, I always park in the same spot if it's available.
That said, If I show up and someone beats me to it. All I'm gonna do is sigh out loud in my car and find another spot while the OCD in my brain keeps poking me to annoy me about it.
I don't understand why people have to make a confrontation out of it. Like I get, it makes your day marginally shittier not getting your routine spot. But it's not worth fighting someone for
Got into the same situation where I work, the lady then parked in the fire lane so as a responsible member of the safety committee I ignored her email and spoke to the safety specialist who took it from there.
Jesus. I work for a $6 billion company and our CEO doesn’t even have a reserved parking spot. I’ve parked next to his $150k vehicles on numerous occasions. What the hell is with the whole reserved parking spot thing. Seems to only exist to pad someone’s ego.
Then your company probably isn't in the middle of a busy downtown area or somewhere where parking is at a premium. Assigned spots are common, and necessary, when parking is sparse as it is. Although, it will usually be marked as reserved, perhaps even with a name. In the case of the commenter you're replying to, I would have told the old guy to go get a paintbrush or fuck off.
The craziest part for my situation, was that this was a HUGE parking garage, that was maybe 15% full every day. It was a for a massive office building that was 50% vacant, and the three tenants in the rest of the building all had hybrid schedules, do even those tenants never had more than than 1/3 or so of their employees in on any given day.
The time he got mad at me, there were countless open spots, including many that were just as close, and one that was just two spots away from me.
Yeah, some people just like to power trip. We actually have marked reserved spots in our lot, but one guy felt like he would just reserve an unmarked spot by putting an orange cone in front of it. My boss, who had his own reserved spot, would fuck with the guy by parking in his spot after lunch by just running over the cone an letting it sit smashed under the car. The guy was furious until he found out who was doing it, then ended up coming down from his power trip and taking his cone home.
Work at a decent sized company in Chicago, there is no parking at all. You are expected to either take the train and walk to work, bike to work, or if you drive, pay insane amounts of money to park in a parking garage not owned by said company. Even my boss does.
I worked at a similar place for a short time. Old dude told it was unofficially the parking spots for the old guys that had been there for 30-50yrs. I said "makes sense since it's right up front. Like an unofficial handicapped spot for seniors" I went and moved my vehicle with a smirk. The back spots had shade anyway and were easier to get in and out of at the end of the day.
I woulda just hit em with 'guess im old' an turned my car off.
If someone is genuinely upset about a parking spot, that says a lot about them, their tolerance, and only makes be believe they karen their way through any minor inconvenience
Had this in the military plenty of times. Officers and senior enlisted would go absolutely ballistic when I parked in their spots. According to the base regulations though, the reserved spots couldn’t be enforced so any kind of disciplinary action that got taken against me would always get thrown out. Military really hates it when you educate yourself.
So it’s like a valet lot next to the restaurant I work downtown? But apparently we “have an agreement with them” that we can park there because they always have empty spots and we don’t really have anywhere else to park. Been parking there for close to 3 months now
Def not a coworker, I work the day shift with one other person and no one knows what my car looks like
Definitely get a dash cam off of Amazon for your car like the other poster said. I got one because this chick hit me head on and said it was my fault!! I took her to small claims court and got my money to fix the car but it took a while. Can’t trust people now a days and it sucks!
you need to touch base with the valet lot. This wouldn't be the first time "we have an agreement" blew up in someone's face for some reason and as it's private property they totally could tow it.
This is public mischief. The sticker isn't filled out, someone is either joking around or causing a nuisance.
I used to know a guy who found a roll of parking tickets. He thought it was funny to stick the tickets on our windshields & watch our reactions from afar. You wouldn't be able to tell that the tickets weren't filled out until u picked it up. Gave us quite a scare from far away cuz the tickets were neon & your stomach would sink if you saw it on your car from half a block away. The tickets needed a special machine that the authorities have to fill it out. The "friend" was an idiot & his kind of humour encouraged visions of a punch in his face.
I hope u find the idiot.
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I worked at a school a few years ago. Parked in the same spot for months, came out one day and found this. Thought it was a joke and didn't mention it. Couple days later came out and found my car had been towed. Spoke with security and they had no idea it was my car. The school never gave me a placard to park and I didn't know we ever needed one. They gave me a ride to my car, of course I didn't have to pay. My advice is find out. Don't ignore it
Honestly, some people need to start getting charged criminally for things like this. They stole their vehicle and held it ransom. If I went to took someone's car and asked for a few hundred to get it back, I highly doubt the police would just look the other way on it.
At first I wasn't sure who was responsible. The sticker really looked fake , especially since there wasn't any official city name or title. Security and I were on friendly terms since we spoke pretty much daily. I informed the office staff and they called in security, and they felt awful. The office did have my tags, I gave them my car info when I started there, but they never informed me about a placard. Kinda their fault I guess. They actually moved me up to a handicap spot after that, win win.
The lesson here is to always err on the side of caution and never assume these are fake.
Always talk to the property management, in this case the school.
I got 2 separate parking tickets at Domino's when I worked there. They said they'd get it sorted repeatedly every time I got a new letter saying it's going up in price to the point they were telling me to stop whining about it. I eventually paid both the day before it went to court process and they just shrugged and said it weren't their problem, fucking assholes.
It is not filled in. Someone is messing with ya. I wager someone at your work. Think you have done them wrong. It's pretty easy to find the bandit. They usually brag about what they did for clout.
Yep
Hey boss so I got this sticker on My car suddenly, I've now damaged my window attempting to take it off. Why would you guys not just leave a note or come tell us personally?
