Paying For Parking

Hello fellow Paras :) I am wondering if any of you that has had to pay for parking before has had any luck with your firm changing its policy? What kind of points did you bring up for argument? The firm I work at is extremely old school. The current policy is that you have to work here for 15 years before the firm will pay for your parking pass. To me, that is absolutely insane! This policy has probably been this way for 40+ years now! It is not usually the norm anymore for someone to stay at a job that long to eventually get this “perk.”The cost is 120.00 a month. The attorneys get their parking passes paid for the moment they walk in the door because they are an ATTORNEY and you’re just STAFF. If you do not want to pay for the parking pass, you can park on the street but that is usually always full and you have to move your car every 4 hours. This is also in a downtown city in ND so it’s extra crappy to park in the street in the winter and with the snow. I have tried so hard to get the Board to change the policy but they will not budge! This is the only firm downtown that I know of, that doesn’t pay for employee parking. I think it makes this firm look extremely bad! Can you imagine working somewhere for 14 years and paying all that money and then some newbie attorney fresh out of law school walks in and gets free parking BECAUSE THEY ARE AN ATTORNEY?

Has anyone had this situation before and how did you handle it?

Oh, and the other funny part is if I were hand in my parking pass today, the firm would take over paying for it while the pass just sits in a desk drawer because they don’t want to lose any of the limited spots they have passes for.