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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]dsc
(52,162 posts)36. I think the public nature of what the author did was out of line
but frankly I find it hard to defend the actions of the employee. She broke a well known and enforced rule against eating on the train. People have been arrested for violating this very same rule. They have had their freedom taken away, albeit for a very short time, for breaking this very same rule. And when the customer confronted this woman for breaking this rule, that people have been arrested for breaking it should be noted, she was told to worry about herself. I think she should have called or emailed and not used a public post but the fact is this woman had every earthly right to complain about this. Again, people have literally been arrested and put in jail for breaking this rule.
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Author faces backlash for reporting black Metro employee for eating on train; book deal halted [View all]
Demovictory9
May 2019
OP
they get 20 min to eat their meal when they are in transit from one assignment to another..
samnsara
May 2019
#23
She didn't break a rule, the metro authority seemd to condone what she was doing
Merlot
May 2019
#48
While that might all be true, it wasn't up to some total stranger to police that employee's behavior
The Velveteen Ocelot
May 2019
#51
Fuck that - if she was on her lunch break, and according to the union, she was...
backscatter712
May 2019
#83
I see it the same way. Racism lurks in our psyche, and we have to be aware of it.
MaryMagdaline
May 2019
#52
The act of eating on subway or public vehicle IS harmful. Debris attracts rodents.
3Hotdogs
May 2019
#10
I don't see what it has to do with the quality of the novel and whether or not to publish it
treestar
May 2019
#12
Any train rider who sees behavior by a transit system employee, that they think is unacceptable,
MH1
May 2019
#71
It was 100% telling the employer. She used @wmata as well as @unsuckdcmetro in her tweet...
SMC22307
May 2019
#92
I wouldn't rat on someone, but it would piss me off if I was hungry and not allowed to eat on the
Vinca
May 2019
#16
Even if the employee had been breaking the rule, who would try to get her fired?
Honeycombe8
May 2019
#17
I'm ambivalent. Metro has a history of arresting and handuffing people for eating
Recursion
May 2019
#19
I don't care if they keep getting paid, there's no reason for them to be in the train
Recursion
May 2019
#100
You don't know what they do!!! You don't know anything of their jobs, how can you know their value?
CreekDog
May 2019
#110
I agree that this "author" was out of line and should learn to mind her own business, but.......
WillowTree
May 2019
#53
In other words, just because the metro worker was black, it had to have been racially motivated.
WillowTree
May 2019
#74
My initial request asked what in the article indicated that this was racially motivated.
WillowTree
May 2019
#82
I don't want to sit in anyone's mess either and appreciate the no-eating policy.
SMC22307
May 2019
#94
I especially love it when immigrants decide they get to be anti-black racists too.
Dream Girl
May 2019
#79