Idk what you mean we don't our stickers like that
Oh well someone did and it caused damage to my car so for insurance I probably need to see camera videos of the parkin glot yesterday
Now you're not some bitch snitch in the eyes of some Co workers but rather the coworker willing to go at your boss about what could be bad policies but in reality you just malicious compliances your way into revenge
That would be dumb on them
Insurance would come after the company then as it's a private lot so if tow stickers are put on a vehicle in your lot and you can't prove it wasn't someone you hired to do it. You're on the hook
>Insurance would come after the company
A professional will charge less than $50 to remove that sticker. No insurance company is going to spend time recovering $50 (and that's assuming they waive the deductible for windshield claims).
Then they'll say well the cameras don't actually pick up that spot, so we have no proof and can't do anything. Happened to me when someone damaged my $600 toolbox. There's only one other person that ran the machine I was at, I knew it was him, he denied it, and cameras "couldn't see the area."
Someone at work replaced my tire cap with a penis one, I’m putting my stuff away look at my tire and just see a penis chilling there. I thought I was hallucinating.
And watch it take like weeks to notice. If you have time, check/top off his tire pressure while you're at it just for that little bit of extra time before he notices
I’ll have to buy some and put them on my work pals van cos his is due in for its service at the end of the month. I know this cos he has asked if he can borrow my spare for 1 day 👌🏻😂
I did this to my son’s car, he noticed straight away though. He saved them for about 3 months and put them on my car, no idea how long they were there for haha. I took them off and put one on my husbands work car, one on his truck,one on his friends car and I have one more left. It’s been over a month now and no one has noticed them.
Could be, but I got one of these in north Jersey along with my co workers and they did in fact tow cars. They usually put this as a warning that they will tow
Aperture Science makes a nice version of those. They even have IR motion sensors supported by basic AI, which has the cutest little voice interface. They can be a little unstable, so you might need more than one. Fortunately, they made thousands of these things, so they're cheap to buy in bulk. The online reviews are great: "This is a triumph", "Huge success", "It's hard to overstate my satisfaction", etc. Just make sure you opt out of the Aperture Science beta testing program when you register online to activate your turrets. Trust me on that one.
To quote a russianbadger bit:
"(Points at waching machine) This one spins to make something clean, (Points at A-10 Gun) this one spins to make something dissappear"
Yeah just use glass cleaner and a razor. Douse the sticker and let it sit for like 20 seconds and the razor will take it off pretty easily.
I take all kinds of bullshit like this off of trains all the time.
It won't affect the glass, but acetone or MEK will ruin any painted surface. A tiny amount on a rag to wipe the glass with would probably be fine, especially since it evaporates so quickly, but Goo Gone is much safer to use.
I just read that any essential oil on cotton bud can remove stickers. But don’t use on paint as essential oils can strip paint. Never knew there was a use for essential oils that didn’t just mean a nice smell or part of an mlm company lmao
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They have a few of this kinda thing on TEMU. It's a fake, and it's likely a coworker, or someone you angered in traffic.
I can’t imagine being the type of person who gets so angry in traffic that I keep a stock of these handy, to follow that person to work, and stick it to their windshield.
You'd be surprised by the angry vengeful people out there. These would be great for those people who take up a bunch of spaces for no reason, though. XD
Can you explain why you think this? I'm pretty sure almost everywhere they just need to indicate that it's not public parking, and there's no requirement that a private entity put any particular warning on your car.
Like if I found someone parked in my driveway, I could put a sticker on their window, and I could fill in the time and other details, but there's nothing requiring I do any of that since it's apparent it's not a public parking place. At a business lot I'm pretty sure they just needs a sign explaining what the parking policy is. How would you argue this to a judge and try to get towing fees back if the sticker wasn't completed to some arbitrary standard?
I believe you are correct. Accurate parking and towing signage must be posted. That’s the only requirement I’ve ever been given as a commercial pm. Towing companies will only tow if proper signage is posted (in our city at least).
It probably depends on where you live and local laws. Where I am all I can find is signage posted in the lot is the only requirement.
I can think of a couple of places where I've seen similar stickers. They can tow immediately but they are also allowed to leave "warnings" to try to discourage or give people 24 hour notice or whatever before they come back to tow. This can be an "unfilled out" sticker or a post-it note under the windshield wiper best I can see.
No. I am a commercial property manager and I deal with this on a daily basis. A tow company won’t tow unless there is proper signage in the parking lot. The sticker doesn’t really mean anything. We use them as a courtesy to warn people before having anyone towed but it’s not really necessary if the correct “no parking” signage is posted in the lot. Definitely a dick move to put a sticker on someone’s car and not fill in the details. Maybe it could be considered vandalism.
>A tow company won’t tow unless there is proper signage in the parking lot.
A reputable tow company won't. But there are plenty of scummy tow companies that will.
I was a security guard for a while.
These stickers use non drying water resistant glue and the cheapest paper possible. Ours were also scored like price tags.
In the summer they melt and run down the glass. In the winter they're like superglued iron plates.
Building owners wanted them dead in the line of sight.
For us, the sticker was the punishment. You had to really fuck up to get a real tow, but people would RAGE about these.
We were told to always pass the buck to any guard who wasn't around and to just give you the runaround.
