Employee Off Site Parking Rights

Uncertain

Gilbert2 wrote: »

I refer to the 3 classic professions, the law, medicine & clergy.

A famous judge once said that, as far as he was concerned, there were only two professions.

One was the law and everybody knows what the other one is as it is by far the oldest.

I imagine you are well acquainted!

Pete111

Thank goodness...I was getting rather tired trying to hold back the tide of bat sh*t crazy on my own.

... Over to you guys!

zzzLazyDaisy

Nah, not me, I'm out!

Uncertain

zzzLazyDaisy wrote: »

It's not often I am speechless....... ;););)

I couldn't agree more.

Ignorance and arrogance mixed together in equal quantities make something really special!

Uncertain

zzzLazyDaisy wrote: »

Nah, not me, I'm out!

I'll join you!

Pete111

That's three of us then

(Best of British OP!)

jimjames

Wow, thanks for all the replies, this has really taken off more than I expected!

yvonne13 wrote: »

Have your colleagues looked into "rent a parking space"? Some residence maybe willing to rent out space on their private drive if there also at work.

That is a very good point, the potential issue is that if the resident is out at work then it is of no consequence to them whether the road outside has a car parked on it between 9-5 anyway. My house is near a school and at 0845 and 1500 every space is taken with parents collecting kids. Makes no odds to me 99% of the time as I'm at work.

The council haven't been involved to the best of my knowledge but a local councillor had made representations to the company on behalf of residents.

getmore4less

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proffesional

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chartered_(professional)


In any walk of life there is a tendancy for those that aquire skills to try and protect their patch.

"proffesionals" use the closed shops like chartered status and some even get it into legislation so only those in the club can practice in certain capacities.

Guilds were used going back centuries

THe guild structure still exists in a form in the UK, mainly engineering type proffesions
extract from the wiki page.
In the City of London, the ancient guilds survive as Livery Companies, most of which play a ceremonial role. Guilds also survive in the UK in Preston, Lancashire, as the Preston Guild Merchant where among other celebrations descendants of Burgesses are still admitted into membership. In 1878 the London Livery companies established the City and Guilds of London Institute the forerunner of the engineering school (still called City and Guilds college) at Imperial College London. The aim of the City and Guilds of London Institute was the Advancement of Technical Education. Today City and Guilds is an examining and accreditation body for vocational, managerial and engineering qualifications from entry level craft and trade skills up to post doctoral achievement

In more modern times trade unions operated trades within closed shops.


lets face it just about anything can be considered a proffession if you get paid, even running a business if you can do it profitably, it only take training and/or experience and for some the ability to jump though the barriers to join the protected clubs.

dizzyrascal

getmore4less wrote: »

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proffesional

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chartered_(professional)


In any walk of life there is a tendancy for those that aquire skills to try and protect their patch.

"proffesionals" use the closed shops like chartered status and some even get it into legislation so only those in the club can practice in certain capacities.

Guilds were used going back centuries

THe guild structure still exists in a form in the UK, mainly engineering type proffesions
extract from the wiki page.
In the City of London, the ancient guilds survive as Livery Companies, most of which play a ceremonial role. Guilds also survive in the UK in Preston, Lancashire, as the Preston Guild Merchant where among other celebrations descendants of Burgesses are still admitted into membership. In 1878 the London Livery companies established the City and Guilds of London Institute the forerunner of the engineering school (still called City and Guilds college) at Imperial College London. The aim of the City and Guilds of London Institute was the Advancement of Technical Education. Today City and Guilds is an examining and accreditation body for vocational, managerial and engineering qualifications from entry level craft and trade skills up to post doctoral achievement

In more modern times trade unions operated trades within closed shops.


lets face it just about anything can be considered a proffession if you get paid, even running a business if you can do it profitably, it only take training and/or experience and for some the ability to jump though the barriers to join the protected clubs.

Usually getting into a Profession (that's one with just the single f anyway), especially one that has Chartered Status, takes a considerable amount of effort, with a fair number of exams to take together with time served/experience.
I wouldn't describe it as easy and I don't think that everything can be considered a profession either.
But that's just me.

getmore4less

dizzyrascal wrote: »

Usually getting into a Profession (that's one with just the single f anyway), especially one that has Chartered Status, takes a considerable amount of effort, with a fair number of exams to take together with time served/experience.
I wouldn't describe it as easy and I don't think that everything can be considered a profession either.
But that's just me.

wiki agrees
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Profession