Glasgow Council Save Money!

I heard a very interesting story a few months ago from a guy who works for Glasgow City Council.

There are some offices in the city centre and they have their own off street parking. The managers who work in the offices see it as their birth right to use the parking bays for their own vehicles rather than park in the street like all the other staff and pay the parking charges every day.

Now, being a council operation, they have council vehicles which operate from that office, used by the staff that work there. The council vans are supposed to be parked in those parking bays when not in use, and why not indeed? If the council have their own off street parking in the city centre they should be using it to minimise outlays and reduce the cost to the customers. You would think.

Back to the managers. As far as they are concerned, there is free parking at their office and they are going to use it. So they do. Where do the vans go? Out on the street at parking meters. The parking meter tickets are then put through as expenses and no-one knows the difference.

Then someone thought it might be cheaper daily to park the vans in the NCP carpark nearby. Genius.

Bugger. The vans couldn't get into the NCP carpark because they have orange light bars on top which make them too high to get under the maximum height bar which hung over the entrance. Bugger indeed.

Then someone thought of an idea to get the vans into that carpark.

They spent a few thousand pounds, as I understand it, fitting all the vans with new light bars, newer and lower ones that could fit under the maximum height bar to get them into the NCP carpark.

Genius.

So, they spent thousands of pounds which in a roundabout way gets charged to us, changing their vehicles to save money on parking charges....so their managers get free parking.

One word. Wankers.