We have only 3 outlets at work to charge. You must bring your cord from home. Folks stay parked there all day even when fully charged. Today I got there and parked but the outlets were taken. I left my cord next to the outlet for the person to plug me in when they were leaving. I come out a few hours later to see the original car gone and a leaf in its place CHARGING. No one plugged me up! years ago before EV were popular folks at my job always plugged you in if you left your cord. It’s a hospital and we work 12-14 hour days. Folks also use to move when fully charged. I want to leave a sign asking folks to please move when charged and if someone leaves their cord to plug them up when you leave. Am I crazy?
not at all, do you work in a psych ward? look on line for preprinted cards, and tal to management about signs and protocol
sad commentary about today's society. when they built our new parking garage; with parking sensors. they tripled the number of chargers and instituted a 4 hour limit. you'll get a ticket if you don't move it, so someone else can charge up. now the only problem is those a-holes that will unplug you, before your charge is complete. that's why the top of the line models will clampdown the plug, unless it sees a key fob.
Security cameras are really inexpensive these days. Either inside the car or outside in the parking facility.
I’m one who wouldn’t mess with anyone else’s car but I also don’t have your situation. It’s a slippery slope when people are expected to do things for other people. I also think there could be legal problems if they broke your connector or scratched your car while in the process. That’s why I personally would either make sure I got plugged in or just went without. But I also wouldn’t do the Jeep wave if I owned a Jeep so maybe that says something about me? Don’t know
Our facility employs over a thousand people, across 3 different shifts and run 24/7. While it's fairly easy to find these people; and you know it's the car parked on either side of you. There's really nothing you can legally do... Of course public shaming is no longer P.C. and not tolerated by social media sites. I know the people in parking services dept. and could've easily got a copy of the surveillance video; but life's too short - I figure Karma will sooner or later catch up with this person. About a year ago, someone stole a neighbors' kid's bike - kid left it on the front lawn. She posted the security camera footage asking people on nextdoor app for information on the individual and asked the bike to be returned, no questions asked. Nextdoor sent her a cease and desist order, claiming it was public shaming and a violation of their terms of use. She had to take down the surveillance video.
Your use of the term "order" makes it sound like some kind of legal document. Chances are GREAT that it was not......and she just knuckled under to a bluff. The TRUTH is almost always a good defense to an attack like that. I think the next step should have been to give the video to the Police and file a theft complaint. The perpetrator shouldn't be able to bully their way out of that.
You have a tail pipe. BEVs do not, so that should figure into the etiquette matrix as well. You cannot force somebody to be courteous, nor should you let incidents like the one described above keep you from BEING courteous. See if the folks who own the charger can put up a simple charging etiquette sign....or better yet....volunteer to design and place one there yourself. Good Luck.
Considering also that ND doesn't need to give orders for someone to take things down, their community moderators can and do take down non-conforming content themselves ...
And also DEFINE what "non-conforming" means on a case by case basis, no doubt. If you are caught committing a criminal act, is "public shaming" really a bad thing ??
