My work charges $10/day for parking in the parking garage, which really adds up. We are supposed to pay this out of our own pockets. But I don’t pay.
I found a parking spot on the bottom floor of the garage that is all the way in the corner. It’s dark there and quite well hidden. Then I back my car into the spot, put it into neutral, and push it gently until it rests against the wall. So the wall completely blocks my rear plate. And I have no front plate. So the parking attendant, if they happen to walk all the way into that corner, cannot easily read my plate.
I see many of my coworkers complaining about the prices, or showing parking tickets they got because they forgot to pay that day. But so far I have not gotten a ticket.
Eventually I will get a ticket I think, and at that point I will not pay it and just start taking public transportation to work
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Fight the machine brother
Got to do what ya got to do
The dedication of putting it in neutral, getting out and pushing it against the wall – every day – is to be commended.
I pray for the longevity of your scam.
Having to pay for parking to work a job is crazy!!!
why does your work charge that? Them stupid?
nah cause this feels like the kinda victimless crime that deserves a standing ovation and a raise like if the lot’s there and the space is empty who’s really losing here besides capitalism
$10 a day is crazy
$10 a DAY?!?! I have worked in Manhattan for a decade+ and I could get cheaper parking through any office I worked at than that (obviously subsidized by the company). Hell, I worked at 261 madison and that was $150 a month – for Madison at 39th! I have zero issues with what you’re doing lol
Fuck the system. I used to park illegally at work too – then ride peoples asses on the way out.
I used to follow someone to get into the vip parking at work, the second parking was 5-10min walk. During winter especially because its an indoor parking.
Drove behind a car very close and be quick before the gate close 🤣
Paying to park at your job is wild…. Paying $10 a day is just gross…. $50 a week I would be pushing mine too man. Keep up the good fight!
i’ve never had a job in my life where they charged me for parking. in fact, most of them paid for bus passes if we didn’t use the free parking.
Damn… I pay $20 a day but I don’t drive in everyday of course… Only some days when I need to. It hurts real bad…
Please let us know how long you get away with this lol
That’s fucked up that they charge $10….. I hope it forever works in your favor!
I found a great way to save on airport parking at DFW. Many years ago we figured out it was possible to park at the on airport property hotel in their garage and when we returned we’d stop by the hotel to pick up our car and run into the front desk and ask for the ticket to be validated as the hotel offered complimentary parking and would set our parking ticket to $0 when exiting DFW at the toll gates. This arrangement worked extremely well for out friend group for a few years. The hotel changed policies when DFW began updating their parking and no more free parking for us.
Buddy of mine went 4 years at a major SoCal university without a parking pass or a ticket. Car cover everyday. Even he couldn’t believe it worked after he graduated.
My husband did something like this is college. He found a way to park up against a retaining wall where the parking enforcement couldn’t see his plate. He had a class with the window facing where his car was. The angle it was parked also made it impossible to get a tow truck, THEN one day the guy came with a mirror taped to pole and he managed to stick it between the car and wall & get his place. My husband literally watched him and to be honest wasn’t even mad. It was like well played my dude…
I applaud your ingenuity. May you ride this free ride for a looooong time to come.
This is some E4 Mafia level shit right here and I am here for it.
OP if you do ever get caught make another post and link this one for reference – and if you never get caught make a post that says you left this job and they never knew! We wanna hear how this turns out lol
My college had a paid parking garage. The problem is they would sell out of available spots so I could not buy one. Since there was never a time when everyone parked at the same time there were always empty spots. Normally the garage was 25% empty even overnight. There were no assigned spots so it’s not like I was taking a specific persons spot. I’d park my 4wd jeep in 4wd meaning a regular tow truck can’t tow it since all wheels are locked. They would need a flat bed which could not fit in the garage. I was never registered with the school so they had no idea who I was from the plate. I got a few tickets that I didn’t pay since they didn’t know who I was. We soon found out they only ticketed on Wednesdays. So on Wednesdays me or one of my roommates would request a free one day visitor pass from campus security. Sometimes we would do it Tuesday’s and say they were staying overnight to reduce suspicion. So every week my car would have a visitor pass on it for Wednesday. I then realized they almost never checked cars on the roof of the parking garage since almost no one parked up there. So pretty much free parking on to roof. Al I all I got like 6 tickets over 2 years and never paid any. Keep in mind I would have gladly paid for a spot if they would sell it to me lol.