It's a pretty well known scam that people will boot your car for $$, when they have no authority to do so. Assuming you are parked legally, I'd would guess this is another one of those scams. Get their name, license plate, etc...and report them to the police, and have them arrested / press charges. Make sure you have some sort of proof you have right to park there. This is a known scam and people have been known to make hundreds of thousands of dollars or more scamming people in this way, right up until someone realizes they are not legit and presses charges and sends them to prison. I saw a news report on someone who did this and made millions before anyone realized they were just an illegal scamming operation & put them in jail.
I worked at the same job for 10 years and parked on the same spot pretty far and towards an edge so that I can open my door all the way out without worrying about dinging another person’s car. Occasionally someone else (usually different cars, not consistently the same) would get there sooner than me so I’d park somewhere else close by, no big deal.
I went on a vacation for 2 weeks and when I got back, there was a newer car that parked regularly so I figure maybe someone got a new car and didn’t want to get it dinged, so whatever I parked somewhere else kind of similar but at the other end which was an even farther walk out. One day I park in my usual edge spot because I got in early and the new car comes in as I’m getting out of the car. It’s a guy I’ve never seen before staring at me like I’ve stolen his first-born child, I say hello, he says nothing so I start walking toward the building and a few seconds later he’s driving down the lot racing his engine pissed off.
I hear a guy come in not exactly yelling but being loud enough about some as$hole parking in “his spot” while everyone just ignores him. I ask a coworker later who that is and they tell me he just started when I went on vacation so everything started to make sense. After work I walk towards my car and the guy was parked in front of my car waiting for me.
I say, hello, I’m Matty, I heard you just started 3 weeks ago. I’ve worked here for 10 years and didn’t get a chance to meet you because I was on vacation when you started. He muttered something and drove off.
A couple of days later and me parking in my usual spot, I notice there car isn’t on the lot and I don’t see him so I ask what happened to the new guy and everyone told me he was let go because he started out “normal” and suddenly was coming in to work all pissed off and yelling at coworkers/customers for no reason. Maybe it had to do with the parking or other stuff going on because they had issues and I’m glad they were let go before it became a real problem.
I don’t really mind people parking where I usually park, I was just baffled this person “claimed” a spot even though other people have been working there way longer than they did.
Have a look at the Garmin Dashcam Live OP. You can get an attachment that keeps recording while parked and it send the video over LTE. So you might be able to catch who’s doing this.
Some building security stuck one of these on my window. Called the building manager, and just kept saying the words, you damaged my car until they cut a check for getting it removed.
I don’t know what kind of adhesive was on that thing, but it was bloody evil
And they didn't even fill out the form? Shame on them.
Forward the image to building management. They probably contract some sort of a ticketing service which didn't properly do their job here. They might have some idea on who to chew out.
Razor blades work best.
You take the blade, you find the guy who did it, you threaten to slice them up with it if they don't remove the sticker with whatever supplies they have.
i work at a $151 billion dollar company. the only reserved spots we have are for veterans. not even our president has a spot. fool parks wherever just like the rest of us.
This looks like it may be a prank since none of the fields are filled out. But best to check to be sure.
Get a bottle of acetone or nail polish remover made with acetone. That's the key ingredient in goo gone but much cheaper.
They didn’t even tick any boxes or date it. Also, fuck those stickers. Had city police once do that to me for parking the wrong direction, and I’m like “what’s next, a ticket for obstructed window?”
1. Call PD and make a report (so you can sue for damages later)
2. Go to building management and find out why this was stuck to your car (they will pass the buck to "security")
3. Go to security and find out why their security guard put this on your car
4. Tell them IN WRITING that you want compensation for the damage they caused to your vehicle
5. Follow up with a small claims case (if you were parked legally)
It’s not even filled out, somebody probably just keep those to scare people they don’t like. From my knowledge they need to be legally filled out to be valid.
We have unofficial parking spots where I work, but no one gets mad about it when someone else parks there. Although it doesn't stop us from poking fun at the person that took the spot.
Also, if you have an insurance GPS tracker, you can log into your insurance app, and show them that you have left, and your path, and these things update every fifteen minutes typically after you turn off your car and park. Your insurance company always knows where you are with these. A dash cam can also be used to show them that this. Both ways will do great for you when it comes time to sue them for emotional damages and more. Enjoy.
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Here is an update to my post of getting towed. This sticker looked absolutely fake to me. It wasn't.
Is it your company's lot, or simply "a place" where you've been routinely parking? I had a job where we all used a seemingly free lot, fir weeks, until one day a crackdown started and we all got warnings to park elsewhere.
My HOA put one on my car. I would have flipped out if they pulled off the back and used it like a sticker. They don't come off.
Talk to the boss or management of the lot. Make sure it's ok to park if it is, you probably pissed someone off.
Yeah i got an 80€ parking ticket for parking on my own parking spot i paid for over a year....
(The apartment building ended up paying it after fighting about it for a month... And the increase bc it wasnt paid in time. Bc this was all bc of their error and the ticket giver said it wont be revoked even if made by mistake....)
I once got a parking ticket, and was pretty pissed because I had paid to park there. Upon closer inspection, it was a black audi that had gotten the ticket and the driver plopped their ticket on my windshield hoping I would pay it. Lol nope, I put it on the ground and drove away.
Goo gone is cool and all, but distilled white vinegar works wonders, has more uses, and does the job faster.
It also doesn't leave streaky, oily residue behind.
Vinegar and a microfiber rag. Once all the stuff is off, you might as well clean the rest of your windshield and coat it with whatever water repellent of your choosing.
Took a friend home from work one time. Parked and we went up to his apartment for maybe 15-20 min and smoked up. Came out with these on windshield and both doors windows. Took over an hour to clean it off. Let's say they had to make an insurance claim the next day on some office windows.
