PPC omnishambles

Plushchris

HardWorker2010 wrote: »

Picture on TCP website.


Wouldn't it be funny if:

He's smiling because he's pinching her shopping in lieu of the 100's of unpaid fake PCN tickets he's issued over to her the past few months. It's lost his company £100's and he's not happy about it.

She's smiling because the bag contains nothing but some out of date yogurts and reams of ignored threatograms.(All used as hamster bedding, or worse, beforehand).

That pic is worthy of a caption competition!

SodG24

Plushchris wrote: »

That pic is worthy of a caption competition!

Him - "I patrol this car park for your safety madam"

Her - "That's funny because you'll be out of a job come 1st October !"

Plushchris

I like to think hes actually putting the shopping back into her trolley because she cant move her car as he has clamped it.

She is smiling because she knows there is an angle grinder and pair of bolt croppers in the back of the car...

Half_way

From the linked article...
http://www.smh.com.au/business/car-parking-group-in-uk-damage-control-20120830-252f9.html

But the group said it had improved its UK operations in the past six months by paying off bank debt and reviewing positions. More than 30 staff had been made redundant and staff now fill in time sheets. A new system lets the company see which car parks are profitable

( my bold) As far as im aware most of their activity takes place in Asda car parks and these car parks are almost always free.

Stephen_Leak

HardWorker2010 wrote: »

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She doesn't realise that she's been parked for 1 hour 57 minutes and hasn't seen what's already on the windsceen.

bazster

Half_way wrote: »

( my bold) As far as im aware most of their activity takes place in Asda car parks and these car parks are almost always free.

Indeed. How can it be profitable if their charges are a true representation of their losses?

Stephen_Leak

HardWorker2010 wrote: »

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"I would just like to state that it is not the job of a parking attendant to advise people on parking. He is there to enforce ..." Miss Rachel Coates, VCS legal representative, S!!!!horpe County Court, 16 May 2012.

HO87

These companies do not exist to enforce decency and good behaviour out of some altruistic sense of duty they are commercial enterprises people and car parks must be profitable.

Therefore "profit" = "parking charge invoices"

and

"more profit" = "more parking charge invoices"

As the Judge King observed during the First Tier Tribunal case involving VCS:

Most of the income of VCS comes from motorists who pay VCS money following a parking ticket being applied to their vehicle.

ManxRed

HardWorker2010 wrote: »

I see you've largely bought the Smart Price items. In that case I'll need ALL of these bags in lieu of your outstanding debts rather than just this one.

Have a nice day madam.

JagDriver

Whilst the other simian operator attaches the impossible to remove sticky envelope to the front of the car, the decoy automaton distracts the drug crazed shopper to ensure that they go over the 30 minutes allowed parking time ...