That being said, I hate employers that charge their employees to park. It’s basically them giving you a lower salary. So fuck um. You might get fired if they find out though.
I on the other hand did the opposite . Got rewarded for parking . My previous job in the downtown area gave us parking permits for a paid lot . I didn’t own a car at the moment I had an acquaintance that worked in same building but different employer . Their employer didn’t offer free parking Every month I’d “lend” them my permit for a generous compensation and I used public transportation .
I’m surprised how many people don’t need to pay for parking at their workplaces.
I work downtown Toronto and have almost always needed to pay for parking. Very rare to have parking provided by a workplace.
Just how many cars are parked in this $10.00 a day garage?
Charging employees for parking is a huge scam!
My wife works for a university and all the faculty have to buy a parking pass every semester just like the students do. It’s something like $250 / semester.
The parking rate at my workplace is $5/week
hope they don’t boot your tire
Bet you work downtown in a mid-large city. Which is where it’s common practice for employees to pay for parking.
Well played. My dad worked the cost of parking into his salary. Wouldn’t take the job if they didn’t agree. His deck worked out to be something like $3400 a year or so.
What kind of low life business charges for parking?
What an AH of a company/business. Let me guess, the CEO/higher ups don’t have to pay for parking. 👀
Paying to park. To go to work. I hope you make a lot of money.
I have a pretty strict rule in life. If it requires payment to park. It is for suckers. I have yet to find anything that contradicts this.
That’s insane. Not what you are doing, the fact that your job doesn’t at minimum subsidize some of the parking. I say keep doing it. I am now wondering if your job is based in Los Angeles. I had this situation before as well but our company paid for most of the lot fee if I’m not mistaken. It possibly could have been all of it but I don’t remember with 100% certainty.
When I was in university, we used to buy one parking pass and then photocopy it at the printers on similar type of paper and share it amongst 4 to 6 students to keep the cost down
How are they gonna charge you to come to work, that’s absolutely fucked. I mean, the unmitigated gall!
Assuming you work 5 days a week, that’s $200 a month good grief! $200 just to be able to park and go into your work? That’s insane. And then your car payment, gas & insurance…… What the hell lol. That should be illegal.
Except of course that anyone can run the VIN and have all your information in 10 seconds
Your work charges you to park??? WTF, get a new job, leave them in spectacular fashion that reflects whatever job this is. They deserve a proper send off.
The scam here is charging you for parking. Do they own the lot? Sounds illegal.
This is a scam I can get behind.
I’ve worked on college campuses where parking was even more per month for employee. I always worked the system and never paid. Yes, I had a five minute longer walk, yes, it sucked when it rained but the 350 days of the year it wasn’t raining on my walk, I loved the extra thousands of dollars in my pocket. I commend you!
What kind of parking garage are you using that doesn’t have some kind of entry/exit gate system that requires a ticket?
I’ve done this before too! It’s a nice little rush sometimes.
Had a job downtown, as a 1st year apprentice making barely enough to get by and parking was an extra $75 per week… Wasn’t having it, so I found a spot where the guardrail was the same height as my licence plate and did the exact same thing. Put a little scratch in the bumper but that was worth saving $300/month in fees that we were never reimbursed.
There’s no way in hell I’m working somewhere that makes me pay for parking
Many years back, when I did security, I did parking enforcement for a bit. In a situation like this, a vehicle too close to the wall to read the plate, I would absolutely just move on. You can’t ticket without a plate, parking people aren’t wizards. The danger is a tow, but how can they tow for non payment if you’ve never been ticketed?
Godspeed you parking thief, I hope you get a lifetime of free parking.
My son worked in Subiaco (Western Australia) and the parking was $17 a day. He noticed that the local Hungry Jacks ( Burger King) had staff parking, where the staff put a photocopied sheet on the dashboard, so he made his own and parked every day.
He did this for months, copped the odd $50 fone here and there but was quids ahead.
As they say, up there’s for thinking.
You found the glitch, use it while it lasts mate
Bring a blanket and a pillow, sleep in the ceiling eat food that doesn’t have your name on it, live free my friend hhehehe
You have to get what you can get
I’d argue that whoever owns the garage is trying to steal from you, and at the very least, since your employer makes exponentially more off you than what you earn, they should pay it. Honestly, they should pay for your gas and vehicle maintenance and also pay more for whatever you do, but we don’t have to get into that.