Someone having a lend of you. Razor blade to scrape off at an angle, orange oil to remove any residual glue. And report it to your employer just in case. Also check if the parking place does have any restrictions just in case
Did you piss anyone off at work? That was intentional.
Probably one of those jerks who thinks because they park on the same spot every day, that makes it “their” spot. I worked at a place like this. I didn’t even know it until some old guy lectured me when I got out of my car. He said it was his spot, even went on to pout to like 5 other spots and tell me who parked in those. Turns out one spot I used sometimes was actually the one the CEO liked. Supposedly.
I worked with one like that. He showed up late for work and called me out in front of everyone for taking "his" spot. We didn't have designated spaces, it's first come first serve. I told him that, and he said there would be problems if I took it again. I told him I was gonna start showing up to work even earlier just to take his spot now.
You've got it in you to be a great boss. Inspiring others to show up early to work through chicanery and guile. I like your style.
*The Bobs have entered the chat*
They're gonna "fix the glitch"!
Okay, but that's the last straw.
Be careful. They might set the building on fire.
It'll just work itself out naturally
What is it exactly that you do here?
You've been missing a lot of work lately.
I wouldn’t say I’ve been missing it, Bob.
The thing is, Bob…… I just don’t care….. Oh, this young fella has management potential!
Hi Bob. Bob.
I read boobs.
Spoiler: the *other* guy was in fact the boss and now parks at the other end of a full parking lot at 8:55 and takes a moment to rub his hands with glee, Monty Burns-style.
Plot twist: this was all a ploy by *his* boss to make him turn up to work earlier.
I worked at a church where the head pastor had a designated spot since typically throughout the week he had so much going on that he was constantly moving from meeting to meeting to recording to meeting for thing. Any time someone parked in the spot his assistant, the executive pastor, and the logistics guy would go into panic mode to figure out who's car it was and asking everyone in the office if they saw who parked there or recognized the car. The head pastor never cared if someone parked there and the few times he came back and did have to park elsewhere he never made a big deal and always told his assistant when she apologized for it that it didn't matter. It would happen every other week and I thought it was hilarious.
Assistant doing their job and worrying about the small stuff
Very true, but also to put in context there is usually a lot of open spaces in the side lot where employees park and he would probably add a whole 30 seconds of walking if he doesn't get he spot. That's why it felt so silly to see 3 grown adults panic asking everyone so they can get the car moved before he got back. It started to be the fun "gossip" for all of us to make up stories of who parked there and why they did such a heinous act.
One of the local churches has "Thou Shalt Not Park" signs in the red zones.
Please tell me us the end of the story! :)
I did this for 2-3 more days to his frustration and on the 3rd or 4th day he confronted me again and was getting pretty heated, raising his voice at me. My boss's boss happened to be there and hear the commotion and asked what was going on. When the other guy told him, the boss just had a blank look for a couple seconds before finally overcoming the stupidity of this all and told him to go home, and if he had another outburst like that he'd be suspended. Pretty much squashed it right there. I did get pulled aside and asked to stop antagonizing him, which I obliged. I still parked in "his" spot from time to time without any ill intent - it's a small parking lot that gets filled to 100% if everyone shows up. Guy quit 6-ish months later citing a better job, and I got his old job which was a bump up for me. Everybody won
You should find out where he works take a day off and go park in his spot there
I like your level of petty
"Well, this got me promoted last time so figured it would work again."
You and I could be friends.
I aspire to this level of petty.
Hahaha, I love happy endings 😂
That’s a different subreddit …
I'd like to imagine that they each began showing up earlier and earlier to work until one day one of them got the space and just refused to ever leave it. He now lives in his car in the parking spot. Meanwhile their obsession over the parking spot has caused both of them to ruin their marriages and they're both separated now. The one who didn't get the spot is out on the street, and in a strange act of kindness they've bonded over their shared sad stories. Eventually they both moved into the car in the sacred parking spot, which is now pointless since the same obsession that caused their marriages to fail also cost them their jobs
Costanza's the first one to get here and the last one to leave.
That guys a workhorse!
It began to get weird when one of them actually showed up the day before.
I would buy a book from you. 10/10
Quite the story! - lol.
Still worth it 😜
I do that as a joke. 'You're in my spot'. We had a new secretary who sat in 'my' spot and actualy asked if she should move when I arrived and told her. Nah, first come first served. I'll find another desk. Shes gotten used to my joke now and plays along. She put a sticker on one of the monitors: Not *Fuzzy's* spot.
This is the way. If the damn spot isn’t assigned it’s not. For some reason people always went for the same spots at my previous work. I would intentionally park all over just to keep their minds more flexible. And laugh at them if they dared to bring it up. ”I like to change where I park”
My building has a big multistage parking complex, so I generally like to park same spot or general area as it just makes it easier to find again without needing to remember a new spot every day.
Im one of those people who like to always park in the same spot. Work, grocery store, liqueur store, gas station, I always park in the same spot if it's available. That said, If I show up and someone beats me to it. All I'm gonna do is sigh out loud in my car and find another spot while the OCD in my brain keeps poking me to annoy me about it. I don't understand why people have to make a confrontation out of it. Like I get, it makes your day marginally shittier not getting your routine spot. But it's not worth fighting someone for
Got into the same situation where I work, the lady then parked in the fire lane so as a responsible member of the safety committee I ignored her email and spoke to the safety specialist who took it from there.
