Clark believes that parking politics at the office builds walls between management and employees. CareerJournal.com recently ran an article that dissected the hierarchies used to determine
who gets what reserved space. Companies that give preferred parking spaces to executives are sending the message to employees that they're chumps, according to Clark. He makes no bones about saying that management at the WSB studio is still in the Neanderthal era with its reserved parking policy. But things could be worse. Clark recently was at a multi-tenant office building toward the end of the business day and there were hundreds of empty spaces available. Unfortunately he couldn't use one because they were all reserved until 5 p.m., 6 p.m., 7 p.m. or 24 hours/day depending on how important the person was. The issue of parking at work is one that really gets people fired up. If it seems trite and trivial, realize that it gives you insight into whether or not management values its employees.