Once per week or so I go to a certain shopping area for lunch, where there are five or six restaurants. In the last few weeks I’ve noticed that a gaggle of Comcast workers are frequenting the the same area – I’ll see anywhere from 4 to 8 Comcast trucks/vans in a given restaurant’s parking lot. Each vehicle is backed into its parking spot. So far, so good. The kicker is that in front of each vehicle is a traffic cone. (Sometimes the cone is dead-center, sometimes it’s off to the side a bit.) Why on EARTH is this deemed necessary in a parking lot? What do they think they are warning about, protecting against, etc.? It’s not like anyone would inadvertently park in front of them, blocking their exit, or that the vehicle is oversized, etc. I can’t imagine what purpose someone thinks this serves. Ideas?
It’s a company regulation to make sure they walk around their vehicles before moving them, so they see any people or obstacles in the way that they may have forgotten about. The phone company and PG&E do it out here too.
I have heard that the company fines them if they are caught parked without the cone, or if they come back to the office without it.
I work for a utility and we are required to absolutely always cone, for the reason Cowgirl Jules stated. This applies even in our own parking lots. The public hates us enough, without us running over their pets or small children. It is annoying, but a good rule.
I think the cones are free samples, and you can take one or two.
I like this idea. They’re handy for marking your house for the pizza delivery guy.
Given the post about the fines for returning without the cones, man, I love this idea!