Thank God I live in M1, all of the fulltime concierges in M1 are ubber friendly and helpfull. even the weekend ones are cool. Sorry for your troubles M2. but yea My concierges let me park outside overnight with no problems and they do warn us that if we park on the M2 side we might get a ticket.
Alright everyone, let's calm down for a second here... There is almost no difference between M1 and M2 security. Same company, the people are completely interchangeable... Like Flaco, when you get that warning from your guard, it's not because the M2 guard is a douche. It's because the M1 guard isn't bothering to coordinate with them. They each take responsibility for their own respective side. On the M2 side, if you're not here long enough, they'll just take a vague description of your car, and the suite you're visiting and let you know if you've stayed too long (if they didn't bother giving you a pass because you told them you wouldn't be here long). So it's either a case of your guard being overprotective, or our guard being laissez-faire to not bother with that warning.
The day guard in M2 is Doreen. That's her name. I had one bad incident the first time I met her (which was really just a case of construction problems), and she has been nothing but friendly and helpful since then. If there's one thing she has different than all the other guards, it's that she spends most of her shift right across the lobby from Mauro the manager. She's done at 4 and he's done at 5. I've had an evening guard tell me how miserable that 1 hour can be for them with Mauro breathing down their backs. Though I'm very happy with how the building has been run, so I won't complain about him either. But if she's ticketing you in the daytime (and like I said before, it's just a building ticket and not a city ticket, right?), it's probably because Mauro makes her.
I don't ever really meet the M1 security (besides 1 who I have a lot of mutual friends with), but I really like the bunch we have now in M2. Matt has done a great job trying to get to know everyone. When I was chatting with him the other day, he had people come in and ask for parking passes, and he knew so many people which suites they were going to - not just residents, but their usual guests. Doreen was very helpful when I was first moving in, being patient when I had deliveries and hadn't registered yet, and also made sure to remember who my parents were so she wouldn't have to call up to let them in if they were just parking here to go downtown. Mohammed, ??Vandy?? (the Indian woman), Eric... No complaints whatsoever. Heck, I'm glad to see Eric still here because his 2nd shift in our building was during the blackout, and a month later he had to deal with the overnight fire alarm. It still amazes me how everyone kept shitting on him...
I don't know what to tell you people that don't like her, because one thing that I realized after we lost Shmuel is how much I like the consistency of having the same guards. They get to know us, learn our names, rooms, guests, needs, etc. etc. and it would suck to have to start that all over again with someone new.