The most detested job role

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Is there anyone more detested than a parking attendent?

I know everyone has to make a livign but who would choose this as your profession. Just saw one giving a ticket to an old lady who could hardly walk as she was coming back to her car 5 mins late. The filthy jobsworth even seemed to have a wry smile on his face whilst issuing it
 
No one likes getting a ticket but if they didn't exist some areas would be terrible...so in some respects I'm glad they exist...doesn't stop me being in a rage whenever I get a ticket :(
 
CanonDjango said:
Is there anyone more detested than a parking attendent?

I know everyone has to make a livign but who would choose this as your profession. Just saw one giving a ticket to an old lady who could hardly walk as she was coming back to her car 5 mins late. The filthy jobsworth even seemed to have a wry smile on his face whilst issuing it
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Just to be devil's advocate; would this thread have been started if the ticket recipient had been some 19 year old oily oik getting back to his car, also having returned 5 minutes after the allotted parking time had expired?
 
viv1969 said:
Just to be devil's advocate; would this thread have been started if the ticket recipient had been some 19 year old oily oik getting back to his car, also having returned 5 minutes after the allotted parking time had expired?
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yes ...

but the tone would have been different. It would have been titled "Long live traffic attendents" and the body would have been celebrating how one of them caught an oik out and serves him right
 
Righty-oh.
 
Someone has to do the job, and if they enjoy their work, good for them. Why should it make a difference who the person is that receives the ticket?
 
CanonDjango said:
Is there anyone more detested than a parking attendent?

I know everyone has to make a livign but who would choose this as your profession. Just saw one giving a ticket to an old lady who could hardly walk as she was coming back to her car 5 mins late. The filthy jobsworth even seemed to have a wry smile on his face whilst issuing it
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probably not. And (at least round here) they are a bunch of jobs worth t*ssers. But, to be fair I know they're told to be jobs worth t*ssers to everyone, and if any discretion is to be shown its at a later stage of the process
 
Nikon_Nick said:
Someone has to do the job, and if they enjoy their work, good for them. Why should it make a difference who the person is that receives the ticket?
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Exactly.
I suspect old Canon just had his hearstrings twanged by the old girl. :p:LOL:
 
CanonDjango said:
it shouldn't but it soooooooooo does.
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No, it doesn't.
If the old girl can't work out her own capabilities, and the passage of time, perhaps she should reconsider her compentancy to drive.
The rules apply to everyone.
 
viv1969 said:
No, it doesn't.
If the old girl can't work out her own capabilities, and the passage of time, perhaps she should reconsider her compentancy to drive.
The rules apply to everyone.
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Agreed.

...they dont get sent bus passes for nothing ya' know! :exit:
 
Can't say I'm fond of traffic wardens (as they are known in this vicinity). I'm a Blue Badge holder but I do occasionally have a good enough day to go out on my scooter, as in my avatar. I have nowhere to 'safely' display the badge on the scooter so I took a photo of both sides, printed it out on a 6" X 4" photo, laminated it and then I taped it to the inside of my screen. I wrote all the relevant details on the back of the photo too so they could tell the issue date easily enough. I'd been to pick something up for a friend as my wife was already out in the car, parked on a paved area of a car park where other bikes were parked too and when I got back I'd got a ticket and the rest of the bikes hadn't. Needless to say I wasn't best pleased and the charges were eventually dropped after a couple of letters to the local council and a solicitors. I guess the warden didn't like Quadrophenia when he was growing up :)
 
modchild said:
Can't say I'm fond of traffic wardens (as they are known in this vicinity). I'm a Blue Badge holder but I do occasionally have a good enough day to go out on my scooter, as in my avatar. I have nowhere to 'safely' display the badge on the scooter so I took a photo of both sides, printed it out on a 6" X 4" photo, laminated it and then I taped it to the inside of my screen. I wrote all the relevant details on the back of the photo too so they could tell the issue date easily enough. I'd been to pick something up for a friend as my wife was already out in the car, parked on a paved area of a car park where other bikes were parked too and when I got back I'd got a ticket and the rest of the bikes hadn't. Needless to say I wasn't best pleased and the charges were eventually dropped after a couple of letters to the local council and a solicitors. I guess the warden didn't like Quadrophenia when he was growing up :)
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what a jobsworth!
 