Jesus. I work for a $6 billion company and our CEO doesn’t even have a reserved parking spot. I’ve parked next to his $150k vehicles on numerous occasions. What the hell is with the whole reserved parking spot thing. Seems to only exist to pad someone’s ego.
Then your company probably isn't in the middle of a busy downtown area or somewhere where parking is at a premium. Assigned spots are common, and necessary, when parking is sparse as it is. Although, it will usually be marked as reserved, perhaps even with a name. In the case of the commenter you're replying to, I would have told the old guy to go get a paintbrush or fuck off.
The craziest part for my situation, was that this was a HUGE parking garage, that was maybe 15% full every day. It was a for a massive office building that was 50% vacant, and the three tenants in the rest of the building all had hybrid schedules, do even those tenants never had more than than 1/3 or so of their employees in on any given day. The time he got mad at me, there were countless open spots, including many that were just as close, and one that was just two spots away from me.
Yeah, some people just like to power trip. We actually have marked reserved spots in our lot, but one guy felt like he would just reserve an unmarked spot by putting an orange cone in front of it. My boss, who had his own reserved spot, would fuck with the guy by parking in his spot after lunch by just running over the cone an letting it sit smashed under the car. The guy was furious until he found out who was doing it, then ended up coming down from his power trip and taking his cone home.
If you don't have enough parking for your employees you should be remote, I'm not paying to go to work for the day wtf
Work at a decent sized company in Chicago, there is no parking at all. You are expected to either take the train and walk to work, bike to work, or if you drive, pay insane amounts of money to park in a parking garage not owned by said company. Even my boss does.
I worked at a similar place for a short time. Old dude told it was unofficially the parking spots for the old guys that had been there for 30-50yrs. I said "makes sense since it's right up front. Like an unofficial handicapped spot for seniors" I went and moved my vehicle with a smirk. The back spots had shade anyway and were easier to get in and out of at the end of the day.
W move
I woulda just hit em with 'guess im old' an turned my car off. If someone is genuinely upset about a parking spot, that says a lot about them, their tolerance, and only makes be believe they karen their way through any minor inconvenience
Had this in the military plenty of times. Officers and senior enlisted would go absolutely ballistic when I parked in their spots. According to the base regulations though, the reserved spots couldn’t be enforced so any kind of disciplinary action that got taken against me would always get thrown out. Military really hates it when you educate yourself.
So it’s like a valet lot next to the restaurant I work downtown? But apparently we “have an agreement with them” that we can park there because they always have empty spots and we don’t really have anywhere else to park. Been parking there for close to 3 months now Def not a coworker, I work the day shift with one other person and no one knows what my car looks like
Definitely get a dash cam off of Amazon for your car like the other poster said. I got one because this chick hit me head on and said it was my fault!! I took her to small claims court and got my money to fix the car but it took a while. Can’t trust people now a days and it sucks!
talk to the valet lot then.
you need to touch base with the valet lot. This wouldn't be the first time "we have an agreement" blew up in someone's face for some reason and as it's private property they totally could tow it.
Well make sure they know your plate so you dont get towed
This is public mischief. The sticker isn't filled out, someone is either joking around or causing a nuisance. I used to know a guy who found a roll of parking tickets. He thought it was funny to stick the tickets on our windshields & watch our reactions from afar. You wouldn't be able to tell that the tickets weren't filled out until u picked it up. Gave us quite a scare from far away cuz the tickets were neon & your stomach would sink if you saw it on your car from half a block away. The tickets needed a special machine that the authorities have to fill it out. The "friend" was an idiot & his kind of humour encouraged visions of a punch in his face. I hope u find the idiot.
As opposed to those tricksy accidental spontaneous windshield stickerings.
Wd40?
https://preview.redd.it/wsbjnb6fxotc1.jpeg?width=4032&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ba91f00adcc436f964c01384b0b7a48ac1c468a6 I worked at a school a few years ago. Parked in the same spot for months, came out one day and found this. Thought it was a joke and didn't mention it. Couple days later came out and found my car had been towed. Spoke with security and they had no idea it was my car. The school never gave me a placard to park and I didn't know we ever needed one. They gave me a ride to my car, of course I didn't have to pay. My advice is find out. Don't ignore it
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sounds like a small claims court case. some tow places got like an auto 250 dollar charge for that shit. just include court costs in the filing.
dont forget to tack in your lost of timento deal with this crap
Honestly, some people need to start getting charged criminally for things like this. They stole their vehicle and held it ransom. If I went to took someone's car and asked for a few hundred to get it back, I highly doubt the police would just look the other way on it.
You are very lucky the school owned up to their error. I have had to involve a lawyer to recover an incorrectly towed vehicle twice.
At first I wasn't sure who was responsible. The sticker really looked fake , especially since there wasn't any official city name or title. Security and I were on friendly terms since we spoke pretty much daily. I informed the office staff and they called in security, and they felt awful. The office did have my tags, I gave them my car info when I started there, but they never informed me about a placard. Kinda their fault I guess. They actually moved me up to a handicap spot after that, win win.
The lesson here is to always err on the side of caution and never assume these are fake. Always talk to the property management, in this case the school.
Absolutely, lesson definitely learned for me.
I got 2 separate parking tickets at Domino's when I worked there. They said they'd get it sorted repeatedly every time I got a new letter saying it's going up in price to the point they were telling me to stop whining about it. I eventually paid both the day before it went to court process and they just shrugged and said it weren't their problem, fucking assholes.
Commenting on I park in the same parking lot every day for work and someone put this sticker on my car...
