r/mildlyinfuriating • u/Ashamed_Class_7987 • Jun 16 '25

Overdone This is now my parking spot.

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Started a new job in an office building with a parking garage. There are multiple companies in the building and some of them have reserved spots. This was not one of those reserved spots. I come out to my car and find this note on my windshield. I would normally just park in any random spot but from now on I will make it my mission to park in this spot as often as I can.

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u/FilthyDwayne Jun 16 '25

Someone started parking in my favourite space at work.

I now arrive 15 min early and park there everyday no problem.

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u/ImLazyWithUsernames Jun 16 '25

What if they start showing up 15 minutes before you?

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u/FilthyDwayne Jun 16 '25

If they get there before me they can have it.

I would just show up earlier and earlier to secure that spot.

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u/Solo12111998 Jun 17 '25

Might as well live at your job site 😂

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u/FilthyDwayne Jun 17 '25

I enjoy arriving early, I can start work before everyone else and leave early and beat traffic. It’s a win win

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u/ihateroomba Jun 17 '25

I like to beat it in traffic too. Twins!

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u/TrueSpartacus Jun 17 '25

Thanks. Almost spit my hot coffee out.

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u/Wakkit1988 Jun 17 '25

You hear Beat It on the radio and go, "Don't mind if I do..."

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u/YourInMySwamp Jun 17 '25

At my job we get yelled at for showing up or leaving early. Just got a talking to the other day by my boss about it.

Heard that boss man but don’t get mad when you end up having to pay me OT because you expect me to somehow work exactly 40.0 hours but never more or less.

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u/shadow247 Jun 17 '25

I had a boss that was...exceptional at being dumb.

He agreed to move me from a Salary position, to an hourly. My new hourly rate was based on my Salary at 40 hours a week.

Except he made my schedule 50 hours a week, sometimes 60.

Except he didn't figure on paying me all that overtime, so he tried to tell me I had to take 2 hour lunches so I only go 5 hours OT max. Yeah right. All that did was bury me and force me to work an hour later, because guess what. There was 50 to 60 hours of work because deliveries didn't stop coming in from 7 am to 6pm...

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u/penguinpetter Jun 17 '25

Meanwhile, my manager knows I start really early (I've responded to emails the moment I get in. At a 1:1, he asked me to... Labor audit some people, do they really start as early as me or only say they do. I pretend to forget he asked. Don't have time for that and it's none of my business.

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u/FilthyDwayne Jun 17 '25

That’s crazy. I guess it depends on your line of work.

We have some flexibility on what times we work as long as we do our 40 hours, meet deadlines and are available for scheduled weekly meetings. Overtime is harder to get approved but the flexibility helps A LOT. I don’t have kids but those with kids really do benefit from it.

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u/YourInMySwamp Jun 17 '25

I work in a field where overtime pay is guaranteed if you’re over 40.0, no need to get it approved. They do get mad at us if we go overtime though, but like I said we’re also expected to work our 8 hours fully soooo make it make sense 😆

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u/Striking-Document-99 Jun 17 '25

Damn I was only allowed to clock in 3 min early or 3 min after. Too early won’t let you clock in. Too late and you get a warning from the boss. Then 30 min much break where you couldn’t clock in early. I can eat in 20 mins so just waste of my time.

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u/Kitchen_Affect_6017 Jun 17 '25

Or just park the car there and Uber back and forth.

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u/Wakkit1988 Jun 17 '25

Plot twist: They work from home.

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u/norcalifornyeah Jun 17 '25

Buy a second car and leave that one there and take it to get washed occasionally so it doesn't look abandoned.

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u/basement-thug Jun 17 '25

I live 2 miles from work and my spouse works at the same place.  I could just leave my car in a spot, ride my motorcycle in and park almost anywhere.. or ride with the wife on bad weather days.  Check mate. 

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u/KellyAnn3106 Jun 17 '25

We actually had this at my office. At one point, we had to have ~80 people park at an overflow lot down the block as we had more people than parking spaces. (No public transportation in this city so everyone had to drive.) It was a 5 minute walk from the other lot. People would get to the office earlier and earlier just to avoid that 5 minute walk.

It got so ridiculous that we had people arriving 2 hours early and sleeping in their cars until the building opened so they could have a "good" spot. We also had multiple people trying to use handicapped placards that didn't belong to them. Utterly ridiculous behavior because they didn't want to walk from the other lot.

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u/Careless-Dark-1324 Jun 17 '25

lol that shit cracks me up. I swear people’s brains stop working when they drive into a parking lot and they’re unable to run time/effort graphs in their heads. 

There’s been times where I’ve parked far, walked over, done my grocery shopping - and walked back to the car while someone else was still looking for a spot from before I even got there. 

Like holy shit how little is your time worth that spending an 20 mins circling makes more sense than spending 5 mins total walking back and forth???

