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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]MineralMan
(146,262 posts)60. If there's a rule against eating on the train, I won't eat on the train.
However, I'm not going to report someone who is eating on the train to anyone. That would be really dickish of me.
Even though I follow such rules, it's not up to me to enforce them in any way. My line of thinking would be that the person might not know that there's such a rule or has some other reason for eating on the train.
None of my business, really. None at all.
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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