AIBU to ask work to cough up?

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I started a new job last week. I had to go for an induction, i was told the induction would last 3 hours, so i parked somewhere that you get 3 hours free parking. The induction actually ended up lasting over 4 hours, this morning i recieced a letter with a £70 parking fine

Should i bring this up with my boss or just pay it (and seethe about it to myself)

Seethe to yourself!

Surely you didn't expect the thing to run for 3 hours exactly? What about walking time, question and answers, form filling, getting to know people?

They'll thing you're mad if you try to get them to pay.

Could you not have asked to nip out and increase your parking time?

I would think you will just need to suck it up and pay. If your induction was going to last three hours you would have needed more than three hours parking....unless the induction was actually in the car park.

It's up to you to ensure you have paid sufficient parking, I doubt you would get off to a very good start if you asked for £70 to cover a fine.

If you knew it was lasting 3 hours you were cutting it very fine anyway with 3 hours free parking, surely everyone knows things never go to the exact times given

You'd be very unreasonable to ask work to pay for it, I think they'd laugh at you

When it got to 2 hours 55 minutes, did you ask if you could go and repark ? If so, were you told you couldn't ?

If yes, and yes, then I would say fair cop - work should pay.

Otherwise, I suspect the majority view will be that you are responsible for your car parking.

What happened to make the induction take 33% longer than usual ?

YABU - it is not your work's responsibility to sort your parking fines. You were cutting it very fine to arrange a 3 hour parking slot for a 3 hour meeting in the first place. However, if at 2hrs 45min you'd queried how long things were going to take and moved your car as necessary, tat would not have been unreasonable.

YABU the course was 3 hours long....how did you expect to get back to your car and move it when the parking was free for that amount of time?

YABU, these things never run to time.

Oh god, please don't ask! YABU

Unless they held you hostage for the last hour and ten minutes then it's your fault and your fine.

What happened to make the induction take 33% longer than usual ?

It was given by a new person who has only just started doing inductions so took longer.

There was nowhere else to park, one of the other girls was told it would only take 2.5 hours! I just kept thinking "must be nearly done now"

Is it one of those 'Parking Eye' letters? If so, there are multiple threads on MSE and here about how to deal with them and not pay them.
But when it became apparent that your induction was going to take more than 3 hours, didn't you ask if you could sort out the extended parking?
You can't ask work to pay for it though...

Is it one of those 'Parking Eye' letters? If so, there are multiple threads on MSE and here about how to deal with them and not pay them.

Parking Eye recently won a court case which means you cannot automatically ignore them - a motorist was required to pay the charge (not fine) by the court.

If it doesn't go to appeal (and it's not looking likely) then the precedent that the charges may have to be paid will stand, and Parking Eye will be able to chase payments through the courts.

No its not parking eye. Doesn't matter, if i pay tomorrow its only £40, luckily I'm now on weekly pay and not monthly or i would have been fucked

Is there an option to appeal/explain the circumstances?

If they are a private company you could pay them the cost of one hour's parking plus £10 for their time and costs in full and final settlement? They are unlikely to get more than that if they pursued you through the courts.

It just says on the letter that my license plate was photographed entering at X time (photo attached) and leaving at X time (another photo) and that the maximum stay was 180 minutes and i exeeded that stay by however many minutes.

The only 'opt out' is if i am a lease company and can prove my car wa leased to another person that day.

Don't think i have a leg to stand on

Yes but I'm fairly sure that legally they are not allowed to issue a penalty, only for compensation for their loss and any costs incurred.

Yabu, you barely even started and now presenting issues.

Yabu. Why didnt you just ask at 2 hours 45 mins if you could just pop out to sort your parking out. Parking is your problem not your work!

Was the parking related in any way to the place the induction was at? If it was it's worth contacting them as they could get it cancelled.

If it's a private company then you don't have to pay it at all, as they don't have the powers to "fine" you, only the courts can do that; if it's from a private company, then it's just an invoice and you can just ignore it. They'll send you a few letters and then they'll give up.

WARNING!!! This only applies if it's from a private company. So who's it from? ^^

OnIlkely as Lurkinghusband posted further up the thread the common law has changed due to a recent court case.

If it's a private company then you don't have to pay it at all, as they don't have the powers to "fine" you, only the courts can do that; if it's from a private company, then it's just an invoice and you can just ignore it. They'll send you a few letters and then they'll give up

Spectacularly bad advice, given the recent court ruling I mentioned. If the invoice can be demonstrated to be a reasonable reflection of the costs incurred, then it's valid and the motorist has to pay. Confirmed by the High Court last month.

So just ignoring letters can now land you in court and losing.

Notice one "if" and one "may".

It was a supermarket car park, the induction was at a place over the road and it was the only place i could find to park (i don't know that town very well)