Staff carpark etiquette 17:19 - Sep 28 with 2610 views | Mullet | If you opened your door into a colleague's car what would you do? I came back to two big grey streaks on my car, having had a grey park next to mine after I'd gone into work. One has left a small scratch, and their door lined with where it would have hit my car. I reckon I can probably T-Cut it all out with a bit of work and leave little damage, but am I wrong to be annoyed they've said nothing? I've already had a bad day so wondering if I'm being precious? |  |
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Staff carpark etiquette on 17:21 - Sep 28 with 2114 views | jeera | I'd be tempted to photo it and leave a note. But don't go overboard in case they genuinely didn't realise. At least wait for a response before battering them to a bloody heap. |  |
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Staff carpark etiquette on 17:23 - Sep 28 with 2102 views | ElderGrizzly |
Staff carpark etiquette on 17:21 - Sep 28 by jeera | I'd be tempted to photo it and leave a note. But don't go overboard in case they genuinely didn't realise. At least wait for a response before battering them to a bloody heap. |
Nonsense. The only proportionate response is this |  | |  |
Staff carpark etiquette on 17:24 - Sep 28 with 2078 views | jeera |
Staff carpark etiquette on 17:23 - Sep 28 by ElderGrizzly | Nonsense. The only proportionate response is this |
If I had one of those that's possibly the way I would go about it. |  |
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Staff carpark etiquette on 17:25 - Sep 28 with 2079 views | Mullet |
Staff carpark etiquette on 17:21 - Sep 28 by jeera | I'd be tempted to photo it and leave a note. But don't go overboard in case they genuinely didn't realise. At least wait for a response before battering them to a bloody heap. |
Yeah I took photos cos it looked worse than once I got home and had space to get to it and inspect properly. The not realising gets me as I can't imagine they'd not notice parking so close and the size of the paintmarks etc. |  |
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Staff carpark etiquette on 17:26 - Sep 28 with 2055 views | ElderGrizzly |
Staff carpark etiquette on 17:24 - Sep 28 by jeera | If I had one of those that's possibly the way I would go about it. |
At times like this, ask "what would Jeremy Beadle do?" |  | |  |
Staff carpark etiquette on 17:46 - Sep 28 with 2000 views | Illinoisblue | Sledgehammer to every grey car until someone fesses up |  |
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Staff carpark etiquette on 17:52 - Sep 28 with 1974 views | bluelagos | Suppose a lot depends on whose car it is, and how well you get on with them. And whether the t-cut does it's magic. |  |
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Staff carpark etiquette on 17:54 - Sep 28 with 1967 views | Mullet |
Staff carpark etiquette on 17:52 - Sep 28 by bluelagos | Suppose a lot depends on whose car it is, and how well you get on with them. And whether the t-cut does it's magic. |
Colleague informs they think they know whose motor it is. Tomorrow will not be fun if they're right. |  |
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Staff carpark etiquette on 17:56 - Sep 28 with 1950 views | bluelagos |
Staff carpark etiquette on 17:54 - Sep 28 by Mullet | Colleague informs they think they know whose motor it is. Tomorrow will not be fun if they're right. |
Not be fun...for them or you? |  |
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Staff carpark etiquette on 17:57 - Sep 28 with 1946 views | FoghornGleghorn | You're not wrong, if it's made enough contact to leave what you call "big grey streaks" it can't have been done unnoticed, so it's a dick move. |  | |  |
Staff carpark etiquette on 18:03 - Sep 28 with 1920 views | Mullet |
Staff carpark etiquette on 17:56 - Sep 28 by bluelagos | Not be fun...for them or you? |
Both, I suspect they will insist it's my fault somehow! |  |
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Staff carpark etiquette on 18:07 - Sep 28 with 1886 views | NthQldITFC |
Staff carpark etiquette on 18:03 - Sep 28 by Mullet | Both, I suspect they will insist it's my fault somehow! |
Do you work for Daniel Hannan, by any chance? (The Conservative peer who's blaming Starmer for the collapse of the economy, for those of you who don't know or are somehow too busy to look up the clever meaning of one of my brilliant jokes!) |  |
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Staff carpark etiquette on 18:08 - Sep 28 with 1877 views | ronnyd |
Staff carpark etiquette on 17:56 - Sep 28 by bluelagos | Not be fun...for them or you? |
Depends on what sort of person they are and how he gets on with them i would imagine. |  | |  |
Staff carpark etiquette on 18:12 - Sep 28 with 1860 views | jeera |
