Author's book publication cancelled after a tweet reporting on a WMATA employee eating on the metro

[Anonymous]

PSA: metro workers are union and get plenty of breaks.

Most metro workers are union but not all. Those that are union often get very short breaks and if they are running behind schedule the breaks are cancelled or postponed. Some employees have to use the trains or buses to get from one location to another during the course of their shift - often to relieve someone who needs to go on break or who has ended a shift. Shifts start before 5am.

And there is no rule against taking photos on Metro.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I love the metro employee for this:

"You worry about yourself."

That is perfect advice.

I love this too. She could have said “F— off,” (I would have), but she handled it gracefully.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:For those of you who think the employee was the problem:

Barry Hobson, the chief of staff for the Metro workers union — Amalgamated Transit Union Local 689 — said in a statement the Metro employee was taking her meal break while in transit from one assignment to another. The statement notes operators have "an average of 20 minutes to consume a meal and get to their next access point to ensure all buses and trains are on time, safe, and ready to serve the riding public.”

From the article posted by OP.

Oh, if the metro UNION says so, we all must be wrong! I don't see how this is an issue outside of the culture now where everyone has to be offended all the time. Metro worker breaking Metro rules, rules which metro enforces (or used to enforce) arbitrarily anyway. Rather than hold metro employees to a higher standard, the internets seem to think a-ok here and the person pointing out the double-standard is the problem. Race wasn't an issue until the offended parties (including WaPo) made it one - it wasn't an issue for the woman pointing out the rule breaking.

If you don’t like the way an employee is behaving, you contact the company. You don’t take that person’s picture without permission and then post it for all the world to see. I don’t know if it was racially motivated or not, but Ms. Tynes’ behavior was unethical, and I don’t blame the publisher for dropping her. She did this to herself. Her publisher is in the business of making money first and foremost, and no company wants to be associated with someone who will affect its profit margins.

+1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I love the metro employee for this:

"You worry about yourself."

That is perfect advice.

I love this too. She could have said “F— off,” (I would have), but she handled it gracefully.

I would hope that neither of you would be digging into a huge plate of pad Thai on the train.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Every time I ride Metro, I hear "If you see something, say something"

Also, I don't have an expectation of privacy while I'm riding public transportation, just like I don't have an expectation of privacy while I'm walking down the street. Someone may take a photo of me.

Eating on Metro is forbidden under DC code .. it's not just a rule, it's illegal.

If the Metro employee claims they don't have enough time to eat while on the job, their union has failed them.

Blank stare. Are you being stupid intentionally or is does it come naturally for you? See something say something is for situations involving potential threats of danger. A person eating on the train does not present a dangerous situation. As such, the lady who took the picture and posted it would fall under that category of "busy body"

What she did came from a place of being petty, and I am glad her pettiness backfired.

[Anonymous]

It wouldn’t surprise or offend me that a person might notice an employee doing something that is well known to be disallowed, but the normal response would be, if anything, an inward roll of the eyes. It’s an issue for the metro worker’s boss! To take and post a picture is beyond the pale, even apart of the trying to get her fired.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I had a woman of color in a hijab cut me in line recently. Started to protest. Then realized I could end up as the next BBQ Becky. Just let her do it. On the one hand, NBD. On the other hand, does any impolite or rule breaking behavior get a pass now because, racism?

You are really stretching

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Who made her the Metro police?

What you’re missing is that black people cannot and do not do this stuff—acting as though they are the enforcement unit for shared public space. It’s entitled behavior.

I think the woman was wrong to confront the employee and to post the photo, but I disagree with you about black people being public enforcers. The only time I have been reprimanded for public breastfeeding was by a black woman. Black woman regularly chastise me for how I dress my kids (no coat! No hat! [It’s 75 degrees!]) A few days ago a black woman next to me at a redlight shouted at me for using my phone (to look at directions).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Every time I ride Metro, I hear "If you see something, say something"

Also, I don't have an expectation of privacy while I'm riding public transportation, just like I don't have an expectation of privacy while I'm walking down the street. Someone may take a photo of me.

Eating on Metro is forbidden under DC code .. it's not just a rule, it's illegal.

If the Metro employee claims they don't have enough time to eat while on the job, their union has failed them.

Blank stare. Are you being stupid intentionally or is does it come naturally for you? See something say something is for situations involving potential threats of danger. A person eating on the train does not present a dangerous situation. As such, the lady who took the picture and posted it would fall under that category of "busy body"

What she did came from a place of being petty, and I am glad her pettiness backfired.

Meh. A plate of syrupy hotcakes, and sausage flying through the air is pretty terrorizing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I had a woman of color in a hijab cut me in line recently. Started to protest. Then realized I could end up as the next BBQ Becky. Just let her do it. On the one hand, NBD. On the other hand, does any impolite or rule breaking behavior get a pass now because, racism?

You are really stretching

DP- nope it’s the same

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I had a woman of color in a hijab cut me in line recently. Started to protest. Then realized I could end up as the next BBQ Becky. Just let her do it. On the one hand, NBD. On the other hand, does any impolite or rule breaking behavior get a pass now because, racism?

You are really stretching

DP- nope it’s the same

No
No it’s not

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I had a woman of color in a hijab cut me in line recently. Started to protest. Then realized I could end up as the next BBQ Becky. Just let her do it. On the one hand, NBD. On the other hand, does any impolite or rule breaking behavior get a pass now because, racism?

You are really stretching

DP- nope it’s the same

Here’s the difference: if you politely but firmly told her you were in line and could she move to the back, it wouldn’t be an issue. If you posted a pic of her on social media along with a rude, shaming message, that would be considered race-driven, because honestly, it’s just not that big of a deal.

A normal person with zero racial motivation (even if it was subconscious) just wouldn’t do what this writer did. If she were truly concerned about a breach in rules, there were much better ways to address it than the way she chose. I don’t necessarily think she needs to lose her book deal over it, but she SHOULD be called out.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I had a woman of color in a hijab cut me in line recently. Started to protest. Then realized I could end up as the next BBQ Becky. Just let her do it. On the one hand, NBD. On the other hand, does any impolite or rule breaking behavior get a pass now because, racism?

You are really stretching

DP- nope it’s the same

+1.

And this is why Trump will win again.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I had a woman of color in a hijab cut me in line recently. Started to protest. Then realized I could end up as the next BBQ Becky. Just let her do it. On the one hand, NBD. On the other hand, does any impolite or rule breaking behavior get a pass now because, racism?

You are really stretching

DP- nope it’s the same

No
No it’s not

And the reason it’s not the same it’s because you made up the whole thing you wanted to add religion and race because you’re oversensitive white supremacist leaning attitude is that Muslim people and people of color are now some kind of over protected class and white folks especially white men are getting The short end of the stick.
Boo-hoo for you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I had a woman of color in a hijab cut me in line recently. Started to protest. Then realized I could end up as the next BBQ Becky. Just let her do it. On the one hand, NBD. On the other hand, does any impolite or rule breaking behavior get a pass now because, racism?

You are really stretching

DP- nope it’s the same

+1.

And this is why Trump will win again.

The same would be if she took the woman’s picture and publicly shamed her/tried to ensure professional consequences for her. Instead she chose to feel silently martyred. The normal thing would be to think “whatever, maybe she didn’t notice the line” or to simply say “excuse me, ma’m-the line starts here.” See how easy that is?