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Work just keeps on giving ridiculous stuff! I couldn't make this up if I tried!
There is one handicapped spot right in front of front door. No one disabled in office, so it doesn't get used. Noticed a few days recently that someone has been parking in the spot. No handicapped placard in view or plates. Turns out it was one of the warehouse workers who is temporarily on crutches. We warned her that parking there without a placard might get her a ticket ($250). She said she'd take her chances.
She was parked in the handicapped spot again today. Cops came by and she got a ticket. She was a drama llama when she came out to her car at lunch and saw the ticket. Turns out another of the warehouse workers called the cops and which resulted in her getting a ticket. This guy's mother uses a wheelchair and sometimes has been unable to get a parking spot due to unauthorized people parking in handicapped spots. He said he got tired of seeing someone without placard parking in the handicapped spot at my office, so he called it in.
The warehouse workers are temps and just drama queens!
She's unhappy with the consequences of her actions - maybe the $250 will be a lesson.
At my work years ago there was a temp doing the same thing, parking in a reserved spot. The first time she was given a warning, second time she was told if you do it again you will be fired. Yep, she parked there again and was surprised when she was told she no longer had a job. Weird thing is it's a big parking lot, all free, and she could have parked elsewhere. I don't get that mindset.
catherine
11-16-18, 11:11am
I would have given her my parking spot if she was on crutches. But if the cops or co-workers don't know, they're going to give you a ticket.
The worst was my BIL. My MIL was handicapped and got a placard. But BIL would regularly drive her car to the shopping center, train station, whatever, and then hang the placard on the rear view mirror. Honestly. He deserved the fine and then some. Sometimes people can't get past their own little world.
My spot was far from the door. And given her attitude, I wouldn’t have given up a closer space anyway.
catherine
11-16-18, 12:37pm
My spot was far from the door. And given her attitude, I wouldn’t have given up a closer space anyway.
I'm not saying you should have. I was saying that if she's on crutches it would be nice for her to not have to walk as far. So her using the handicapped space wouldn't have bothered me, but she should fully expect to have gotten a ticket.
What I don't understand about those parking places is why the heck the doctor does not give you a temporary one. My husband shattered his pelvis, and they did not give us one, and you better believe walking was hard for him.
Maybe not permanently hard for him, but it was a rough 3-4 months.
At my last workplace we had a private lot with numerous handicap spaces available for employees and visitors. I routinely issued temporary permits to employees if they could show a need, such as late stage pregnancy or broken bones which limited mobility, etc.
At my last workplace we had a private lot with numerous handicap spaces available for employees and visitors. I routinely issued temporary permits to employees if they could show a need, such as late stage pregnancy or broken bones which limited mobility, etc.
Now that makes sense!! I think the crutches employee should have had a space closer to the building, but I understand about the parking placards.
What I don't understand about those parking places is why the heck the doctor does not give you a temporary one. My husband shattered his pelvis, and they did not give us one, and you better believe walking was hard for him.
Maybe not permanently hard for him, but it was a rough 3-4 months.
Did you actually request the form signed by the doctor to submit to your state licensing bureau? I had a 6 month temp after my total knee and got the form 3w before surgery so I would have it by surgery day.
I think I only used a handicap spot 6-8 times. I tried to find a spot close enough so someone in worse shape than me could have the much needed HC space.
Did you actually request the form signed by the doctor to submit to your state licensing bureau? I had a 6 month temp after my total knee and got the form 3w before surgery so I would have it by surgery day.
I think I only used a handicap spot 6-8 times. I tried to find a spot close enough so someone in worse shape than me could have the much needed HC space.
Yeah -- here in WA the temporary ones are pretty easy to get. I got the paperwork for one for my mom at her last medical appointment. She was on hospice/oxygen at that point, so met the criteria as she could not walk far. Took the forms to the licensing office on the way home and got the placard immediately. Sadly never used it as mom declined pretty rapidly from that point on.
What I don't understand about those parking places is why the heck the doctor does not give you a temporary one. My husband shattered his pelvis, and they did not give us one, and you better believe walking was hard for him.
Maybe not permanently hard for him, but it was a rough 3-4 months.
Here in IL, you have to get a form signed by a medical professional and take it to the Secretary of State's office (aka DMV) to get a temporary placard. The doctors don't hand out the placards themselves.
Heck, when I had my shingles attack in March and had issues walking (I even had to have 10 PT sessions), it didn't even occur to me to get a temporary placard.
At my last workplace we had a private lot with numerous handicap spaces available for employees and visitors. I routinely issued temporary permits to employees if they could show a need, such as late stage pregnancy or broken bones which limited mobility, etc.
We have a private lot, as well, but cops still have access to the lot. I don't even know if it's legal for workplaces here to issue temporary permits for employees without a handicapped placard to park in a handicapped spot.
We have a private lot, as well, but cops still have access to the lot. I don't even know if it's legal for workplaces here to issue temporary permits for employees without a handicapped placard to park in a handicapped spot.Police only entered our property upon request. The placards we produced and distributed clearly noted their validity only at our company name and address and their issuance was cleared with the local authority (county Sheriff).
I agree with the other comments. WHy didn't she get a temporary permit. I don't know about in IL, but in CO as soon as my dad was prescribed part-time oxygen his doc practically forced him to accept a handicap permit even though my stubborn father didn't want one if he "didn't really need it" It sat in the glove box of his car until my sister and I were visiting him a couple years later and drove to dinner one night and the only parking spot was the handicap spot and he said, "oh, well, I've got this. I guess we could park there," and he pulled it out for it's first ever use. (by this point he was dragging around an oxygen tank anytime he left his apartment.) I can't imagine docs are especially stingy with approvals for them.
Miss Cellaneous
11-19-18, 4:21pm
Temporary permit regulations vary from state to state. Some states make it easy, some don't.
In the OP, if the woman on crutches was a temp and getting the permit meant that she'd have to go to the DVM, she'd lose pay for the hours she was away from work getting the permit. Or she might have faced consequences from the temp agency if she took time off to deal with getting the permit, especially if she'd already missed time due to whatever put her on crutches.
One time I was on crutches for 10 days. I asked the doctor about a temporary permit and he said it wasn't worth it for such a short time and refused. But I was working on a university campus and my designated parking lot was a mile from the building where I worked. I was forced to take the campus shuttle bus, which meant getting to campus an hour before I needed to so that I could catch the bus and not be late to work. The parking office on campus also refused to issue me a temporary permit to park in a closer parking lot. Those were some very unpleasant days.
Miss Cellaneous, your experience was much closer to our experiences than what others have described here. I have been in a wheelchair and they would not do a temporary permit. But that was 15 years ago, maybe things have improved for others.
Did the guy who called the police first try to talk with the person on crutches directly? Or if he didn't know who it was did he leave a kind informative note on the car? And only after that call the police?
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