22 April 2013

Monday parking adventures

22 April 2013 | Barcham

It’s Monday, and that means I have to dig through the GAZILLIONS of photos you guys have sent in.

If you are one of the few people in Canberra who have not sent me a parking photo this week and would like to, email us your pictures to images@the-riotact.com.

Make sure to include the word ‘parking’ in your subject and let us know what you’d like to be credited as.

1. Ryan is going to kick us off this week:

The grey car is parked in a taxi zone, the maroon car is ok because it is only half in a no stopping zone

2. Alex has been keeping his eyes on the Garbos:

Garbage truck is parked across empty spots while hopeful drivers wait. Only a four minute wait, but a working man needs his coffee, right?

3. Reprobate spotted this enthusiastic shopper:

I took this last Thursday at the Hyperdome. The NSW rego’d Golf GTi was parked beside motorcycle parking spaces and in front of the trolley ramp, with heaps of vacant proper parks around.

4. Peter found these close friends:

Taken this afternoon (Monday 15 April, ~17.30) on Bunda St

Notable for two items:

– that the two small cars are in one space; and
– the green car has diplomatic plates, so its not just the local bogans, its foreign ones as well

4. A different Ryan noticed this ute with personal space issues:

The south side has some ‘winners’ in the good parking sweeps also.

5. ThisIsAName has been staking out the ADFA car parks:

I spotted this cluster of parking attempts all in a single section of
an ADFA carpark. May you enjoy 🙂

This one was from Easter, taken sometime around the late afternoon if I recall properly. Despite there being some spare spots, both these avoided the ‘No stopping sign near a corner to utilise some larger “parking space”

6. Allen sent us this collection:

Mum’s Taxi perhaps?

Yep, parked across the driveway, love a challenge while I drive haha

Do morons travel in packs?

I’m sure they tried their hardest… Judging by the amount of damage on this car, driving definitely isn’t their thing .

Parked for 40+ minutes in the drop off zone at the airport, a ticket well earned

Pretty epic effort, free carparks to the right but he parked it there and went on inside.

….wow

Majura dons house . I’m on fire haha

Out the side of gungahlin college… Awesomeeeee effort

7. An anonymous Rioter sent us this magnificent park:

This d-bag parked in the narrowest bit of a street in Crace.

8. Kate caught this great piece of Government parking:

This was taken this morning in our Parkes car park, creative parking is not an uncommon sight in the parliamentary triangle!

9. Poptop has been doing an extensive study into hospital carparks:

My contributions to Bad Parking Monday – from the little parking lot outside the Walk-in Clinic on Sunday morning. Apparently parking signs don’t count at the hospital.

10. Anonymous managed to find the time to catch us this shot:

From the Alive gym in Narrabundah. There were lots of awesome efforts this morning but I was running late for a class and only had time to snap one of them. We were tempted to squeeze our little car in next to it just for giggles but decided that would only screw over well-parked Bluey.

11. Flyinghurts is brought down by this shot:

Parking earnst and young carpark style.

One of the worst parks I’ve seen in that carpark

12. Dilandach gives this park an F:

This was in the underground parking at gungahlin, the A on the wall is for row ‘A’ and certainly not ‘A’ for parking effort.

13. Milkknife has an odd name, and has spotted an odd park:

Belconnen Mall – Saturday Afternoon, 4:30pm… A Smart Car that can park anywhere does not make it smart to park anywhere.

14. John spotted this classic style poor parking effort:

Blind commissioner was at the national museum. Another great car parking attempt by a local.

15. Brian gave us this pretty picture:

16. Jason found his path blocked:

This is why we can’t have nice footpaths – Woden Sunday morning market

17. Mothy was unimpressed with this terrible driver:

This one was spotted at the Zoo on April 6th. Champion had blocked the footpath in the middle of the carpark because they couldn’t be arsed parking further down the car park where there were 10+ spaces available. Meant dodging traffic with the pram for the length of the carpark rather than being able to use this path to cut through.

18. Finally our great and illustrious leader Johnboy came across this park during his nightly crime-fighting patrols of Dickson:

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Pork Hunt7:38 pm 23 Apr 13

devils_advocate said :

Jungle Jim said :

I think you both need to check your math.

80 hours per week isn’t that hard to achieve if you continue to work from home after hours – or punch 16 hours a day 5 days a week in the office. That being said, I can’t think of anything much sadder than spending 16 hours a day behind a desk, regardless of the pay.

OK let’s assume the most generous interpretations, i.e. that mandated breaks are included as ‘work’ (or these breaks are spent at the desk) and the 16 hours refers to the time you enter the door to the time you leave, regardless of what you’re actually doing.

Even so, this rarely happens 24/7. People may punch in big hours on ocassion or for a few weeks but the ones who do this day in day out are the exception rather than the rule.

