Stellantis Slaps Parking Tickets On Employees' Cars For Not Being Stellantis Enough

If you activity for Stellantis, and don't want to locomotion astatine slightest half an hr from your car to your desk, you amended thrust a Stellantis vehicle. According to nan Wall Street Journal, if you don't, your other benignant of car will beryllium relegated to inferior parking lots, adding a fewer 1000 steps to your greeting and day commutes each day. If you neglect to heed nan firm informing signs, and do parkland your outsider's car successful a designated Stellantis conveyance lot, you'll beryllium ticketed. So if you activity for America's 3rd astir celebrated car giant, you mightiness want to cheque retired those firm lease deals. 

Parking batch information is said to beryllium beautiful lenient, and won't springiness fines correct away. But if you do get ticketed, and you support racking 'em up by parking successful tons you aren't expected to, information will put a instrumentality footwear connected your car. And having it removed it will require a little than enjoyable telephone call.

There's a subreddit dedicated to folks who activity for Stellantis, and they often station and remark astir nan non-Stellantis conveyance parking tickets. Understandably, immoderate are large huffy astir it. "Sorry I didn't fto y'all dictate nan 2nd biggest financial determination of my life past clip I checked this was a workplace not a f*cking cult," said 1 employee. That aforesaid worker besides said that they'd bargain a Stellantis product, but the institution doesn't person an affordable two-seat sports car anymore. Other labor understand nan policy, moreover if they don't for illustration it, and conscionable travel nan rules. 

I do wonderment what counts arsenic a Stellantis product, though. One worker posted that their Eagle Talon was ticketed, contempt Eagle having been portion of Chrysler backmost successful its day. That's an understandable correction by security, though, arsenic Eagle isn't precisely a beloved classical brand. However, it does bring up immoderate curiosities. Alfa Romeo is portion of Stellantis, but wasn't always. So what if an worker shows up successful an aged Alfa that was built agelong earlier nan 2 brands were related? 

Stellantis isn't nan only marque from Detroit marque to person had specified policies, moreover if it mightiness beryllium nan only 1 enforcing it astatine nan moment. Ford and GM person been known to employment versions of nan aforesaid policy, to support their ain branded vehicles connected their lots, but Ford told WSJ that it doesn't person designated parking for non-Ford cars. (It decidedly utilized to, though.)

It's besides legal, too. Steve Lehto, a consumer-protections lawyer successful Michigan, told WSJ that Stellantis is legally allowed to discriminate against different car brands successful its parking lots. He besides warned workers that parking your non-Stellantis car successful nan incorrect spot could mostly beryllium a bad idea. "If you parkland a overseas car successful nan lot, bad things mightiness hap to it," he said. "Not a summons — conscionable bad things." 

Hey, astatine slightest Stellantis tries to thief by offering incentives for buying its cars. In Stellantis occupation listings connected LinkedIn, it claims: "Eligible labor and their contiguous families tin participate successful nan institution conveyance lease program, providing entree to Stellantis vehicles pinch insurance, maintenance, and unlimited miles included. Plus, return advantage of exclusive discounts connected Stellantis products." I don't cognize precisely really adjuvant that worker car programme is, aliases who counts arsenic eligible employees, but it's amended than nothing, I guess.