Disarming The Situation

We handled a lot of cash, so every morning, and sometimes two to three times throughout the day, an armored van would arrive and deliver change or pick up the safe contents.

Due to the health-related nature of our business, we have a lot of customers who use the disabled parking spots. There were only three for the whole building, yet the morning armored truck driver would always be sure to pull his van up sideways across all three spots.

The morning delivery took the longest, which often meant customers would arrive and not be able to use those parking spots. After asking the driver not to do this anymore, I was told to call his boss if I had a problem.

His boss said if I had a problem, I had to handle it myself.

So I did.

The parking enforcement sent two people to our location, and when he pulled his van into place as usual across all three spots, they pulled an enforcement car up on either side of him and wrote him a total of five infractions.

Shortly after we switched companies, which was probably unrelated, but I secretly think it was the small shame they felt inside after being jerks about something we all know better than to do ourselves.