I’ve been skating by just by using my girlfriend’s name to get underground protected parking access.
We also broke up years ago and she works 3 states away from me but still in the system.
this feels like that perfect mix of lazy genius and petty rebellion lol. u clearly thought it thru tho like the neutral roll against the wall?? wild. i get it tho $10/day just to park where u work is actually insane. u prob gon get caught eventually but i kinda admire how u already got a backup plan like “ok fine i’ll just dip n take the train.” honestly ur coworkers should be taking notes..
You must know Newman & Kramer.
This is a high-level NYC critical solution and hope your plate reads Assman,
this is like chaotic genius lmao but also risky af. u gotta know eventually someone’s gonna do a full sweep or they’ll add a camera and then boom u get hit w fines or worse. i get not wanting to pay $10/day tho that shit adds up fast. maybe start scoping out public transport now so it’s not a panic move when they catch u. or just keep pushin ur luck and see how long u last aha
Having to pay for parking at work is just total bullshit so I’m 100% on board with this.
For 4 years I didn’t pay for commuter parking at my university. At $50/semester, that saved me $400.
We had well over 200 visitor spaces that were only a quarter mile from the building 90% of my classes were located. Never got a ticket and nobody said anything.
What’s stopping everyone from parking rear end to the wall to hide their plate?
Never work for a company that charges for parking.
Would you work for a company that charges you for a desk?
It’s fucking company store levels of bullshit.
On the first day, before you’ve even walked into the office, you’ve paid them.
That level of disrespect tells you all you ever need to know about a company.
This is a flex not a confession. Go you!
If the guy gets your plates just once you’re done for, unless you change them up on him.
Charging for parking at the workplace only supports why folks want to work from home. This is not the way to make it more enticing.
When you get the ticket just put it on your windshield every day so it looks like you’ve already been ticketed
I can not understand paying to park at my job that would piss me off. Good for you dude haha
Why is your job charging you to park on their premises…
My office charges like $20/day for parking. I get my parking ticket validated at the gym in the building that I am not a member of. No one has called me out and I’ve been doing it for three years now.
In college I stole parking from a city lot for nearly a year. Each month they would change the color of the little paper placard they’d give you to hang from your rearview. My office had a whole array of colored paper for the copy machine. I’d take the one placard I had paid for and each month photocopy it using colored paper that best matched that months tag. Then I’d cut it out and hang it from my review. Probably saved close to $300 doing that and was never questioned.
Not providing free parking for employees is grounds for a labor strike.
This type of corporate behavior is entirely unacceptable.
i work at a university where they make us pay a yearly parking fee of $800. i found a little side street that is technically part of a paid parking zone, but for whatever reason the parking police don’t ticket me for parking there. i like to think the other people parking there also refuse to pay for parking, and the parking attendants recognize that street as the unofficial “i’m only a staff member i don’t get paid enough for this shit” zone.
This is the most American fucking post I’ve ever seen.
Your jobs parking garage, where employees have to park, is charging employees to park there.
How is this not illegal? Lmao.
Paying to park at your job is outrageous. I hope you never get caught my friend 🫡
You have to push it to get it that close to the wall? Who taught you to drive?
Back when my son was in college, they charged $350 for a yearly parking pass, you had to hang on your rearview mirror, we paid the first year, for the next three years he would park on the top floor of the parking garage and pull nose first into the parking spot, he figured that the underpaid security guard wouldn’t haul his ass all the way up there to check every single car and if he glanced through the back window at the mirror he would see something hanging and it worked! Saved me $1,050! University charges enough for tuition as it is!
I turned down a job that also made employees pay for parking. The real scam here isn’t OP, it’s the employer.
Your 𝘌𝘮𝘱𝘭𝘰𝘺𝘦𝘳 𝙘𝙝𝙖𝙧𝙜𝙚𝙨 you for parking in 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘪𝘳 available parking area? Complete bullshit. Keep doing what you’re doing. Encourage your coworkers to do the same.
Ludicrous that you get charged.
When someone suggests that I pay to go to work, I thank them for the offer and let them know that I exclusively work for pay.
I’ve always thought that having to pay to park at work is such a damn slap in the face
I would just leave work $10 early everyday.
Having to pay to park at work sounds like a special type of hell
When I left my old job they didn’t take access away from my parking key card until they changed parking garages. I had free parking in downtown New Orleans for just over a year. At Harrahs no less!