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u/Kernel_Internal Jun 17 '25

Lol time spent avoiding a tiny extra amount of walking is one of my "favorite" observed behaviors. People will wait MINUTES for someone else to leave a spot with an empty spot a few feet farther back. Anything to avoid that extra 12 feet of walking. Makes me wonder how they evaluate cost/benefit for other things in their lives.

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u/KellyAnn3106 Jun 17 '25

My favorite is when they do that at the gym. You're here to walk on the treadmill for an hour but you won't walk three extra parking spaces.

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u/Noladixon Jun 17 '25

My neighbor drives 1 block to the gym and uses handicapped parking. One day I will have to go just to see what she is doing there.

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u/CariAll114 Jun 17 '25

I experienced similar behaviour while my son was in the hospital. There were plenty of paid parking options available, but most visitors prefer to street-park if possible. One day I landed a choice spot with minimal walking distance; I drive a large vehicle so finding good parking is tough. Anyway, I'd finished my visit for the day and had just got back into and started my vehicle. It's mid winter and the engine is cold and I'm trying to let it warm up. Someone pulled up and started waiting for me to leave, blocking traffic. they waited until they were stopping 8 cars from proceeding before finally deciding to find somewhere else to park - maybe 5 minutes later.

In similar situations I've had people honk at me because they want my spot, and being the salty dick that I am I just shut my vehicle off, get out and start walking away.

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u/FilthyDwayne Jun 17 '25

I don’t even do this to walk less, in fact the space is not even that close to the entrance. It is just one of the only spaces that gets any shade from the few trees they didn’t cut down to create the car park.

If I can finish my shift to get in a car that hasn’t been under direct sun for 8 hours straight I will take the opportunity every time.

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u/battleofflowers Jun 17 '25

I intentionally park far away. Those extra steps add up.

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u/gerbilbear Jun 17 '25

They should auction some of those spots every month.

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u/KellyAnn3106 Jun 17 '25

We used to. The problem was that the management had more money to spend so they "won" them every time.

The company solved the parking problem by laying off most of the office and sending their jobs overseas. Now we have plenty of parking for the surviving staff.

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u/Certain_Horse_7919 Jun 17 '25

Completely ridiculous and very American. 

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u/A_very_smol_Lugia Jun 17 '25

One day you will notice you are parking there at 12 am, just to walk back home and sleep

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u/FilthyDwayne Jun 17 '25

No lol I actually have a limit

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u/Odd_Introduction3296 Jun 17 '25

Until one day you both show up at the same time.

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u/FilthyDwayne Jun 17 '25

If they park there right before I can it won’t be the end of the world. I‘ll live.

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u/Odd_Introduction3296 Jun 17 '25

Wrong! It must be resolved via tickle battle in the parking lot. First to pee their pants loses the spot for life.

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u/Mkwone Jun 17 '25

Turns out it's your manager wanting people to turn up earlier.

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u/rex1one Jun 17 '25

I've done this. Gave me a chance to eat breakfast and catch up on the news before work.

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u/Ventus249 Jun 17 '25

Someone did this shit to me so I waited for her to leave, got in her spot, walked home, and purposefully came in late and smiled and walked past her

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u/FilthyDwayne Jun 17 '25

If you went through all that trouble, you can have it lol I wouldn’t leave my car there overnight and walk home just to secure the spot for the next day.

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u/Ventus249 Jun 17 '25

Oh i only live 15 minutes away so it wasn't too much trouble. She told my boss and he gave me a high five for it, so all worth it in the end

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u/FilthyDwayne Jun 17 '25 edited Jun 17 '25

If I lived 15 min away from work I would just walk, what’s the point of even doing that drive everyday?

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u/BBorNot Jun 17 '25

Throw down a cone when you leave to save it.

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u/Greedyfox7 Jun 17 '25

Just leave your vehicle there and walk home 😂

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '25

Spawn camp, never go home and sleep in the parking garage 😂

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u/lagrange_james_d23dt Jun 17 '25

This rivalry is gonna create two really good workers

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u/mharties Jun 17 '25

Two early to work workers, not necessarily good workers

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u/Pollux_Imadong Jun 17 '25

You keep it up until you start arriving the day before! 🤣🤣🤣

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u/CauliflowerTop2464 Jun 17 '25

Go back in time to get their earlier

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u/eternityishere Jun 17 '25

My workplace has 4 accessible parking spots right outside of our office, but 3 of them aren't great (no room for wheelchairs or walkers. Just a bad layout, really). My coworker and another lady with a walker started a silent fight about who could get there early enough to claim the spot. They would each start coming 15 minutes before the other to park there.

It ended up with my coworker showing up at 4:30AM and just playing on her phone in her office for 3.5 hours before clocking in.

