Originally Posted by
ggosson
I don't get it... You are complaining about publicly available bike rack located in a high traffic area in broad daylight? And you want a special, safer place to park employee bikes inside the mall somewhere? How would that look to the general public, who might also be riding some $1200 bike to the mall? You said the public parking is good enough for people who are in the mall for 1-2 hours. Since it can take seconds for a bike to get stolen by someone who knows what they are doing, how is that kind of parking fair for the general populace and not good enough for you? Won't the progressive hipsters in the Apple store you work at let you park your bike in the back room?
Why are we Americans always so arrogant that rules meant for the common folk are certainly not meant to inconvienence we privledged few?
Americans are the only people that are arrogant or self-centered. Not a single person outside the US has ever been self-centered or arrogant. Troll much?
Anyway, lets think about some numbers for a moment. Let's assume that the more time your bike is left locked to a bike rack, the more likely it is to get stolen. If I go to the mall once a month for 1 hour, that puts my bike in harms way 1/720 (assuming 30 days a month, 24 hours a day). So my bike is left unattended at the mall for 0.139% of the time. Basically a bike thief has to be really lucky picking the right time, day, and location to steal my bike (even if it only takes a few minutes to steal). If I work there 5 days a week for 10 hours at a time, that puts my bike at risk 214/720. That means that 29.7% of the time, my bike is at risk for being stolen...this does not include any additional weighting for hours of darkness, which may make it easier for a thief to operate.
So, based on this logic, an employee's bike is two orders of magnitude more likely to get stolen. And from this, I would conclude that a normal bike rack would be sufficient for the masses that show up only for a few hours a month, but for a someone who works there, a more secure option would reduce this risk dramatically.
It's not being arrogant, it's being practical.