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

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Reminds me of a time one weekday morning when I was drinking my coffee on Metro, going to work, and this guy said "Excuse me! There's no eating or drinking on Metro."

Lol. DC - where hall monitors go when they grow up.

But what if you dropped your cup of coffee, splattering him and the other passengers around you? (It has happened to me) Not to mention the carpet/floor of the train. Would you get down on your hands and knees and clean up the train? Would you pay for the other passengers dry cleaning? Would you be responsible for their medical bills if your coffee scalds them? See the law makes sense and failure to follow it can lead to non-trivial consequences.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Reminds me of a time one weekday morning when I was drinking my coffee on Metro, going to work, and this guy said "Excuse me! There's no eating or drinking on Metro."

Lol. DC - where hall monitors go when they grow up.

So, if it's posted as unlawful, then why were you drinking your coffee on the Metro? What's your excuse?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Reminds me of a time one weekday morning when I was drinking my coffee on Metro, going to work, and this guy said "Excuse me! There's no eating or drinking on Metro."

Lol. DC - where hall monitors go when they grow up.

Should have taken your photo and posted it.

Big difference between rider drinking coffee and an in uniform metro worker scarfing down her scrambled eggs, bacon, and toast.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I don't get the pile-on here. I didn't see the original tweet, just the backlash for shaming a black woman for eating her breakfast. But the tweet was calling out a WMATA worker for violating WMATA rules that have been around for a long time and have been (apparently until recently) enforced by WMATA and mostly respected by passengers.

Is it really off-limits to point that out? I follow some of the Metro criticism accounts like Unsuck Metro and I think it's good that there is a way for the public to point out where the system is failing. Would the backlash here have been as bad if the tweet had tried to anonymize the WMATA employee? And why are people trying to ruin the woman's life - cancel her book deal, target her kids?

Because she tried to ruin another woman's life and get her fired. She knew what her actions would result in by not only tagging a hate account of WMATA (unsuckdcmetro) but also by tagging WMATA - the woman's employer and identifying the train plus train line the woman was on in addition to a very clear photo of her face.

She wanted to publicly mock and vilify the woman in order to get her fired.

Now the rest of twitter is doing the same to her.

I didn't see the tweet about her kids, but I imagine - trying to get an employee fired and getting her book deal canceled pretty much make them even.

So when people point out the rules you're breaking, they are trying to RUIN YOUR LIFE? Aren't you a tad dramatic? She wasn't trying to get anyone fired and it's a wild overstatement to say she knew what her actions would result in.

If you think only morally perfect people should be allowed to generate creative output, I assume you've purged all records of Michael Jackson from your library. have you?

I don't think there's a question of her ability to generate creative output. But that doesn't mean a publisher or distributor has to sell it, as demonstrated by the decision to cancel the publication of the book in question.

She's welcome to seek out other avenues to publish the book. Or put her head down, stop using social media as a whipping post and be thankful she can at least walk into her job this morning and collect a paycheck.

A paycheck she wanted to deny this other woman.

Right. Dozens of black rappers with prison records continue to sell their stuff so clearly the sins of the world don't bar one from publication and distribution within the black community. Neither is a history of child abuse (cough Michael Jackson cough). But hey, Natasha Tynes. Where does the red line go exactly?

You have no evidence she wanted the woman to be fired. That's your projection, same as the racist agenda attributed to her postfactum.

What?? I don't know why you're referencing other people who have either served their time or were cleared in a court of justice.

Natasha Tynes got what she was asking for. She thought that the woman would at least be disciplined (otherwise why include her face and the train line/train identifiers) but I guarantee firing was on her mind. Mainly because the woman was being smart and told her to 'mind her business'.

Guess she should have listened because now her business is in flames.

Welcome to Dysfunctional City (DC) where the lawbreakers expect to run the show.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I don't get the pile-on here. I didn't see the original tweet, just the backlash for shaming a black woman for eating her breakfast. But the tweet was calling out a WMATA worker for violating WMATA rules that have been around for a long time and have been (apparently until recently) enforced by WMATA and mostly respected by passengers.

Is it really off-limits to point that out? I follow some of the Metro criticism accounts like Unsuck Metro and I think it's good that there is a way for the public to point out where the system is failing. Would the backlash here have been as bad if the tweet had tried to anonymize the WMATA employee? And why are people trying to ruin the woman's life - cancel her book deal, target her kids?

Because she tried to ruin another woman's life and get her fired. She knew what her actions would result in by not only tagging a hate account of WMATA (unsuckdcmetro) but also by tagging WMATA - the woman's employer and identifying the train plus train line the woman was on in addition to a very clear photo of her face.

She wanted to publicly mock and vilify the woman in order to get her fired.

Now the rest of twitter is doing the same to her.

I didn't see the tweet about her kids, but I imagine - trying to get an employee fired and getting her book deal canceled pretty much make them even.

So when people point out the rules you're breaking, they are trying to RUIN YOUR LIFE? Aren't you a tad dramatic? She wasn't trying to get anyone fired and it's a wild overstatement to say she knew what her actions would result in.

If you think only morally perfect people should be allowed to generate creative output, I assume you've purged all records of Michael Jackson from your library. have you?

I don't think there's a question of her ability to generate creative output. But that doesn't mean a publisher or distributor has to sell it, as demonstrated by the decision to cancel the publication of the book in question.

She's welcome to seek out other avenues to publish the book. Or put her head down, stop using social media as a whipping post and be thankful she can at least walk into her job this morning and collect a paycheck.

A paycheck she wanted to deny this other woman.