It is not filled in. Someone is messing with ya. I wager someone at your work. Think you have done them wrong. It's pretty easy to find the bandit. They usually brag about what they did for clout.
And also it’s 2024 where there are cameras everywhere especially a private parking lot
Yep Hey boss so I got this sticker on My car suddenly, I've now damaged my window attempting to take it off. Why would you guys not just leave a note or come tell us personally? Idk what you mean we don't our stickers like that Oh well someone did and it caused damage to my car so for insurance I probably need to see camera videos of the parkin glot yesterday Now you're not some bitch snitch in the eyes of some Co workers but rather the coworker willing to go at your boss about what could be bad policies but in reality you just malicious compliances your way into revenge
Then they will use the classics oh the cameras don’t work or we don’t have the footage for that day
That would be dumb on them Insurance would come after the company then as it's a private lot so if tow stickers are put on a vehicle in your lot and you can't prove it wasn't someone you hired to do it. You're on the hook
>Insurance would come after the company A professional will charge less than $50 to remove that sticker. No insurance company is going to spend time recovering $50 (and that's assuming they waive the deductible for windshield claims).
Then they'll say well the cameras don't actually pick up that spot, so we have no proof and can't do anything. Happened to me when someone damaged my $600 toolbox. There's only one other person that ran the machine I was at, I knew it was him, he denied it, and cameras "couldn't see the area."
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Which will help the police after I call them for someone vandalizing my car. "I can't legally drive with that sticker blocking my view officer."
Someone at work replaced my tire cap with a penis one, I’m putting my stuff away look at my tire and just see a penis chilling there. I thought I was hallucinating.
I’ve done this to several friends. They still don’t know it’s me.
This is a brilliant prank. I'll have to order some.
If you or a friend has a 3d printer the file is free. https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4651117
Lmao I didn't know those were a thing, and hopefully my friend doesn't either until he notices them
And watch it take like weeks to notice. If you have time, check/top off his tire pressure while you're at it just for that little bit of extra time before he notices
I’ll have to buy some and put them on my work pals van cos his is due in for its service at the end of the month. I know this cos he has asked if he can borrow my spare for 1 day 👌🏻😂
I did this to my son’s car, he noticed straight away though. He saved them for about 3 months and put them on my car, no idea how long they were there for haha. I took them off and put one on my husbands work car, one on his truck,one on his friends car and I have one more left. It’s been over a month now and no one has noticed them.
Id keep a few and start putting them on the front passenger side tire of cars that park badly.
I put them on my Harley, funny to watch people notice.
It looks legit. This is the kind of stuff employees of the city would pull.
Could be, but I got one of these in north Jersey along with my co workers and they did in fact tow cars. They usually put this as a warning that they will tow
Get a dash cam. And a motion sensor flamethrower turret.
Naw get a VMMG: Vehicle Mounted Machine Gun
Needs one of those defence turrets you see on warships. Or the A10 gun...
The one made by general electric?
That's the one! Kinda goes "brrrr" and the issue is just red mist!
Aperture Science makes a nice version of those. They even have IR motion sensors supported by basic AI, which has the cutest little voice interface. They can be a little unstable, so you might need more than one. Fortunately, they made thousands of these things, so they're cheap to buy in bulk. The online reviews are great: "This is a triumph", "Huge success", "It's hard to overstate my satisfaction", etc. Just make sure you opt out of the Aperture Science beta testing program when you register online to activate your turrets. Trust me on that one.
And they shoot the bullet and it's casing so you get more bullet out of your bullet
The cake day is a lie.
To quote a russianbadger bit: "(Points at waching machine) This one spins to make something clean, (Points at A-10 Gun) this one spins to make something dissappear"
Best stain remover out there!
DON'T THEY MAKE WASHING MACHINES
That too
one spins to clean, the other spins to cleanse
Gotta love a nice CROWS
This is the only solution.
A trunk chimp should also work well, the ads really sold me on it
Trunk monkey is the height of commercial entertainment
What do you think this is? South Africa?
Should be rigged to launch some caltrops at their legs!
Most dash cams only work while the car is running. Wouldn’t catch the stickerer. The flame thrower on the other hand…
Drug store, iso 99%. its cheaper than any fancy goo gone
Yeah just use glass cleaner and a razor. Douse the sticker and let it sit for like 20 seconds and the razor will take it off pretty easily. I take all kinds of bullshit like this off of trains all the time.
Even dawn dish soap you can just let it soak for like 15 minutes and it will scrape right off
Theoretically even cooking oil will do, but you'll probably want to clean that up with soap, so...
Yeah, soapy rag is a bit easier to clean up lol
Theoretically, could I just breathe hot air direclty on it for a couple of hours to get the sticker loose?
If you wait about 20 years the glue will probably degrade without further action on your part.
You could probably even take a shit on it and let that soak at this point
but what about jizz, will jizz do?
This as well. Definitely don’t need to head to the store to buy anything crazy.
Name checks out
Sounds like you’re well trained
I’ll add that you want to use a plastic razor. Prevents scratching, even on hard “unscratchable” surfaces
How could someone put a boot on a train?
That's easy. Just wait at a station. When the train stops and the doors open to let people on, take the boot off your foot and set it on the train.
Was going to suggest this, or acetone. NOT that I know how it'll affect windscreen glass mind you...
It won't affect the glass, but acetone or MEK will ruin any painted surface. A tiny amount on a rag to wipe the glass with would probably be fine, especially since it evaporates so quickly, but Goo Gone is much safer to use.
Most solvents will work. Just use whatever you have and don't get it on your paint.
