Household worker parking

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Park in the damn road. It's a public road and nobody else owns those spots.

Wait, you think I am a worker complaining why my client isn't allowing me to park closer to their home? Class entitlement?
You think you are better than me if I happen to be a worker working on your house?

[Anonymous]

Our nanny and house cleaner park on the street. We mostly work from home so we often need our car for errands on our lunch break. Our nanny would need to move her car for that. Even on the days we’re in the office, we obviously can’t leave until she arrives, and she can’t leave before we return home. So again, she’d need to move her car so we could get ours in/out of the garage.

We try to be gone when our house is being cleaned, but sometimes we are still getting ready to leave when she arrives, or we get home before she’s done. So if she parked in the driveway, she’d need to stop what she was doing and move her car.

[Anonymous]

If it's a plumber with a toolbag they can park on the street here. If it's an elaborate job with ladders, pumps etc. like gutter cleaning or pond cleaning I take the car out and park on the street night before so they can use our single driveway.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Park in the damn road. It's a public road and nobody else owns those spots.

It's not always true.. Really depends on the area, zoning, neighborhood, setting, presence of absence of sidewalk, HOA, etc. By means of doing work to their property they can render public parking unusable. The can expand their driveway within the limit allowed (from single to double) and take space away from public parking. They can change the landscaping making parking in front of it very uncomfortable, they can also park their own vehicles there all the time as they'd always get first dibs, etc.

In other words, as a worker I cannot rely on there always being a parking in front of the nearest neighbor. What will you do? Make me schlep my stuff longer distances to avoid "contaminating" your highness driveway with my low end car?

[Anonymous]

That hasn't been my experience, they always park in our driveway.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Our nanny and house cleaner park on the street. We mostly work from home so we often need our car for errands on our lunch break. Our nanny would need to move her car for that. Even on the days we’re in the office, we obviously can’t leave until she arrives, and she can’t leave before we return home. So again, she’d need to move her car so we could get ours in/out of the garage.

We try to be gone when our house is being cleaned, but sometimes we are still getting ready to leave when she arrives, or we get home before she’s done. So if she parked in the driveway, she’d need to stop what she was doing and move her car.

I am not talking about people with single driveways. I am talking about those who do have space in their driveway to get their vehicle out

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They should never park in the driveway unless explicitly told it's okay to do so.

They are working on YOUR house. Do you also not allow your guests to park in your driveway, like when your kid's friend's mom brings their kid of a playdate or you have a friend over?

Nope. Parking in someone's driveway is beyond rude unless you've told them it's ok to do so. Dropping a kid off? Sure, pull in the driveway. You're staying? Park on the street.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Can someone explain to me why people who come in to work on someone's house (housecleaners, landscapers, organizers/decorators, pet/babysitters, etc, etc) do not park in the driveways of the houses they work in? I get it if a house has only a narrow single driveway and you don't want to be coordinating moving the cars, but many of these homes have double driveways, 2-3 car garages and there is no way worker's vehicles would interfere with their ability to go in and out.

Is this some sort of a "class/hierarchy" thing? Is this what workers prefer? Why, especially given they often have to schlep something in/out of the house.

Because the homeowner did not offer them to park there.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They should never park in the driveway unless explicitly told it's okay to do so.

They are working on YOUR house. Do you also not allow your guests to park in your driveway, like when your kid's friend's mom brings their kid of a playdate or you have a friend over?

Nope. Parking in someone's driveway is beyond rude unless you've told them it's ok to do so. Dropping a kid off? Sure, pull in the driveway. You're staying? Park on the street.

I agree with this. I have never parked in someone elses garage unless they specifically told me too.

[Anonymous]

All the housecleaners on my street park in their client's driveways. It's easier than parking on our narrow one way street. Perhaps if it was the reverse, they'd park in the street, as a courtesy.

[Anonymous]

Simple for us - need for both cars to get in and out of the garage.

[Anonymous]

I know it's against company policy for my pool maintenance guy to park his truck in my driveway.

[Anonymous]

Not a domestic worker but if I visit I park on the street because I don’t like backing out of driveways into the street (I live in a building with a parking lot so I am not used to it and o don’t want to).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Park in the damn road. It's a public road and nobody else owns those spots.

Wait, you think I am a worker complaining why my client isn't allowing me to park closer to their home? Class entitlement?
You think you are better than me if I happen to be a worker working on your house?

Class entitlement? Well one of us is cleaning my crap stains off my toilet.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Can someone explain to me why people who come in to work on someone's house (housecleaners, landscapers, organizers/decorators, pet/babysitters, etc, etc) do not park in the driveways of the houses they work in? I get it if a house has only a narrow single driveway and you don't want to be coordinating moving the cars, but many of these homes have double driveways, 2-3 car garages and there is no way worker's vehicles would interfere with their ability to go in and out.

Is this some sort of a "class/hierarchy" thing? Is this what workers prefer? Why, especially given they often have to schlep something in/out of the house.

We have a double wide driveway and a two car garage. Someone parking in our driveway would 100% interfere with our ability to come and go.

You don't seem very smart OP.