Why is the Parking Authority sooooo bad at their jobs?

Submitted by Interesting-Stop-920 t3_yf34hx in pittsburgh

We all came to the office for the first time in two and a half years to have a quarterly meeting so I parked behind the office and paid for eight and a half hours of parking via the app. I verified the lot number posted on the lot with the one on the app.

I came out about 6 hours later to put my laptop in the car cuz we were heading down the street for drinks paid for by the company. And I see I have an expired meter parking ticket on my windshield.

These parking meter people are so lazy that if you don't have a receipt on your dash they'll just throw a ticket without checking your system to see if he even paid. And to top it off they put down a five character license plate number which mine has the typical 7 characters and the fifth character did not even line up with the fifth character in my license plate.

Like how can you be sooooo lazy and terrible at your job?

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Anotherburner42069 t1_iu1o3wp wrote

Sounds like that ticket isn't your problem since it doesn't match your plate number. (Not legal advice lol)

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Eastern-Mongoose-712 t1_iu1op2m wrote

They typed in the wrong plate, and whatever they typed in didn't have a paid meter so they wrote a ticket. The plate the ticket is issued to isn't your plate, so I'm pretty sure you're safe and can ignore it. I think there's a way to look up parking tickets online if you wanna be extra sure.

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IrrumaboMalum t1_iu32m3g wrote

I had a similar situation with a vanity plate. My old plate was xxxxxNA (Navy vet plate). They wrote a ticket for plate xxxxx - I ignored it. Never heard anything about it.

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GuavaShaper t1_iu29wi7 wrote

Maybe somebody took the ticket off their own car and put it on OP's car? Either way, sounds like it's not your problem OP. (also not legal advice)

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sceptic03 t1_iu1sl98 wrote

Where was this at? Also can confirm since my friend works with them in the finance dept that there are no receipts to put on the dashboard so that doesnt even make sense

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sceptic03 t1_iu1swwq wrote

Also if it doesnt match your plate, simply dont pay.

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tesla3by3 t1_iu1tzbj wrote

Probably an automated license plate reader that misread your plate. You should call them and explain what happenedYou have a record of the payment in the app, if they somehow associated the bad plate number with your vehicle you can contest it.

Also, dash receipts aren't used here. And when you call them, be nice. Calling them lazy and terrible at their job won't help you.

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Interesting-Stop-920 OP t1_iu1vejp wrote

I called to contest, they said you can only do it online which I did.

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kawey22 t1_iu1yfmh wrote

Yeah good luck with the online thing. They didn’t even email me back

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meresithea t1_iu40uz2 wrote

Same thing happened to me. I contested the ticket using the process outlined on the ticket and sent in screenshots of my parking receipt from the app, the emails I got saying I paid for parking and the texts I got sayin my parking session had started (I. Was. So. Mad.). The ticket got thrown out, so if you follow the process to contest the ticket you’ll be fine.

Edited for typos

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Odd_Description_2295 t1_iu1qwcu wrote

Probably cuz their jobs are shitty and underpaid.

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konsyr t1_iu6wh75 wrote

Their job serves no productive benefit to society and should be eliminated. (Along with the parking space.)

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probably_art t1_iu27zdk wrote

How close was it? I’ve known people to put THEIR ticket on someone else’s windshield in the hopes that the person just pays it without cross checking

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Interesting-Stop-920 OP t1_iu2c2tm wrote

The 4 digits are identical, the 5th digit is wrong and missing the 6th and 7th digit.

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PuzzledKale2841 t1_iu2gkak wrote

The people who work the parking authority are a bunch of miserable shits.

I don’t envy their job.

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ricksebak t1_iu1n6ic wrote

What is the desired outcome of this post?

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chad4359 t1_iu1qryu wrote

This is r/Pittsburgh so I am going with just to bitch and moan

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johnsonchicklet1993 t1_iu41xw5 wrote

This spring I literally got a ticket while I was standing in line to pay at the kiosk in Schenley park. Luckily I got it overturned by providing evidence that I paid (even though I didn’t take my receipt). Still pissed me off pretty good.

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fatgirlnspandex t1_iu4bs85 wrote

Government job with a union making the employees untouchable. So much bureaucracy that when the people are fired they are still there for a year. Also that gives them time to appeal.

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TheOneTrueSuperJesus t1_iu42im7 wrote

I recently had a ticket on my car for not having a permit in a permit parking area... outside my apartment that I mostly certainly have a permit for. Description of the car matched my car but upon looking at the license plate it was a completely different plate number no where close to mine. Additionally when I searched the plate online it was linked to a completely different brand of vehicle. I don't know how they messed up that bad, I definetely agree that the parking authority is generally just terrible at their jobs.

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thatburghfan t1_iu28hy0 wrote

>Like how can you be sooooo lazy and terrible at your job?

These people got those jobs through political connections. Skill wasn't a factor.

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tesla3by3 t1_iu2byn4 wrote

Those are shitty jobs. No one is handling them out as political favors.

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thatburghfan t1_iu2p9ow wrote

I say that because a friend who I know for a fact got a "shitty job" in the county office building because of political connections, told me he considered getting one of his sons a PPA job but the son ended up landing a job at a store instead.

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tesla3by3 t1_iu2r8ng wrote

Ya kinda proved my point. The fact that getting a job at a store is more desirable is telling.

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OnceBug t1_iu1i36n wrote

Sounds like they're doing pretty good at their job of giving tickets. Contest it and move on.

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Interesting-Stop-920 OP t1_iu1ikux wrote

Here I thought their job was to write violations for people who try to not pay for parking or let their meter expire? I guess giving people who currently pay for their parking invalid tickets works too?

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OnceBug t1_iu1kntk wrote

Tickets a ticket, gotta hit that quota or whatever

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ryuks_apple t1_iu1lk9c wrote

Yeah, why shouldn't the government waste our time for no reason?

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GoodBadDontHelp t1_iu1hbl7 wrote

Well they don’t really hire people that are competent, they focus on people that are willing to deliver “justice”. They hire people that want to write tickets for people. They hire people who need the power that comes with writing a ticket for someone, so there’s no intelligence needed

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GoodBadDontHelp t1_iu2rr1c wrote

Imagine if a cop got rejected from the academy. Cadet I guess. They still need to get their power fix, they can’t become a cop so they find another way to get their power fix.

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Interesting-Stop-920 OP t1_iu1io2h wrote

I get that but they literally have a handheld device where they can put in somebody's license plate number and see if they have an active meter...just lazy...

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