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Equitable Structure for Employee Parking. Wow.
Also, if you’re employer charges you to park, you have a shitty employer.
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April 19th, 2016 at 7:25 pm
“If your employer charges you to park, you have a shitty employer.”
Or you might live in any of the top 10 or 15 Urban areas where parking is insanely expensive. When I lived in Honolulu, employees were charged for parking passes, but would be given free bus passes if they did not take parking. The waiting list for spaces in the parking lot was about seven years long. Sometimes, there’s just no room for cars.
The whole concept of “Equitable parking” seems a little odd though. our setup was that parking cost more or less depending on which parking pass you bought. Inside parking garage with assigned spaces, most expensive. Outside, unassigned parking, no shade, least expensive. But then, that was just my experience.
April 19th, 2016 at 7:30 pm
At UT, the university owns the parking facilities.
April 19th, 2016 at 9:27 pm
At NCSU, the university owns the parking facilities.
They still charge employees for the privilege of using them.
From what I understand, it’s a wholly-approved laundering scheme to change the “color” of funds at the institution.
April 20th, 2016 at 10:16 am
It’s pretty standard for universities to charge employees for parking passes. I also find the idea offensive, but they do it.
April 20th, 2016 at 11:22 am
My company in Seattle simply doesn’t have enough parking. They do charge for it, or, if you don’t use a parking spot on site, give you a stipend. Presumably the stipend is for mass transit or ride sharing purposes, but it is also for offsite parking. At the same time, they have a ‘no guns on the property’ policy, not even in your car.
I park four blocks away in an secured, attended, covered parking facility, which has the benefit of not being on company property so I can leave my personal protection tools in it. And I take that stipend.
April 20th, 2016 at 12:43 pm
Parking is a racket no matter who does it, government or employer.
April 20th, 2016 at 4:51 pm
Universities tend to charge for parking, but the sliding scale seems new. When I worked at the U locally when my kids were little, the on campus daycare used a sliding tuition scale, so I always said I was paying for my kid and 2.5 grad students kids to go to daycare.
Was really good pre-K though and was convenient, so we paid what we were told.
Now that I work from home and my car doesn’t leave the driveway 4 days out of 7, looking back it seems insane how much of my pay went to parking and how much gas I burned up driving around campus to find a spot.
April 20th, 2016 at 8:33 pm
Monetization of faculty is annoying. Think of profs as sharecroppers and you’ll understand how the university thinks of them. As long as they produce more than they cost, they can stay and work.
Monetization of students (student fees, parking garages, luxury dorms, gymnasiums, pools, rock walls, restaurants, and so on) is as old as the hills. Think of students as walking wallets to be emptied and you’ll understand how the university thinks of them. As long as they pay, or someone pays for them, they can stay and work.
April 20th, 2016 at 9:54 pm
I’m afraid you can’t blame the employer for this one . They charge for parking for the same reason they now charge you $15 in the cafeteria for the same meal that used to cost $7 . Fed-guv considers on-site meals , parking and a slew of other items to be taxable benefits if they are substantially less expensive than the prevailing local rate for the same thing .
April 21st, 2016 at 4:32 pm
Someone has to pay for the construction, maintenance, snow removal, security etc of the parking lots. Seems fair that the drivers should do it. I thought only Bernie Sanders was in favor of “free stuff”.