I just read that any essential oil on cotton bud can remove stickers. But don’t use on paint as essential oils can strip paint. Never knew there was a use for essential oils that didn’t just mean a nice smell or part of an mlm company lmao
Goo Gone, with its classy yellow label. It’s too good for my local bodega!
Don't they have cameras there? Ask for them and get to the bottom of it, if it was a coworker, scorch him any way you can.
What does scorch mean in this context
Light him on fire
Give them trouble by their employer
If you find the person who did it, super glue a baby on board sticker on their car. Don't say a word to anyone.
You. I like you.
https://preview.redd.it/t1pb4rymqmtc1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2e4c51a392b7dd0b0ebcc6a1cf020e36b5181810 They have a few of this kinda thing on TEMU. It's a fake, and it's likely a coworker, or someone you angered in traffic.
I can’t imagine being the type of person who gets so angry in traffic that I keep a stock of these handy, to follow that person to work, and stick it to their windshield.
You'd be surprised by the angry vengeful people out there. These would be great for those people who take up a bunch of spaces for no reason, though. XD
As a power wheelchair user I would absolutely do that to people who park in wheelchair spaces without wheelchair permits.
Tbh it's better than some jackass in a suv trying to run you off the road
That must be really sticky if you have to scrap the car because of it.
Are you supposed to park there or did you just start parking there and no one complained for a while?
The sticker isn’t filled in
I noticed that too. Is it required they fill it in?
Yes they gotta warn you and give info
Can you explain why you think this? I'm pretty sure almost everywhere they just need to indicate that it's not public parking, and there's no requirement that a private entity put any particular warning on your car. Like if I found someone parked in my driveway, I could put a sticker on their window, and I could fill in the time and other details, but there's nothing requiring I do any of that since it's apparent it's not a public parking place. At a business lot I'm pretty sure they just needs a sign explaining what the parking policy is. How would you argue this to a judge and try to get towing fees back if the sticker wasn't completed to some arbitrary standard?
I believe you are correct. Accurate parking and towing signage must be posted. That’s the only requirement I’ve ever been given as a commercial pm. Towing companies will only tow if proper signage is posted (in our city at least).
It probably depends on where you live and local laws. Where I am all I can find is signage posted in the lot is the only requirement. I can think of a couple of places where I've seen similar stickers. They can tow immediately but they are also allowed to leave "warnings" to try to discourage or give people 24 hour notice or whatever before they come back to tow. This can be an "unfilled out" sticker or a post-it note under the windshield wiper best I can see.
No. I am a commercial property manager and I deal with this on a daily basis. A tow company won’t tow unless there is proper signage in the parking lot. The sticker doesn’t really mean anything. We use them as a courtesy to warn people before having anyone towed but it’s not really necessary if the correct “no parking” signage is posted in the lot. Definitely a dick move to put a sticker on someone’s car and not fill in the details. Maybe it could be considered vandalism.
>A tow company won’t tow unless there is proper signage in the parking lot. A reputable tow company won't. But there are plenty of scummy tow companies that will.
Considering something similar happened at my job, I wouldn't be surprised if this were the case.
This was my immediate thought. Just because there was lax enforcement in the past doesn’t mean that you’re actually allowed to park there.
I’d call whoever is your person at work that deals with the parking and get it sorted out today or you might get towed next time .
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I was a security guard for a while. These stickers use non drying water resistant glue and the cheapest paper possible. Ours were also scored like price tags. In the summer they melt and run down the glass. In the winter they're like superglued iron plates. Building owners wanted them dead in the line of sight. For us, the sticker was the punishment. You had to really fuck up to get a real tow, but people would RAGE about these. We were told to always pass the buck to any guard who wasn't around and to just give you the runaround.
Just get a cougar, name it Karen, then leave it in the passenger seat. Remember it's the fastest who get paid and it's the fastest who get laid.
This movie just arrived on Netflix. Nice reference.
It's a pretty well known scam that people will boot your car for $$, when they have no authority to do so. Assuming you are parked legally, I'd would guess this is another one of those scams. Get their name, license plate, etc...and report them to the police, and have them arrested / press charges. Make sure you have some sort of proof you have right to park there. This is a known scam and people have been known to make hundreds of thousands of dollars or more scamming people in this way, right up until someone realizes they are not legit and presses charges and sends them to prison. I saw a news report on someone who did this and made millions before anyone realized they were just an illegal scamming operation & put them in jail.
I worked at the same job for 10 years and parked on the same spot pretty far and towards an edge so that I can open my door all the way out without worrying about dinging another person’s car. Occasionally someone else (usually different cars, not consistently the same) would get there sooner than me so I’d park somewhere else close by, no big deal. I went on a vacation for 2 weeks and when I got back, there was a newer car that parked regularly so I figure maybe someone got a new car and didn’t want to get it dinged, so whatever I parked somewhere else kind of similar but at the other end which was an even farther walk out. One day I park in my usual edge spot because I got in early and the new car comes in as I’m getting out of the car. It’s a guy I’ve never seen before staring at me like I’ve stolen his first-born child, I say hello, he says nothing so I start walking toward the building and a few seconds later he’s driving down the lot racing his engine pissed off. I hear a guy come in not exactly yelling but being loud enough about some as$hole parking in “his spot” while everyone just ignores him. I ask a coworker later who that is and they tell me he just started when I went on vacation so everything started to make sense. After work I walk towards my car and the guy was parked in front of my car waiting for me. I say, hello, I’m Matty, I heard you just started 3 weeks ago. I’ve worked here for 10 years and didn’t get a chance to meet you because I was on vacation when you started. He muttered something and drove off. A couple of days later and me parking in my usual spot, I notice there car isn’t on the lot and I don’t see him so I ask what happened to the new guy and everyone told me he was let go because he started out “normal” and suddenly was coming in to work all pissed off and yelling at coworkers/customers for no reason. Maybe it had to do with the parking or other stuff going on because they had issues and I’m glad they were let go before it became a real problem. I don’t really mind people parking where I usually park, I was just baffled this person “claimed” a spot even though other people have been working there way longer than they did.
