Originally Posted by
pdlamb
It's varied by location. When I worked at my company office, I was allowed to park the bike in my office (best case). At customer sites, a couple had "wheel bender" racks (worst case), I parked in a stair well for a while, and advocated for bike lockers and got some bike shelters at a new site.
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the best social acceptance. Curiosity was always there; "did you ride your bike in TODAY when it's so hot/cold/rainy?" Well, yes. It's what I almost always do.
Thanks for typing all this up for me!
Wow, a nice, parallel world we've been commuting in!
At my current place of 22 years, I initially joined a handful of others and brought my bike in the 14 story building, competing with folks on the elevator going up to my 12th floor cube. My bike was parked alongside my cube in a wide aisle. One day someone from security came hollering at me, "I finally found you! Bikes aren't allowed in the building! They're a fire hazard!" I dumped my diatribe into an email and sent it to my manager just to vent and move on. There were no racks outside, which meant having to secure it to whatever we could find.
A week later, I got an email from my manager saying that 10 bike lockers were being installed on the patio outside an employee entrance. He had sent my email up the chain to our VP and well....
I've been working from home for four years now. A year ago when I had to drive to the mothership for some reason, I noticed the (then) 20 bike lockers were gone.