Parking Attendant ??

LincolnshireYokel

McKneff wrote: »

I think youre all being unfair, he does what the boss tells him to do, he's out in all hours and weather earning a living, how many of you are sat on your !!!!!!, on benefits, smoking, drinking, typing on here making snide cowardly remarks.

I sit on my ars* drawing my hard earned company pension, tending my allotment and baiting thieving PPC's. I dont smoke and i dont drink.

So, your random sterotyping was a bit off there, never mind.

ffacoffipawb

esmerobbo wrote: »

They have a 2 page training manual given to all new recruits. First page instructions on putting the high visibility vest on, second page taking it off!

Wrong, it's 3 pages. The third page has child !!!!!! on it.

Kite2010

Doesn't the training manual also have an idiots guide into what a number plate looks like and the importance of writing it down correctly.

How to confuse a PPC-monkey, have some dummy plates made up and put in the front & rear window on display.

Half_way

Ich wrote: »

So after the passage of the Olympic torch this afternoon our local Morrison's car park was in chaos!
So many cars stuck getting out that those wanting to go in couldn't!

I mentioned it to Customer Service who assured me that there was a parking attendant and it was his job to sort the car park out.

So bought what I needed and went out to the car, 30 minutes later I got out of the car park!

The car park attendant, well yes he was there with his CP Plus badged jacket, with "Car Park" written on the back (is his back the car park?) wandering round looking all lost and confused but not making any attempt to help.

I have been involved with and taken an active role in car park management at several events in the past working with a diverse range of people, with a few PPC bods and real traffic warden /CEO types in the mix- Ive been one of those bods with a two way radio and a hi vis jacket.
the type of car parking that i have been invovled with has been usualy in a feild for an event, and on the rare ocaison an empty tarmac car park, this has been done voluntarily, with money raised from car parking going towards local charity, money was raised by a gate fee ( ie pay £1/£2 to park ) or via a donation from the event organisers.

Based on my own expeirience there is no way on this earth that you can effectivly manage a car park safely and effeciently with just one memeber of staff - that i unless that memeber if staffs purpose is for revenue generation.

The last time i comunicated with one of those PPC people was in a city centre, outside a pay and display car park, he was fixing a "Parking charge" yellow envelope onto a foreign registered car, the conversation ewent something like this...
PPC bod was obstructing the footpath - i had some spare time)
Me: Good luck with that one its registered abroad
PPC: i can still fine him ( gets out his yellow envelope thing and starts writing on a slip)
Me: are you the police, or a council apointed civil enforcement officer?
PPC: no i work for PPC company X, and we fine people who park wrong ( points at car tyres slightly over white line)
Me: well if your nto the police, or a CEO, or a traffic warden you cant issue fines, or penaltys
PPC : yes we can - ive got a licence from management to issue fines
Me: but there completly unenforcable and have no legal backing
PPC: well if thats the case then i would be wasting my time
Me: quite true, maybe you would be better off sitting in your hut, or a van.
PPC : look ive got a licence and if people dont pay up they could get reposessed
Me; ( realising things are going no where) ok, but your slips are un enforcable - have you thought about sitting in your hut all day?

Kite2010

Good luck with that PPC trying to track down the owner of that car, even some councils just bin any parking tickets relating to foreign registered cars.

People could get repossessed don't you know, and get sent to debtors prison (and also pigs could fly and that every footballer will suddenly decide to pay tax at the correct rate in this country)