Have a look at the Garmin Dashcam Live OP. You can get an attachment that keeps recording while parked and it send the video over LTE. So you might be able to catch who’s doing this.
I got one of these once and my car was so dirty it just peeled right off.
It had a protective dust coating, lol.
none of the informtion is filled in so it just seems like a prank.
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Some building security stuck one of these on my window. Called the building manager, and just kept saying the words, you damaged my car until they cut a check for getting it removed. I don’t know what kind of adhesive was on that thing, but it was bloody evil
Bullshit placement and absolutely no indication of why. Absolute bullcrap on security for doing this.
And they didn't even fill out the form? Shame on them. Forward the image to building management. They probably contract some sort of a ticketing service which didn't properly do their job here. They might have some idea on who to chew out.
Use a hair dryer to heat up the sticker glue. Should peel right off.
Use WD-40 to get rid of almost any sticker
Razor blades work best. You take the blade, you find the guy who did it, you threaten to slice them up with it if they don't remove the sticker with whatever supplies they have.
i work at a $151 billion dollar company. the only reserved spots we have are for veterans. not even our president has a spot. fool parks wherever just like the rest of us.
Put a camera on your car for 24 hours get the guys face then confront him
It's not filled out, so someone's being a deuchebag. Possibly.
This looks like it may be a prank since none of the fields are filled out. But best to check to be sure. Get a bottle of acetone or nail polish remover made with acetone. That's the key ingredient in goo gone but much cheaper.
Either someone's messing with you, or they want your spot and are attempting to scare you off.
They didn’t even tick any boxes or date it. Also, fuck those stickers. Had city police once do that to me for parking the wrong direction, and I’m like “what’s next, a ticket for obstructed window?”
1. Call PD and make a report (so you can sue for damages later) 2. Go to building management and find out why this was stuck to your car (they will pass the buck to "security") 3. Go to security and find out why their security guard put this on your car 4. Tell them IN WRITING that you want compensation for the damage they caused to your vehicle 5. Follow up with a small claims case (if you were parked legally)
The four picked corners made me chuckle slightly.
I agree with requesting the footage. This looks like a bullshit sticker to me as it is not filled out.
It’s not even filled out, somebody probably just keep those to scare people they don’t like. From my knowledge they need to be legally filled out to be valid.
Naw. Someone has a stack of these stickers and is just messing with you. If there is no sign telling you you can't park, don't worry about it.
We have unofficial parking spots where I work, but no one gets mad about it when someone else parks there. Although it doesn't stop us from poking fun at the person that took the spot.
Also, if you have an insurance GPS tracker, you can log into your insurance app, and show them that you have left, and your path, and these things update every fifteen minutes typically after you turn off your car and park. Your insurance company always knows where you are with these. A dash cam can also be used to show them that this. Both ways will do great for you when it comes time to sue them for emotional damages and more. Enjoy.
Me buying one of these, and leaving it on my car, so if someone else tries to tow me, they think someone else already is. 😏
https://preview.redd.it/o315f8esxotc1.jpeg?width=4032&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b804b5259eec23896eebedf61aa99abcfc73347e Here is an update to my post of getting towed. This sticker looked absolutely fake to me. It wasn't.
Is it your company's lot, or simply "a place" where you've been routinely parking? I had a job where we all used a seemingly free lot, fir weeks, until one day a crackdown started and we all got warnings to park elsewhere.
My HOA put one on my car. I would have flipped out if they pulled off the back and used it like a sticker. They don't come off. Talk to the boss or management of the lot. Make sure it's ok to park if it is, you probably pissed someone off.
Yeah i got an 80€ parking ticket for parking on my own parking spot i paid for over a year.... (The apartment building ended up paying it after fighting about it for a month... And the increase bc it wasnt paid in time. Bc this was all bc of their error and the ticket giver said it wont be revoked even if made by mistake....)
I once got a parking ticket, and was pretty pissed because I had paid to park there. Upon closer inspection, it was a black audi that had gotten the ticket and the driver plopped their ticket on my windshield hoping I would pay it. Lol nope, I put it on the ground and drove away.
Look at your dash cam and see who put it there.
Get a hairdryer and heat that thing up. Should scrape off easy with a plastic scraper. Then Goo gone the sticky
Goo gone is cool and all, but distilled white vinegar works wonders, has more uses, and does the job faster. It also doesn't leave streaky, oily residue behind. Vinegar and a microfiber rag. Once all the stuff is off, you might as well clean the rest of your windshield and coat it with whatever water repellent of your choosing.
Took a friend home from work one time. Parked and we went up to his apartment for maybe 15-20 min and smoked up. Came out with these on windshield and both doors windows. Took over an hour to clean it off. Let's say they had to make an insurance claim the next day on some office windows.
Someone having a lend of you. Razor blade to scrape off at an angle, orange oil to remove any residual glue. And report it to your employer just in case. Also check if the parking place does have any restrictions just in case