ranss12
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I work for a British company with a significant presence here in the USA. At our local plant here in Rochester I kept working on management in a lighthearted manner for months, asking when I was going to get a place to plug in and 'how that plug was coming along'. In fact, it became a bit of a running joke at meetings that whenever we were asked about concerns, issues, or whatever, everyone would look at me waiting for my comment about plugging in at work. In December we had one of those 'anonymous' employee satisfaction surveys. I don't think mine was very anonymous because in the comments section I wrote a paragraph about how "many progressive companies allow their employees to plug in at work". Since I have the only electric vehicle at this site, it wouldn't take a rocket scientist to figure out who handed that survey in. At a subsequent employee meeting, we were told that our CEO over in Bath (UK) reads every comment on those surveys. About a month after that, the factory manager said that if I needed to plug in, he'd find a location, which he did. That has been very helpful this winter - I can actually use the LEAF's heater on my 60 mile commute. I just wonder if word came down from the CEO to the plant manager to find a way to let me charge while at work. The moral of the story - persistence pays off.