Most of the SES I worked with had families and were past the point of needing to prove themselves by doing ridiculous hours. The people who did 16+ days were generally working in minister’s officers and were EL1’s or EL2’s, (or MOPS), not SES staff.

In any case, the fact that a handful of idiots choose to spend their waking hours at the office does not support generalisations made.

Nor does it support a PARKING THREAD!!!!

devils_advocate5:13 pm 23 Apr 13

Jungle Jim said :

I think you both need to check your math.

80 hours per week isn’t that hard to achieve if you continue to work from home after hours – or punch 16 hours a day 5 days a week in the office. That being said, I can’t think of anything much sadder than spending 16 hours a day behind a desk, regardless of the pay.

OK let’s assume the most generous interpretations, i.e. that mandated breaks are included as ‘work’ (or these breaks are spent at the desk) and the 16 hours refers to the time you enter the door to the time you leave, regardless of what you’re actually doing.

Even so, this rarely happens 24/7. People may punch in big hours on ocassion or for a few weeks but the ones who do this day in day out are the exception rather than the rule.

Most of the SES I worked with had families and were past the point of needing to prove themselves by doing ridiculous hours. The people who did 16+ days were generally working in minister’s officers and were EL1’s or EL2’s, (or MOPS), not SES staff.

In any case, the fact that a handful of idiots choose to spend their waking hours at the office does not support generalisations made.

Jungle Jim3:52 pm 23 Apr 13

Pitchka said :

devils_advocate said :

Pitchka said :

devils_advocate said :

poetix said :

And an 80+ hour week.

I LOL’d

I guarentee you my SES does in excess of 80 hours per week.

You should LOL at his SES band 3 salary, its probably 4 times the size of yours, for double the hours worked..! I think he is having the last laugh!

He works more than 11 hours a day, every day, no weekends or lunchbreaks. Or 20 hours a day monday to friday.

Really?

Not quite 80, but he does 12 hour days/ 5 days a week, 70 hours is close enough, double to what most other PS’s do.

I think you both need to check your math.

80 hours per week isn’t that hard to achieve if you continue to work from home after hours – or punch 16 hours a day 5 days a week in the office. That being said, I can’t think of anything much sadder than spending 16 hours a day behind a desk, regardless of the pay.

Pitchka3:39 pm 23 Apr 13

devils_advocate said :

Pitchka said :

devils_advocate said :

poetix said :

And an 80+ hour week.

I LOL’d

I guarentee you my SES does in excess of 80 hours per week.

You should LOL at his SES band 3 salary, its probably 4 times the size of yours, for double the hours worked..! I think he is having the last laugh!

He works more than 11 hours a day, every day, no weekends or lunchbreaks. Or 20 hours a day monday to friday.

Really?

Not quite 80, but he does 12 hour days/ 5 days a week, 70 hours is close enough, double to what most other PS’s do.

devils_advocate3:09 pm 23 Apr 13

Pitchka said :

devils_advocate said :

poetix said :

And an 80+ hour week.

I LOL’d

I guarentee you my SES does in excess of 80 hours per week.

You should LOL at his SES band 3 salary, its probably 4 times the size of yours, for double the hours worked..! I think he is having the last laugh!

He works more than 11 hours a day, every day, no weekends or lunchbreaks. Or 20 hours a day monday to friday.

Really?

p13:04 pm 23 Apr 13

devils_advocate said :

poetix said :

And an 80+ hour week.

I LOL’d

I really hope that, should I ever be stupid enough to fill an SES position, it is at one of the departments where they spend all day in the pool with models – rather then the couple of departments I have worked in, where they tend work way more then the 40ish they are technically employed for.

Say what you want about the quality of the work (I have met some fn useless SES), but I have yet to meet one who gets in late and leaves early every day.

Pitchka2:39 pm 23 Apr 13

devils_advocate said :

poetix said :

And an 80+ hour week.

I LOL’d

I guarentee you my SES does in excess of 80 hours per week.

You should LOL at his SES band 3 salary, its probably 4 times the size of yours, for double the hours worked..! I think he is having the last laugh!

devils_advocate1:26 pm 23 Apr 13

poetix said :

And an 80+ hour week.

I LOL’d

poetix12:49 pm 23 Apr 13

Flyinghurts said :

…

Also, it’s my understanding that SES folks usually get reserved car spots. One of the perks of the job in addition to a healthy salary, an executive assistant and a phone.

And an 80+ hour week.

Ben_Dover10:03 am 23 Apr 13

Curse you RiotAct!!!

This morning at 7.40am I was at Bunnings Belco, getting some stuff. I abandoned my car randomly in the empty car park. Then, (knowing my f*ck*ng luck,) I thought some Rioter would come along and snap it, and send it in. The thought of the shame made me maneuver it into proper position!

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