Staff carpark etiquette on 18:07 - Sep 28 by NthQldITFC | Do you work for Daniel Hannan, by any chance? (The Conservative peer who's blaming Starmer for the collapse of the economy, for those of you who don't know or are somehow too busy to look up the clever meaning of one of my brilliant jokes!) |
Have a sympathy vote! |  |
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Staff carpark etiquette on 18:31 - Sep 28 with 1806 views | factual_blue |
Staff carpark etiquette on 18:07 - Sep 28 by NthQldITFC | Do you work for Daniel Hannan, by any chance? (The Conservative peer who's blaming Starmer for the collapse of the economy, for those of you who don't know or are somehow too busy to look up the clever meaning of one of my brilliant jokes!) |
Wasn't Daniel Hannan a mermaid in the film Splash! ? |  |
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Staff carpark etiquette on 18:55 - Sep 28 with 1753 views | clive_baker |
Staff carpark etiquette on 18:07 - Sep 28 by NthQldITFC | Do you work for Daniel Hannan, by any chance? (The Conservative peer who's blaming Starmer for the collapse of the economy, for those of you who don't know or are somehow too busy to look up the clever meaning of one of my brilliant jokes!) |
I always find the best jokes are the ones that need explaining As for Mullet, I think its a real dick move. These things happen, of course likely to be a genuine accident but highly unlikely you wouldn't realise if it's been done with sufficient force to leave a mark. I certainly would leave a note and / or ask around to see if I can find the owner. |  |
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Staff carpark etiquette on 19:03 - Sep 28 with 1710 views | ronnyd |
Staff carpark etiquette on 18:55 - Sep 28 by clive_baker | I always find the best jokes are the ones that need explaining As for Mullet, I think its a real dick move. These things happen, of course likely to be a genuine accident but highly unlikely you wouldn't realise if it's been done with sufficient force to leave a mark. I certainly would leave a note and / or ask around to see if I can find the owner. |
With insurance companies telling their clients to deny everything, it's no small wonder that this behaviour is, sadly, all too prevalent. |  | |  |
Staff carpark etiquette on 20:14 - Sep 28 with 1591 views | factual_blue |
Staff carpark etiquette on 18:03 - Sep 28 by Mullet | Both, I suspect they will insist it's my fault somehow! |
I daresay they'll be right then. |  |
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Staff carpark etiquette on 20:19 - Sep 28 with 1568 views | Swansea_Blue | Are you sure you didn’t park in the women only car park by mistake? Sorry Ryorry |  |
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Staff carpark etiquette on 20:29 - Sep 28 with 1545 views | Churchman | I would apologise, tell them and pay for the damage. Accidents happen. Simple. In my world, you pay what you owe. I’ve done it too. If the tool that did it, and I was absolutely certain it was that person, didn’t leave a note or tell me my choice would be confront them or run a nail down the side of their car, all four panels. Either would be fine by me - or both. [Post edited 28 Sep 2022 20:33]
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Staff carpark etiquette on 10:19 - Sep 29 with 1276 views | ArnoldMoorhen |
Staff carpark etiquette on 18:31 - Sep 28 by factual_blue | Wasn't Daniel Hannan a mermaid in the film Splash! ? |
I think he was a reporter in that film who watched the mermaids leave the sea and then return to it. He only had one line: "I counted them all out and I counted them all back in again." |  | |  |
Staff carpark etiquette on 10:36 - Sep 29 with 1232 views | RobTheMonk | Any CCTV available? When I as working at a school we had a Mum car door wallop a teachers car and then ignore the damage done and drive off. He wasn't impressed. |  | |  |
Staff carpark etiquette on 10:50 - Sep 29 with 1203 views | Ryorry |
Staff carpark etiquette on 20:19 - Sep 28 by Swansea_Blue | Are you sure you didn’t park in the women only car park by mistake? Sorry Ryorry |
Good apology, cos till I saw that bit of your post I was gonna find your wheels & deliver a fate similar to the blue camper van in Grizzly's post |  |
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Staff carpark etiquette on 11:28 - Sep 29 with 1161 views | strikalite | I wouldn't do or say anything, because they'll just deny it, unless you catch them in the act then sorry Mullet you just have to let it go, I know they're totally in the wrong and your blood is semi boiling but you just have to put it down to a annoying car par scrape and sort it the best way you can.. |  | |  |
Staff carpark etiquette on 11:30 - Sep 29 with 1145 views | FrimleyBlue | Find their coffee cup and.............................. |  |
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