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In reply to the discussion: Author faces backlash for reporting black Metro employee for eating on train; book deal halted [View all]Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)It's a catch-22. We have a rule against that, but by law you must be given dinner breaks, we can't stop the train to wait. So you are forced to eat on the train. Although there is a rule against that...technically.
So there is no rule. A law that is unenforceable and not enforced, does not exist. It's for an obvious reason: it's not the worker's fault. It's someone's decision not to stop the train to allow the workers to go on dinner break.
I rode the bus for a while in Dallas. Sometimes the bus would just stop, and the driver would leave the bus for 10 to 20 minutes, while we sat there and waited. He never explained anything. He just stopped and left and went into a coffee shop or whatever. That was pretty irritating. In that case, they had to stop the bus, because there was no 2nd driver to take over while he ate. But nothing we could do about it.