There is a charging station inside one of the parking garages I am responsible for maintaining Monday through Friday for hybrid cars. The property management company that owns that parking garage as well as the other parking garage I work at came up with the idea of having a charging station for hybrid cars in their parking garages. There is a big sign on one of the support beams on the first level stating car charging station, and the equipment to charge the car is attached to the support beam. There is a parking spot in front of the support beam.
This past Tuesday I was working in that garage a car entered the garage. The customer, a male, saw me, and he temporarily parked his car near where I was working. He got out of his car and walked up to me. Here is what happened.
male customer: "Why is there a car parked at the charging station?"
He points to a pickup truck parked in the parking spot at the charging station. The pickup truck is not being charged & so obviously it is not a hybrid car.
me: "I do not know why."
male customer: "Well... you should enforce that. I need to park there." *but... his car was not hybrid*
He gets back into his car.
There are call boxes on the first level of the parking gargages I work in, & so I motioned for him to drive up to the call box. I press the call button on the call box for him to speak to someone about his complaint. The parking company I work for has employees working inside the parking garage offices. The phone call goes to one of those offices.
Later on that day I asked someone at the garage office where I clock out for my lunch about what a car charging station is used for. That person explained to me what they are used for, and I told her about the customer who wanted me to enforce the *no parking in the parking spot where the charging equipment is*. She told me that the customers who park at that garage are a bunch of cry babies because they 1) call that office when there are no empty spots in the parking garage *however, there is parking on the roof, which is rarely used*, 2) call the office when the spot they normally park in *which is not a reserved spot; it is an unreserved spot; the reserved spots are numbered* has a car already parked in it, and so on.
Then when I got to the garage the next morning I noticed the same car was parked in the parking spot where the car charging station is. It was also there the following morning.
This past Friday that car was not parked in the garage, but later on that morning another car, which was not a hybrid car because it was not hooked up to the charging equipment, was parked in the parking spot where the car charging station is.
The parking company I work for manages the parking garages meaning that the company makes sure that the garages a cleaned and maintained and that the entrance gate and exit gate equipment is working properly. It is up to the property management company to do something about cars parking in the car charging station parking spot since that was their idea to have them.
This past Tuesday I was working in that garage a car entered the garage. The customer, a male, saw me, and he temporarily parked his car near where I was working. He got out of his car and walked up to me. Here is what happened.
male customer: "Why is there a car parked at the charging station?"
He points to a pickup truck parked in the parking spot at the charging station. The pickup truck is not being charged & so obviously it is not a hybrid car.
me: "I do not know why."
male customer: "Well... you should enforce that. I need to park there." *but... his car was not hybrid*
He gets back into his car.
There are call boxes on the first level of the parking gargages I work in, & so I motioned for him to drive up to the call box. I press the call button on the call box for him to speak to someone about his complaint. The parking company I work for has employees working inside the parking garage offices. The phone call goes to one of those offices.
Later on that day I asked someone at the garage office where I clock out for my lunch about what a car charging station is used for. That person explained to me what they are used for, and I told her about the customer who wanted me to enforce the *no parking in the parking spot where the charging equipment is*. She told me that the customers who park at that garage are a bunch of cry babies because they 1) call that office when there are no empty spots in the parking garage *however, there is parking on the roof, which is rarely used*, 2) call the office when the spot they normally park in *which is not a reserved spot; it is an unreserved spot; the reserved spots are numbered* has a car already parked in it, and so on.
Then when I got to the garage the next morning I noticed the same car was parked in the parking spot where the car charging station is. It was also there the following morning.
This past Friday that car was not parked in the garage, but later on that morning another car, which was not a hybrid car because it was not hooked up to the charging equipment, was parked in the parking spot where the car charging station is.
The parking company I work for manages the parking garages meaning that the company makes sure that the garages a cleaned and maintained and that the entrance gate and exit gate equipment is working properly. It is up to the property management company to do something about cars parking in the car charging station parking spot since that was their idea to have them.
Comment