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Yesterday several parking spots in the Visitor Parking garage were reserved. I work as a parking attendant (inside a booth) at a university located in the city where I live. The parking company I work for has a contract with the university. The Visitor Parking assistant working at Visitor Parking/Community Relations makes the event list which I pick up at dispatch every morning before going to the booth.
The director of Visitor Parking/Community Relations decided to keep the open sign on when the only available spots in the garage were the ones for the guests attending the events. According to her when anyone not on the event list wants to park, I have to warn them that if they do enter the garage they will be ticketed by campus police. A customer who was warned several times that he will be ticketed by campus police but decided to park in the garage anyway was ticketed. The person (a female) who was with him asked me why he was ticketed (this was after he exited the garage). I explained why. She looked at me confused. I ended up giving her the office number where the Visitor Parking Community Relations director works.
She decided to have to open sign changed to full after this happened. Why she did not decide to change the open sign to full at the point when there were only enough parking spaces for everyone attending the events I do not know.
According to her, I cannot turn away anyone either 1) going to the President's office or 2) anyone working in the President's office. There are some employees working in the President's office who park in the garage on a weekly basis. They are supposed to park in spots since there are 6 of them. When the first employee arrived, I asked her if she could park in one of the President's spots since the open sign was on at one point when the garage was reserved, but someone not attending to reserved events parked in the garage, & now I am short a space. She said she would do that. I also explained this to the next President's office employee.
I got to work today, & I had to reserve 26 spaces leaving only 29 non-reserved spaces since the garage only has 55 "regular" spaces. At one point the open sign changed to full, but according to the director of Visitor Parking/Community Relations, she did not authorize that. I do not know if campus police did that or if the President's office did that, but I was happy becuase there were only a handful of non-reserved spaces at that point. I found this out after she called me to ask if the garage was full. I told her the open sign changed to full. She said "no, is the garage reserved or are there non-reserved spaces available?" I told her there were some non-reserved spaces available, but I had not let anyone else in since she already told me not to when the full sign was on. She told me she did not authorize that & that she did not know who did.
Yesterday several parking spots in the Visitor Parking garage were reserved. I work as a parking attendant (inside a booth) at a university located in the city where I live. The parking company I work for has a contract with the university. The Visitor Parking assistant working at Visitor Parking/Community Relations makes the event list which I pick up at dispatch every morning before going to the booth.
The director of Visitor Parking/Community Relations decided to keep the open sign on when the only available spots in the garage were the ones for the guests attending the events. According to her when anyone not on the event list wants to park, I have to warn them that if they do enter the garage they will be ticketed by campus police. A customer who was warned several times that he will be ticketed by campus police but decided to park in the garage anyway was ticketed. The person (a female) who was with him asked me why he was ticketed (this was after he exited the garage). I explained why. She looked at me confused. I ended up giving her the office number where the Visitor Parking Community Relations director works.
She decided to have to open sign changed to full after this happened. Why she did not decide to change the open sign to full at the point when there were only enough parking spaces for everyone attending the events I do not know.
According to her, I cannot turn away anyone either 1) going to the President's office or 2) anyone working in the President's office. There are some employees working in the President's office who park in the garage on a weekly basis. They are supposed to park in spots since there are 6 of them. When the first employee arrived, I asked her if she could park in one of the President's spots since the open sign was on at one point when the garage was reserved, but someone not attending to reserved events parked in the garage, & now I am short a space. She said she would do that. I also explained this to the next President's office employee.
I got to work today, & I had to reserve 26 spaces leaving only 29 non-reserved spaces since the garage only has 55 "regular" spaces. At one point the open sign changed to full, but according to the director of Visitor Parking/Community Relations, she did not authorize that. I do not know if campus police did that or if the President's office did that, but I was happy becuase there were only a handful of non-reserved spaces at that point. I found this out after she called me to ask if the garage was full. I told her the open sign changed to full. She said "no, is the garage reserved or are there non-reserved spaces available?" I told her there were some non-reserved spaces available, but I had not let anyone else in since she already told me not to when the full sign was on. She told me she did not authorize that & that she did not know who did.