What is your car parking situations at work? And does it cause dramas?

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I witnessed a woman in my office today losing her shit because she arrived at our work car park at 8:30 and there were no spaces left. She had to park on a residentital street somewhere, which everyone hates doing as the residents get frothy about it and everyone’s worried about their cars getting damaged.

It got me thinking though that it’s the only place I’ve ever worked that’s ever offered even limited parking, it’s usually just for managers! So I can’t complain even if does mean early starts!

So I’m curious to know what everyone else’s work parking arrangements are and if it causes as much bother as it does here!

Staff can park their cars in a nearby pub car park we have an arrangement with the pub, we have to try really hard not to upset them as they won't let us park there anymore, there's plenty of spaces though always, as it isn't a busy pub.

Business park, enough for everyone, free. I've never worked anywhere that doesn't have enough parking for the staff.

Rubbish at our hospital. I'm still smarting from someone having a go at me last week saying I nicked her space when I never even noticed her waiting. Thing is she waited until she parked then found me to vent her spleen, when if she had just come straight over and said I was waiting first I'd have moved for her. I hope it made her feel better to say her piece but I genuinely never noticed her and she pretty much ruined my day

Last place of employment - building hugely oversubscribed, had to apply for parking permit on annual basis. If your face fitted you normally got one. But you'd still have to get there an hour early to be in with a chance of finding a space. If you didn't, you'd have to park a 15-20 min drive away and wait for shuttle bus. By the time you got to the office all the hot desk space had gone and you'd end up in the canteen or corridor. No idea how the office ever passed fire brigade safety inspections. Office was also on a double yellow line technology park, and isolated to other close by parking locations.

A US colleague - their office had onsite parking but only for staff who'd done 20+ years or were management. Otherwise they had a series of parking lots. New employees were furthest away and slowly moved up the ranks to get a space closer.

Office with workshop. Plenty of parking for office staff and work vans. Occasionally we have to block each other in but we are a small friendly company.

Only problem is when people visiting nearby businesses or the local college park on our private car park. So we block them in and watch on the cctv.

Head office: If you get there early enough you can park on the street. But you gotta remember to move to the other side of the street at 1 pm or you'll get a parking fine. If you don't get there early, you'd better go and look for a space on the side roads, or use the council pay-and-display.

(I live 5 minutes walk away, so only bothers me if I have stuff to transport.)

Branch: There's a car park. There's usually spaces and I've not heard of any drama. If it's full, go and find a road to park on.

(PS: It's not just us using the branch office car park, so blocking someone else in wouldn't be clever. Or possible usually. But there are a few not-actually-a-space spots you can get in if you need to and you've got a small car.

I work at a university. We have parking for now, it costs £4.30 a day, less for admin staff. But, I think our car park will soon be sold. This will be a big problem for me as I live about 90 minutes drive away.

I work in supported living on a residential street, I usually can park outside or on the drive of the two semi detached houses I work at but sometimes if your on a late shift you have to park 3 or 4 houses further down the street where you get a load of abuse from the neighbours for parking (legally) outside their homes, you then have to spend the day worrying one of them is going to damage your car 🙄

Not enough spaces at my place. First come first served. It is because the business has grown but there’s no extra space for extra cars.

Every single place I’ve ever worked has had car parking dramas.

Most places have more employees than spaces, it’s madness really.

We have more spaces than staff.

Same. Work built an extra car park to accomodate the extra staff several years ago. Before people would just double park, or park at the end of the row where there wasn't an actual space.

Examples of issues at various places I’ve worked:

Place 1 - public parking, you had to have a permit to use the parking, and everyone paid for themselves BUT you could not physically buy a ticket at the machine until 8.30am. So at 8.30am hundreds of people would start queuing to put money in the machine. Until 8.30 they would be sitting in their cars, having arrived at 8am as all the spaces were gone by 8.05am.

Place 2 - inaccessible by public transport. 2000 employees, 1000 spaces. Building almost empty after 4pm as everyone worked 7.30am - 3.30 or 4 as all spaces were gone by 7.45am.

Paid £5 a day in my last job- town centre location.

Current job is on an industrial estate with free parking for all staff. I am ridiculously grateful! People do have ‘their’ spaces though, and get grumpy when they have to use the overflow. I like that none of our directors have a reserved space- they’re in the ‘free for all’ like the rest of us.

My local office has around 200 spaces for 40 staff.

Every single other office in the organisation has limited or no parking. I used to get the train when I worked in the local city centre office.

It's difficult for disabled colleagues as the closest reasonable parking is a walk away. The organisation doesn't cover parking. If you park within a 10 minute walk from the office then the cost is extortionate.

I believe this is the situation in most of our offices. Other than a very small minority.

We have an ok amount of parking but some of it is block parking, so a 6 x 4 rectangle of spaces with copious amounts of signage telling you that you are parking in the 'block' parking. It is advised on the signs not to park there if you need to access your vehicle etc etc. You also have to display your contact details to park there. But every day without fail you get some knob head ringing you at 10am to move your car because they need to get out for a meeting or visit. Don't fucking park in the block parking then!!!!!

I had one woman get extremely shirty with me for blocking her in. I just pointed to the signs.

Spaces for those who drive for work (not enough though) then there is parking outside for £2.50 a day. I’m in the office so have to pay but had someone moaning yesterday they missed out on a space inside and had to walk 6 wholeeee minutes in (and can claim the money back by the way!)

For a short period I worked for an organisation that provided free parking permits in a local town centre multi storey car park. Like a previous poster, the permit was also valid at weekends so was quite useful for shopping trips.

When I left the organisation I handed it back and the person I gave it to was very surprised and said that most people kept them.

Other than that I always used public transport to get to work.