Leaving a bike parked in gear
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Re: Leaving a bike parked in gear
thats the same with monty i used to have an expense account a company cc,now i get 2.50 to cover a sandwich it doest even buy a coffee !Monty wrote:Can you at least claim the mileage?
Must admit my expenses have taken a dive with my latest company, I have to buy my own lunch unless I'm staying over night or leaving the house before 6am.
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Re: Leaving a bike parked in gear
Kwacky wrote: It's also exposed to the elements. ?
Whats happened to the space it was parked in before ? has it been allocated to someone else or could you still park there if you could ?
Like D6, I would want to park where I wanted to if I was paying to use it
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Re: Leaving a bike parked in gear
That's pap! The irony is with my lot is I'd be quite happy to drive to Glasgow and back in a day but there's no way I'd do that and pay for my own lunch and dinner. So I stay in hotels or rent city centre flats at many times the cost of a few sandwiches and coffees.Perkles wrote:thats the same with monty i used to have an expense account a company cc,now i get 2.50 to cover a sandwich it doest even buy a coffee !Monty wrote:Can you at least claim the mileage?
Must admit my expenses have taken a dive with my latest company, I have to buy my own lunch unless I'm staying over night or leaving the house before 6am.
Still it's a lot better than my old boss when I was self employed, that guy was a real tosser.
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Re: Leaving a bike parked in gear
Spudda wrote:Kwacky wrote: It's also exposed to the elements. ?
Whats happened to the space it was parked in before ? has it been allocated to someone else or could you still park there if you could ?
Like D6, I would want to park where I wanted to if I was paying to use it
I used to park it next to the building, to one side and well out of the way of everyone else. Head of HR has always had it in her head that someone cold walk by and knock it over. I have explained that in 6 years no one has come into contact with it, let alone knock it. The bike is parked against the wall so if someone did hit it it would fall towards the wall, not on someone.
Hopefully you can work it out from these photos in the SX thread.
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Re: Leaving a bike parked in gear
Looks as if its out of the way and not causing any disruption ... what would be the consequences if you kept parking there ?
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Re: Leaving a bike parked in gear
Exactly what I was going to say. If they don't like it park in the spot the person who protests likes to use. If your paying the same rate as a car you entitled to a full carpark space and out of spite I would use the particular one the HR manager or who ever the other busy body making a fuzz over nothing likes to use.Spudda wrote:Looks as if its out of the way and not causing any disruption ... what would be the consequences if you kept parking there ?
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Re: Leaving a bike parked in gear
Sadly companies employ people to actually make more problems than really exist these days.
Health and Safety has a place in all businesses but once you make it someones job to look at H&S issues then they will find other non-existent problems to raise to justify their position.
Health and Safety has a place in all businesses but once you make it someones job to look at H&S issues then they will find other non-existent problems to raise to justify their position.
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Re: Leaving a bike parked in gear
I remember watching a program a while ago which was about dispelling the health and safety myth. They looked at a number of h&s complaints and then proved how it was nothing to do with h&s and had been made up either by the company or the internet.
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Re: Leaving a bike parked in gear
My bike is parked in the same place it was before they introduced the new parking bay.
1-0 to me.
1-0 to me.
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Re: Leaving a bike parked in gear
Always leave mine in gear....it's not going to do any harm, is it??
And from just a security standpoint, anything you can do to make things harder for a tea-leaf is a plus, yes??
And from just a security standpoint, anything you can do to make things harder for a tea-leaf is a plus, yes??
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Re: Leaving a bike parked in gear
Haha go Kwacky, go Kwacky go go go Kwacky keep doing it at the end of the day it's protection for your property. And having a bike parked outside the office has a cool look to it to!!Kwacky wrote:My bike is parked in the same place it was before they introduced the new parking bay.
1-0 to me.