You opinion on and the legality of being charged for parking at work.

[Electric]

There was a leaking pipe in the basement which was ignored until the morning we came in and the place was FLOODED to hell and gone.

The roof at our previous employer had a leak that they were well aware of.
I came in in the morning and it had basically rained all over my monitor which blew as a result.
My boss got a hairdryer from the hairdresser a few buildings down and told me to dry the internal parts, they were already green from the corrosion.

 

[MartyMarts]

One of the companies I was based at seemed to be hoarding old CRT monitors. I just assumed they had upgraded all their old screens and "forgot" to get rid of the old CRTs or something. Until one day when the 17" CRT monitor they had kindly lend me to use as a secondary monitor popped. I was instructed to go find a working one in the pile of dusty monitors and leave the one I was using (that stopped working) there for future use :wtf:

 

[I.am.Sam]

Really?

:wtf:

normal paid parking in the CBD is +-R800 per month

why do they even bother with R30 per month

 

[MartyMarts]

Maybe the R30 per month is just to maintain/run the parking? i.e. not for profit. Then again, if you have parking for a couple hundred cars at R30 each per month then it's not really small change anymore.

EDIT: Now imagine the folks charging ~R800 per month for parking. . . Beeeg money there

 

[I.am.Sam]

i used to pay R15 a day ..company paid other 50%

and yeah R30 is probably for security or something ..cause thats just a waste of paperwork

cause most people park for free under the N2 bridge

 

[Drifter]

Maybe the R30 per month is just to maintain/run the parking? i.e. not for profit. Then again, if you have parking for a couple hundred cars at R30 each per month then it's not really small change anymore.

EDIT: Now imagine the folks charging ~R800 per month for parking. . . Beeeg money there

I wish, like I posted earlier, R910 a month.

 

[Ancalagon]

If you think about it, it sort of makes sense.

A company has to spend money on you, in order for you to work. They have to pay for your laptop, for your phone, for everything. Now imagine if there are two employees, A and B. Both do the same work, but A rides a bicycle to work, while B drives. The company thus has to spend more on B to employ him than it does on A. You could almost see it as getting more money from the company if they dont have to pay for your parking.

That is the devils advocate talking. If I worked for a company where 99% of employees had cars and needed to drive, and they wanted to charge me parking, I'd find somewhere else to work.

 

[member2204]

There's probably 250-300 bays so they're not making that much by charging R30pm. A lot of people that don't have bays park under the N2 bridge; the walk to the building takes them 20-30 minutes.

 

[MartyMarts]

I wish, like I posted earlier, R910 a month.

R910 to park in your own company's parkade... How many parkings are there in total? Your company could be making some sweet money off their own employees.

There's probably 250-300 bays so they're not making that much by charging R30pm. A lot of people that don't have bays park under the N2 bridge; the walk to the building takes them 20-30 minutes.

Well 250 bays = R7500 and 300 bays = R9000. Yes, not much but maybe enough maintenance etc.

 

[Sonic2k]

This is why people are moving to contracting/consulting and don't want to be employees of companies anymore

 

[JStrike]

That doesn't reduce the level of dickishness involved.

Sure. Doesn't make it illegal though

 

[JStrike]

By the same token, they want you to be in the office. If you do not feel like paying for parking and working from home, then it is up to you...

Nope. Where you work is up to your employer, not you.

 

[Drifter]

R910 to park in your own company's parkade... How many parkings are there in total? Your company could be making some sweet money off their own employees.

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Just in that parkade about 700 - 800,then another 1200 - 1500 in the main building and another 600 odd in an adjacent building thay also own. About 600 in main building are reserved for management who dont pay.

 

[hellfire]

Standard Bank in town (Simmonds Street) used to do this.
Manager level and up got parking paid for by the bank as a 'perk', but the plebs paid.

 

[I.am.Sam]

Standard Bank in town (Simmonds Street) used to do this.
Manager level and up got parking paid for by the bank as a 'perk', but the plebs paid.

but its so close to walk from under the n2

 

[MartyMarts]

Just in that parkade about 700 - 800,then another 1200 - 1500 in the main building and another 600 odd in an adjacent building thay also own. About 600 in main building are reserved for management who dont pay.

At R910 per car that's between R637 000 and R728 000 a month :wtf:

There is money to be made here boys and girls. Buy a dilapidated old building in the CBD and turn it into parking.

 

[Electric]

Sure. Doesn't make it illegal though

For sure, I never said it was illegal.

 

[hellfire]

At R910 per car that's between R637 000 and R728 000 a month :wtf:

There is money to be made here boys and girls. Buy a dilapidated old building in the CBD and turn it into parking.

800 bays is a lot. it would cost you megabucks to convert an old building into a parkade this size.

 

[Nerfherder]

You opinion on and the legality of being charged for parking at work.

I mean... what if there is no other parking and now all of a sudden its being charged for.

Thoughts?
How much are you paying?

It sucks but its a good way to incentivise car pooling and ride sharing. Car parks are a mission to maintain and its an actual cost to the company.

I worked at Superblock in JHB CBD, as contractors there was no actual parking we could use. It was hard enough to get parking for the 1200 full time employees they had.
We ended up renting from warehouses in the area, my company gave us an allowance.

Just before I left SB bought up an entire block of buildings that included most of the parking lots that we rented from. I ended up parking on the street for a few months.
Its been almost 3 years and I believe they still have not developed the lots, they just evicted the tenants and boarded it all up.

So basically in the big corporate world... f-you, walk to work because we don't want you parking here.

 

[JStrike]

For sure, I never said it was illegal.

The question posed in the topic was whether or not it was illegal. My response was in that context