Originally Posted by phil15241

I'm an engineering intern and I recently started to commute to work. I've fallen in love with it. Everyday when I get in to work, I store my bike in the coat room (since no one wears coats in July) and I clean up and start work. However, today my supervisor told me that a factory worker complained to management that I was putting my bike in the coat room. The factory worker complained because he thought that I was breaking the rules by putting my bike in the unused coat room and that I was doing something that he couldn't get away with. There is a bike rack outside, but in my time here, I have never seen a bike parked there, and I've talked to people who have been working for the company for over a decade and they said that they have never seen a bike there. So why not leave the bike outside? Well the thing is, I built this bike last summer and I've grown very attached to it. If something happened to it, it would just be very sad for me (and also my wallet).

The thing that really confuses me is why the factory worker complained. He has nothing to gain! It just disturbs me that someone would go out of their way and spend their time and energy to take things away from others. Am I technically not allowed to store a bike in the coat room? Yes. Am I technically in the wrong? Yes. But the fact that no one commutes to my work by bike (except for me) and the fact that I was not harming anything really upsets me. The most wrong anyone did in this situation was cause trouble for others when they themselves had nothing to gain. Anyways that's my rant. Hope you all have better luck than I do. Ride On.