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Cycle in and lock your bike up, if the space is available they most likely won't clock on for a while and when they do be vague about who said you could and ask what the problem with it is. Either that or they notice on the day and the argument is turned upto 11 and resolved once and for all.
Also having worked in facilities management before we had a messed up system where my bosses for the building wanted tenants to give something in writing to say they understood it was at own risk(never asked this for a car which could be stolen/damaged) and so some tenants just couldn't be bothered to do this for employees and would fob them off the same as they might be with you.
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There is always a space available, even if everyone registered for the bike parking rode in on a single day! The only challenge is that security have a list of names and assigned numbers that they just put a tick mark against every day when you ride in. I have numbers for people who use them sporadically so I am just going to rotate through those on days I know they arent using them, be friendly and just explain the situation if questioned. Successful day #1.
Our in house facilities management are happy to take credit when things have to be done (even when tehy are done poorly) but otherwise are very difficult to deal with. At one point they were trying to tell us that 27C temperatures in our area of the office were acceptable and only did something when we threatend to take it to the COO.
Edit - Karma for my complaining about them...apparently both the chillers in our building just failed simultaneously. Its about to get hot in here.
stevielarson
So I started commuting into work this spring having moved to South London, making the ride into the City more viable. Around the time I was going to start riding I asked my employer (medium sized financial institution) about getting access to our cycle parking but was told that all of the bike parking spots we hold in the building are currently allocated and that they will actually need to decrease the number allocated at some point as we are looking to sublet some of our existing floor space.
At the time I accepted this and have just been locking my bike at street level and right next to a busy tube station. Curently ride in nearly every day, lock it up, wander into the bike parking/showers and then on my way back up I put on an extra, heavier lock that I bought.
I have since enquired again as the crappier months of weather approach (hoping to keep my bike out of the elements) and was again told that we have no available spots. I have argued with our facilities people that the bike parking is never even close to being full and that there are also dozens of spaces allocated to motorcycle parking when there are never more than 2-4 motorcycles. I think our building allocated spots based on the number of stands available (this type) which they could reasonably park two bikes on. The facilities people claim that they have asked the building about providing more spots but that the building management say our company doesn't even use all of the spots allocated so they won't add any which is true because many people don't ride in regularly if at all.
I am going to raies it again and push the angle of being a good employer but my question is if my employer has some legal obligation to provide these facilities or to make them available to me since they are avalable to others?
TLDR; Employer has no more bike parking slots to allocate and claim building management wont give them more despite bike parking never being close to full and easy changes to add more. Looking for advice.
Any advice appreciated.