Could ‘technically’ be made redundant🙄

AliceBanned

An update - my employer paid for parking for staff - many have to drive in as there are limited public transport options from outside London to the outer boroughs. Today they have launched a consultation on parking charges - a flat rate and not cheap, for all staff to be taken by direct debit monthly, with no guarantee as there are more staff than spaces. Not sure of the legality of this! Paying in advance for non-guaranteed parking. Will ask my union. 

Also one directorate gets forced to work in office 3 days a week. Others can choose - not linked to the role - just one director’s choice. They trying to encourage us to want to leave perhaps. 

The financial situation is very bad but not being fully communicated yet. 

theoretica

AliceBanned said:

Paying in advance for non-guaranteed parking.

Sounds like the residents' parking zone permit in my area!

AliceBanned

theoretica said:

AliceBanned said:

Paying in advance for non-guaranteed parking.

Sounds like the residents' parking zone permit in my area!

😅. Such an insensitive way to treat employees - after announcing budget cuts and likely redundancies. 

lincroft1710

In Cambridge there was a  large complex of WW2 single storey ex MOD buildings housing several government departments, with acres of car parking. Around the year 2000, the buildings were demolished, most of the land sold off for housing and on the tiny bit retained, a new office block built which resulted in very cramped accommodation for the various departments housed therein and virtually the only on site parking was for visitors.


So don't expect much from a public sector employer, your experience is not untypical

Wily_coyote

This thread maybe appropriate to close as it started 2 years on redundancy issue and now talks about car park. Sorry for being pedantic but the OP may want to start a new thread since it is now totally off topic. Thanks

lincroft1710

Wily_coyote said:

This thread maybe appropriate to close as it started 2 years on redundancy issue and now talks about car park. Sorry for being pedantic but the OP may want to start a new thread since it is now totally off topic. Thanks

It was the OP who brought up the subject of car parking!!

AliceBanned

Wily_coyote said:

This thread maybe appropriate to close as it started 2 years on redundancy issue and now talks about car park. Sorry for being pedantic but the OP may want to start a new thread since it is now totally off topic. Thanks

Different redundancy issue, same employer, same topic of poor workplace culture and possible redundancy. Was looking for advice and support. The car park is related to the redundancy and culture issue and I like writing about it in that context rather than another thread. Besides it’s all the same story. 

Undervalued

theoretica said:

AliceBanned said:

Paying in advance for non-guaranteed parking.

Sounds like the residents' parking zone permit in my area!

The generally are, certainly in the city where I live.

To be fair to the Council they make this very clear when you apply for a permit, publishing the number of spaces and the maximum number of permits that will be sold, so that applicants can make an informed decision.

Re the OP's issue. Guaranteed parking is very seldom offered as part of an employment "package'. I think it if were it would be a taxable benefit. Some former colleagues of mine have just been relocated about ten miles into the city and are faced with the same problem. They had got used to plenty of free on and off site parking in the former village location but it was never a guaranteed part of their contract.

AliceBanned

Yes it was generous to have free and I always wondered whether it would end. It means staff will park in residential streets though - about 15 mins walk away. At £10 a day that’s what I will do. I know my team feels aggrieved because we are told to be in just to be seen and we haven’t quite accepted it😅. It’s a difficult issue still post pandemic as we got used to working from home which meant no traffic and parking problems. Personally I work better from home or at least prefer to have a choice to a greater degree. Also only our directorate has this mandate and it’s not job-related. If anything it’s obstructive as our work requires concentration and accuracy.

i sent an application for a job elsewhere yesterday as have decided I want to move on, for many reasons.