Right. Dozens of black rappers with prison records continue to sell their stuff so clearly the sins of the world don't bar one from publication and distribution within the black community. Neither is a history of child abuse (cough Michael Jackson cough). But hey, Natasha Tynes. Where does the red line go exactly?

You have no evidence she wanted the woman to be fired. That's your projection, same as the racist agenda attributed to her postfactum.

What?? I don't know why you're referencing other people who have either served their time or were cleared in a court of justice.

Natasha Tynes got what she was asking for. She thought that the woman would at least be disciplined (otherwise why include her face and the train line/train identifiers) but I guarantee firing was on her mind. Mainly because the woman was being smart and told her to 'mind her business'.

Guess she should have listened because now her business is in flames.

Welcome to Dysfunctional City (DC) where the lawbreakers expect to run the show.

Like a pervasively corrupt Third World city where respect for law and civil rules has broken down.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Eating in public is just so trashy. Why do it?

Using social media as a complaint box is trashy too. WMATA has clear instructions about how to make a complaint and they don't involve Twitter.



Customer Complaint Process
Customers have several options by which to submit complaints to Metro:
Submit a Customer Contact Form.
Call Customer Relations at 202-637-1328.
Submit a paper comment form, which are available inside all Metrorail stations.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Eating in public is just so trashy. Why do it?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Eating in public is just so trashy. Why do it?

Using social media as a complaint box is trashy too. WMATA has clear instructions about how to make a complaint and they don't involve Twitter.



Customer Complaint Process
Customers have several options by which to submit complaints to Metro:
Submit a Customer Contact Form.
Call Customer Relations at 202-637-1328.
Submit a paper comment form, which are available inside all Metrorail stations.

How old are you?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Reminds me of a time one weekday morning when I was drinking my coffee on Metro, going to work, and this guy said "Excuse me! There's no eating or drinking on Metro."

Lol. DC - where hall monitors go when they grow up.

But what if you dropped your cup of coffee, splattering him and the other passengers around you? (It has happened to me) Not to mention the carpet/floor of the train. Would you get down on your hands and knees and clean up the train? Would you pay for the other passengers dry cleaning? Would you be responsible for their medical bills if your coffee scalds them? See the law makes sense and failure to follow it can lead to non-trivial consequences.

Yes NT seemed very concerned that this Metro worker eating on the train was going to lead to....enormous unpaid medical bills.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:On the metro, there are theee white people with food/drink in my car (including me).

If you are posting here, then you are likely not illiterate. So which part of no eating or drinking on the Metro do you not understand?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Eating in public is just so trashy. Why do it?

Using social media as a complaint box is trashy too. WMATA has clear instructions about how to make a complaint and they don't involve Twitter.



Customer Complaint Process
Customers have several options by which to submit complaints to Metro:
Submit a Customer Contact Form.
Call Customer Relations at 202-637-1328.
Submit a paper comment form, which are available inside all Metrorail stations.

How old are you?

Note there are no options to submit a compliant (and photo evidence) electronically.

Metro and its union like it this way.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Eating in public is just so trashy. Why do it?

Using social media as a complaint box is trashy too. WMATA has clear instructions about how to make a complaint and they don't involve Twitter.



Customer Complaint Process
Customers have several options by which to submit complaints to Metro:
Submit a Customer Contact Form.
Call Customer Relations at 202-637-1328.
Submit a paper comment form, which are available inside all Metrorail stations.

How old are you?

Old enough to know when to mind my own business about some petty nonsense like (GASP!!) a lady eating on the train.
Old enough to know better than to put folks on blast on social media and not expect to get some clap-back.
How old are you? Young dumb and impulsive like that lady who lost her book deal I assume.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:On the metro, there are theee white people with food/drink in my car (including me).

If you are posting here, then you are likely not illiterate. So which part of no eating or drinking on the Metro do you not understand?

In NYC, there are no rules about eating/drinking on metro. In DC there are. I felt that it was a hardship when I was pregnant and felt my blood sugar being low and would have loved to have a drink. But that said, as long as there are rules, it's not unreasonable to ask Metro employees to adhere to them. They're supposed to set an example for the populace.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Reminds me of a time one weekday morning when I was drinking my coffee on Metro, going to work, and this guy said "Excuse me! There's no eating or drinking on Metro."

Lol. DC - where hall monitors go when they grow up.

But what if you dropped your cup of coffee, splattering him and the other passengers around you? (It has happened to me) Not to mention the carpet/floor of the train. Would you get down on your hands and knees and clean up the train? Would you pay for the other passengers dry cleaning? Would you be responsible for their medical bills if your coffee scalds them? See the law makes sense and failure to follow it can lead to non-trivial consequences.

PP here. I am a native Washingtonian and started riding the metro independently when I was about ten. As a young adult I would drink my coffee on the metro daily, and I NEVER spilled it.

Also, your response confirms my first post.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Eating in public is just so trashy. Why do it?

Using social media as a complaint box is trashy too. WMATA has clear instructions about how to make a complaint and they don't involve Twitter.



Customer Complaint Process
Customers have several options by which to submit complaints to Metro:
Submit a Customer Contact Form.
Call Customer Relations at 202-637-1328.
Submit a paper comment form, which are available inside all Metrorail stations.

How old are you?

Old enough to know when to mind my own business about some petty nonsense like (GASP!!) a lady eating on the train.
Old enough to know better than to put folks on blast on social media and not expect to get some clap-back.
How old are you? Young dumb and impulsive like that lady who lost her book deal I assume.

Old enough to ignore the DC fat rats nibbling on your grandchild’s toes?