I worked this Saturday for a parade.
My job was to collect the parking fee from the people attending the parade and give them a ticket.
I was assigned to a parking garage managed by my employer. Another co-worker was also assigned to the same parking garage.
This particular parking garage as well as the other parking garages and one parking lot located in the area where I work are owned by a property management company. My employer has a contract with the property management company to manage the parking garages.
Several parking garages and the one parking lot were used for parking for the parade on Saturday.
Regarding the parking fee any event… the property management company determines the parking fee since they own the parking garages and the parking lot that are used for event parking.
The property management company decided to charge $20 for the parking fee.
Apparently one of the businesses located in the building next to the parking garage that I and one of my co-workers were assigned to on Saturday decided to use that garage for parking for people participating in a 10k race and a 5k walk/run. That business sponsored the race, walk/run.
The problem?
The people participating in the race or in the walk/run were given flyers from the business sponsoring the race, walk/run stating that the parking fee for this particular garage was $10.
My employer can only go by what the property management company tells them.
So cue the many complaints regarding the $20 parking fee.
The MOD for my employer had to deal with the complaints from these participants. He told the people complaining that the property management company owns the parking garages as well as the parking lot and that they determine the parking fee. From what I heard, this happened at all of the parking lots used for parking for the parade as well as the parking lot.
According to the MOD the property management company will not allow any MOD to change the parking fee in a situation like this.
When I got home from work yesterday, I looked up on the internet information about this particular race, walk/run. I found a link to the company’s website regarding the race, walk/run. No – where on the company’s website did it state that the parking fee for the race, walk/run was $10 at any of the parking garages located in the area of parking garages owned by the property management company nor the parking lot.
My job was to collect the parking fee from the people attending the parade and give them a ticket.
I was assigned to a parking garage managed by my employer. Another co-worker was also assigned to the same parking garage.
This particular parking garage as well as the other parking garages and one parking lot located in the area where I work are owned by a property management company. My employer has a contract with the property management company to manage the parking garages.
Several parking garages and the one parking lot were used for parking for the parade on Saturday.
Regarding the parking fee any event… the property management company determines the parking fee since they own the parking garages and the parking lot that are used for event parking.
The property management company decided to charge $20 for the parking fee.
Apparently one of the businesses located in the building next to the parking garage that I and one of my co-workers were assigned to on Saturday decided to use that garage for parking for people participating in a 10k race and a 5k walk/run. That business sponsored the race, walk/run.
The problem?
The people participating in the race or in the walk/run were given flyers from the business sponsoring the race, walk/run stating that the parking fee for this particular garage was $10.
My employer can only go by what the property management company tells them.
So cue the many complaints regarding the $20 parking fee.
The MOD for my employer had to deal with the complaints from these participants. He told the people complaining that the property management company owns the parking garages as well as the parking lot and that they determine the parking fee. From what I heard, this happened at all of the parking lots used for parking for the parade as well as the parking lot.
According to the MOD the property management company will not allow any MOD to change the parking fee in a situation like this.
When I got home from work yesterday, I looked up on the internet information about this particular race, walk/run. I found a link to the company’s website regarding the race, walk/run. No – where on the company’s website did it state that the parking fee for the race, walk/run was $10 at any of the parking garages located in the area of parking garages owned by the property management company nor the parking lot.
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