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Ycantpark
Michael I dug up these regulations because recently a police car drove up to the Yahoo parking lot and issued hefty fines to all the cars parked in disabled parking spaces without a disabled permit. They're not cheap; each one cost about 300 dollars! I can, of course, only laugh about these problems because I almost always ride my bike or take the shuttle bus provided by Yahoo! to work.
Yahoo! has hired so many people in recent years that the parking situation is sometimes a bit tense. If you arrive at the parking lot after 10 a.m., you often can't find a parking space anymore and have to either go to the valet parker (Rundbrief 06/1999) or to a slightly more distant alternative parking lot. Naturally, it annoys us Yahoos when some people take up two parking spaces by parking carelessly, thereby worsening the situation through their negligence.
In the age of ever-present cell phone cameras, the culprits are therefore immediately photographed and uploaded to the image service Flickr, which was purchased by Yahoo!, under the tag "ycantpark" and relentlessly exposed on the internet. A hell of a fun! These issues are then often extensively discussed on the company's internal mailing lists. For example, some parking spaces are marked as "Compact," and only small cars should be parked there, not monster SUVs. If someone does park an SUV there, people get really upset! Normally, for parking violations at Yahoo!, you receive an internal ticket (illustration 1) that doesn't cost anything. However, as mentioned, recently the police showed up, and there was a rude awakening for many who parked incorrectly.
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