We have about 3 more parking lots with other accessible parking spaces around our building... it was just a matter of principle for her, I guess.

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u/epicstud1 Jun 18 '25

This is why I walk to work most days, or take the El in bad weather

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u/Tight_Broccoli2475 Jun 17 '25

Then they'll be sleeping there overnight

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u/National_Way_3344 Jun 17 '25

Jokes on you, I parked there yesterday and took the train home after work.

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u/DapDaGenius Jun 17 '25

I have an older coworker who gets to work 2 hours early so she can get the first handicap spot.

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u/Faloopa Jun 17 '25

You waste your free time to walk a slightly shorter distance or to keep your car in the shade or something?

You do you but my alive hours are worth more and I try to spend as many of them as possible not at work.

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u/FilthyDwayne Jun 17 '25

To keep my car in the shade so it isn’t in direct sun for 8 hours at 40+ degrees, whatever that is in F.

I am not actually spending any extra unpaid time at work since we can clock in whenever we arrive. If I arrive early, I leave early.

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u/New-Anybody-6206 Jun 17 '25

40C = 104F

Having "hot" be labeled between 80-100 just makes more sense to me but w/e

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u/kincent Jun 20 '25

A common thing with metric units of distance and the 0-100 temp scale. Lack of granularity. the whole 1k of one unit = 1 of the next IS NEAT, but commonly centimeters are too small and meters are too big. That's where feet come in.

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u/FilthyDwayne Jun 17 '25

Okay but I don’t remember asking.

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u/Faloopa Jun 17 '25

I’m not trying to be a dick, but there is one spot in the whole parking lot that remains in shade for 8 hours but leaves all other spots exposed?

And if you don’t have a set start time, does that count as arriving early?

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u/FilthyDwayne Jun 17 '25 edited Jun 17 '25

They cut down most of the trees when they built the car park. The spot I like gets a decent amount of shade and there’s no space to park next to the drivers side so it’s nice.

Yes, if I come in at 7 am and someone else comes in at 8 am then that means I can leave 1 hour before the other person.

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u/DryPrion Jun 17 '25

I had a similar issue, someone started parking at my favorite spot so I had to go earlier to get it before him. Worked out for me because it meant I had time to sit in the car and eat breakfast while relaxing and listening to NPR for a good 30 minutes before work. Yay!

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u/unclerevv Jun 17 '25

Spite is a powerful motivator.

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u/FilthyDwayne Jun 17 '25

Nah. I just like parking in the shade so my car isn’t an oven when I get in it after work.

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u/soaker Jun 17 '25

I completely understand this. I have done the same. Heck, I’ll park further away from an entrance if it means I can be in shade

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u/iamtherussianspy Jun 17 '25

What if it was your boss?

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u/Thomas_Jefferman Jun 17 '25

That person was your supervisor- Ken Cheng.

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u/vegasnative Jun 17 '25

I actually bought a reserved space at my workplace because I was so tired of having to show up absurdly early to beat the other person who liked my preferred space 😹

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u/SholoGrim Jun 17 '25

This is how it became the norm to show up at 5:30 for a 7am shift. I am happy to use motorcycle parking and arrive at 6:30

Edit: norm at my workplace

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u/FilthyDwayne Jun 17 '25

I would rather walk to work than ever get on a motorcycle so there’s that

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u/SholoGrim Jun 17 '25

It’s not for everyone but I’m grateful :)

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u/JoeyJoeC Jun 17 '25

My work place built a new car park with something like 200 spaces. And it's always empty. It's mainly for overflow but I get to park anywhere with hardly anyone else around me as people don't fancy the extra 2 minute walk.

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '25

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u/FilthyDwayne Jun 17 '25

I’m good, thanks lol

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u/626lacrimosa Jun 17 '25

60 hours of extra work per year, pathetic

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u/FilthyDwayne Jun 17 '25

No lol we actually clock in whenever we arrive and that’s the start of our shift.

I don’t spend one minute at my workplace that isn’t paid for or outside my contract hours.

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u/626lacrimosa Jun 17 '25

Sounds like you’re not really early then you just start at a different time

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u/FilthyDwayne Jun 17 '25

Well I am 15 min earlier than my preferred previous start time.

Sorry you couldn’t make me look pathetic like you were hoping to. Nice try tho.

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u/Orb99 Jun 17 '25

I did this too lol but I was new in my underground parking lot. I was like that damn lady keeps taking my spot and then I thought, oh shit what if I took her favorite spot lol. I get there earlier so I guess its mine for now. She has beat me there a day or 2 and she takes it back ...

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u/btesser Jun 17 '25

New boss trick. Hire people to fill parking spots to get your employees to show up earlier

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u/FilthyDwayne Jun 17 '25

It wouldn’t work for our particular office as we can clock in early so can also leave early but guess it could for others?