I dont know if this is the right place to put this query or rant. I work for a social services department which is in in block of offices. We are the only team in there and there are about 20 or so of us. The offices are fairly new and have other offices rented out within them and there doesnt appear to be enough parking for the number of workers in all the various offices. Behind the offices are some private housing.
I dont know the full ins and outs but we apparently in the rental contract for the offices have various parking spaces in the car park.
Over time, more and more cars get parked all abouts in the car park and some of our workers find themselves blocked in by others etc. Some of the staff seem to have complained about this but the main person upset seems to be the admin officer. She is quite a controlling person and said that she was going to get a parking company to manage the parking. I dont know if it is being done by the landlord or whether she has organised this herself.
She is quite an unpleasant person to deal with generally but today she became quite angry that I had not used my special parking permit rather than my usual parking note and she is often to be seen running around the office telling people they are going to get ticketed.
It annoys me that by default I now have to engage with these cowboy companies and almost give them some validity. I try to always inform people that these sort of companies have no authority and as an example at work, the signage has gone up to warn of parking charges and PCNs. But they cant issue PCNs can they? It also talks of any penalty being halved if paid within 14 days, that sort of thing. Is that legal?
I feel it goes against my principles of ignoring these sort of companies.