modchild said:
Can't say I'm fond of traffic wardens (as they are known in this vicinity). I'm a Blue Badge holder but I do occasionally have a good enough day to go out on my scooter, as in my avatar. I have nowhere to 'safely' display the badge on the scooter so I took a photo of both sides, printed it out on a 6" X 4" photo, laminated it and then I taped it to the inside of my screen. I wrote all the relevant details on the back of the photo too so they could tell the issue date easily enough. I'd been to pick something up for a friend as my wife was already out in the car, parked on a paved area of a car park where other bikes were parked too and when I got back I'd got a ticket and the rest of the bikes hadn't. Needless to say I wasn't best pleased and the charges were eventually dropped after a couple of letters to the local council and a solicitors. I guess the warden didn't like Quadrophenia when he was growing up :)
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Strictly speaking, isn't the charge 'not displaying a valid badge', or something, similar to the not displaying a valid tax disk? How was he to know it's a valid disk and not a dodgy copy?

I draw your attention to the rules about having a blue badge, which you agree to.
https://www.gov.uk/government/uploa...206022/blue-badge-rights-responsibilities.pdf

Part of which says, you must never use a copied badge to park or attempt to alter the details.
 
neil_g said:
no doubt but IT departments are normally branded as "little hitlers" with all of their rules and restrictions.
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There are plenty parallels I can think of a bit closer to home.
 
Same old, same old. If you know the rules then don't break them. If you do, don't start snivelling about the fact the apposite punishment has been administered.
 
lol, some job in one form or another is detested by some but surely these jobs like parking attendant and baliff have to be done to keep society going, without them it would be anarchy.
Its the same when people detest the police but happy to call them when they have an issue.
Trouble is people would rather bury their head in the sand ignore advice and warnings then blame everyone else
 
in my experience the police act with more integrity than a parking attendent.

Theres a street outside my studio that has 30 min limited parking until 6pm. What happens is you get people arriving at 5.25pm that park there and leave their cars because they figure that last 5 mins noone is going to be that much of a jobsworth to fine them. At 6pm on the dot three traffic wardons come down the street everyday and fine all the cars.

theres doing your job and then theres doing that.
 
it must be forum moderator.
The moderator is unpaid, gives up the time freely but has to deal with petulant children, people who cant read the rules, people that think the rules dont apply to them, people who are rude, abrasive and unfriendly to others and people who behave like a gang of feral 10 year olds when they think they have an easy victim to troll. Lucky for us we dont have any members who are like that, otherwise the mods would get smart-arse comments and replies for just doing the right thing and trying to keep the place friendly and ticking over nicely.
 
pitkin2020 said:
surely these jobs like parking attendant and baliff have to be done to keep society going, without them it would be anarchy.
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Seriously? I mean really? How do those lucky places with no parking attendents copy? & the majority of the population who never incur a debt that will involve a bailiff. Anarchy there too.
 
Any manager!


The warden in the OP was probably smiling because he'd spotted her jogging to the corner before starting to hobble to get the sympathy vote :)
 
CanonDjango said:
in my experience the police act with more integrity than a parking attendent.

Theres a street outside my studio that has 30 min limited parking until 6pm. What happens is you get people arriving at 5.25pm that park there and leave their cars because they figure that last 5 mins noone is going to be that much of a jobsworth to fine them. At 6pm on the dot three traffic wardons come down the street everyday and fine all the cars.

theres doing your job and then theres doing that.
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Actually, there is doing your job (which the traffic wardens are doing) and there is taking the P (which the drivers are doing, and KNOW they are doing)

.....I have been a traffic warden (in a previous life!) and can hand on heart say that no-one got a ticket off me for being legally parked.

....there were plenty of people who got one for NOT being legally parked though! :D
 
I'd love to be a traffic warden I cant stand people who think they can park where they like regardless of the the problems it causes others. Mind you I'd do it just for a day much longer and there would be a contract out on my life :)

Steve
 
boyfalldown said:
Seriously? I mean really? How do those lucky places with no parking attendents copy? & the majority of the population who never incur a debt that will involve a bailiff. Anarchy there too.
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The lucky places with no parking attendants obviously don't need them or they would have them! :)
 
Tigger.ufo said:
Actually, there is doing your job (which the traffic wardens are doing) and there is taking the P (which the drivers are doing, and KNOW they are doing)

.....I have been a traffic warden (in a previous life!) and can hand on heart say that no-one got a ticket off me for being legally parked.

....there were plenty of people who got one for NOT being legally parked though! :D
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Not from you (nor intended in anyway but a statement of fact), but I've had 3 in the last year. For being perfectly legally parked (& in accordance with my permit). All were overturned on appeal. So it's not just the drivers who take the P. I know the rules around me are complicated, but I'd expect the civil enforcement officers to understand them.
 
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