Brilliant Car Park Attendant

NCMan



Joined: 19/09/2009
Posts: 670

Message Posted:
03/11/2010 10:04

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Great example of working smart not hard!!















From The London Times: A Well-Planned Retirement

A perfect example of government mismanagement.







Outside England 's Bristol Zoo there is a parking lot for 150 cars and 8 buses. For 25 years, it's parking fees were managed by a very pleasant attendant. The fees were for cars (£1.40), for buses (about £7).

Then, one day, after 25 solid years of never missing a day off work, he just didn't show up; so the Zoo Management called the City Council and asked it to send them another parking agent.



The Council did some research and replied that the parking lot was the Zoo's own responsibility.



The Zoo advised the Council that the attendant was a City employee.



The City Council responded that the lot attendant had never been on the City payroll.



Meanwhile, sitting in his villa somewhere on the coast of Spain or Fra

rigsby


Joined: 21/09/2007
Posts: 912

Message Posted:
03/11/2010 10:08

Another urban myth,sorry NCMan.

yenibob


Joined: 13/10/2010
Posts: 1203

Message Posted:
03/11/2010 10:12

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