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

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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.

Telling someone to mind their own business is not "graceful". If she really thought that she had the right to eat on the train, she should have calmly explained that. But she was defensive, because she knew that she was wrong.

She did not have to explain herself to that woman. Who are you people. You do not own service workers. They are not your servants and slaves. Geese, the entitlement of some of our people. It’s crazy.

So you think breaking a rule is fine, especially if done by an employee of that company? Do you eat on the Metro? Do you have problems with more cockroaches and rodents in the system, and do you care that some people may end up with deadly allergic reactions in the depth of the subway where medical care might take a long time to reach them?

Stop being ridiculous.

+1 She was wearing a WMATA uniform while breaking a law. You can disagree over whether t

he twitter lady was being obnoxious to out her, but the WMATA lady was definitely wrong in breaking a law while wearing her uniform.

Doesn’t look like metro disciplined her, so NO.

So she wasn't wrong to eat on the Metro? Great-I'm going to bring my eggs and bacon on the metro tomorrow morning, so everyone else should too. (P.S. Just because Metro didn't discipline her, doesn't mean she didn't break the rules.)

take your eggs, bacon and oatmeal. You won’t be the first or last. Get over yourself. It’s a stupid rule that never should have been. It hasn’t been enforced in decades. I think the last time was the French Fries case with the teenager. Every morning, wearing their black pumps and pressed shirts, commuters from Maryland, DC and Virginia ride the Metro drinking their Starbucks coffee and eating their scones. People like you don’t say a word.

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Drinking coffee and snacking on a granola bar

Digging into hot plate of potatoes and and runny eggs


Those are very different things. Can people really not see why it would be different?

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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.

Telling someone to mind their own business is not "graceful". If she really thought that she had the right to eat on the train, she should have calmly explained that. But she was defensive, because she knew that she was wrong.

She did not have to explain herself to that woman. Who are you people. You do not own service workers. They are not your servants and slaves. Geese, the entitlement of some of our people. It’s crazy.

So you think breaking a rule is fine, especially if done by an employee of that company? Do you eat on the Metro? Do you have problems with more cockroaches and rodents in the system, and do you care that some people may end up with deadly allergic reactions in the depth of the subway where medical care might take a long time to reach them?

Stop being ridiculous.

DP here and it's not my job to police people on the metro. If I see something that is not allowed I am free to report it to the station manager.

Typical local attitude. To a DC resident, anything goes on the Metro. Shame on those who call out the rule breakers!

But when the opportunity is given for residents to start writing parking tickets and enforcing those rules, the pencils are sharpened and people are ready to act and ensure that people are following all local laws and ordinances!

Reporting someone for eating on metro is like reporting someone for littering on the street to the local police station. That's going right in the circular file.

Yet those who don't bother to report eating on Metro, or who say like a PP above "I'll eat wherever I want," are probably the FIRST and the loudest to lose their minds and call out Metro if they see a bug or mouse or, yeah, rat, in the Metro system. Or if THEIR seat happens to have crumbs or grease on it. It's amazing how people do not realize that eating in subway systems absolutely causes problems from the small, like mess on seats, to the serious, like vermin. That's why it's pathetic that Metro decided not to enforce the "no eating" rule overall (not just in this one case). I bet it's less about how hard it is to enforce and more about their wimpy fear of publicity like the French fry case and this case.

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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.

Telling someone to mind their own business is not "graceful". If she really thought that she had the right to eat on the train, she should have calmly explained that. But she was defensive, because she knew that she was wrong.

She did not have to explain herself to that woman. Who are you people. You do not own service workers. They are not your servants and slaves. Geese, the entitlement of some of our people. It’s crazy.

So you think breaking a rule is fine, especially if done by an employee of that company? Do you eat on the Metro? Do you have problems with more cockroaches and rodents in the system, and do you care that some people may end up with deadly allergic reactions in the depth of the subway where medical care might take a long time to reach them?

Stop being ridiculous.

DP here and it's not my job to police people on the metro. If I see something that is not allowed I am free to report it to the station manager.

Typical local attitude. To a DC resident, anything goes on the Metro. Shame on those who call out the rule breakers!

But when the opportunity is given for residents to start writing parking tickets and enforcing those rules, the pencils are sharpened and people are ready to act and ensure that people are following all local laws and ordinances!

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If you want to put someone on blast be prepared for it to come back to you. If that woman had MYOB or simply just sent WMATA a private message her life would be different. Oh well. Boo hoo. Only busybody Betty’s relate to her and think she was somehow treated unfairly even though she posted the pic.

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Anonymous wrote:If you want to put someone on blast be prepared for it to come back to you. If that woman had MYOB or simply just sent WMATA a private message her life would be different. Oh well. Boo hoo. Only busybody Betty’s relate to her and think she was somehow treated unfairly even though she posted the pic.

You are so right.
If that publisher hadn’t put her on blast, they wouldn’t be facing possible bankruptcy over this lawsuit. Boop!

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Anonymous wrote:If you want to put someone on blast be prepared for it to come back to you. If that woman had MYOB or simply just sent WMATA a private message her life would be different. Oh well. Boo hoo. Only busybody Betty’s relate to her and think she was somehow treated unfairly even though she posted the pic.

You are so right.
If that publisher hadn’t put her on blast, they wouldn’t be facing possible bankruptcy over this lawsuit. Boop!

Welp if you think this then you’re the busybody Betty who will soon find out to MYOB. Oh and she was on blast the moment she posted that picture. Keep up.

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If the metro employee was white, there would have been no "blow back". Black privilege.

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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.

Telling someone to mind their own business is not "graceful". If she really thought that she had the right to eat on the train, she should have calmly explained that. But she was defensive, because she knew that she was wrong.

She did not have to explain herself to that woman. Who are you people. You do not own service workers. They are not your servants and slaves. Geese, the entitlement of some of our people. It’s crazy.

So you think breaking a rule is fine, especially if done by an employee of that company? Do you eat on the Metro? Do you have problems with more cockroaches and rodents in the system, and do you care that some people may end up with deadly allergic reactions in the depth of the subway where medical care might take a long time to reach them?

Stop being ridiculous.

+1 She was wearing a WMATA uniform while breaking a law. You can disagree over whether t

he twitter lady was being obnoxious to out her, but the WMATA lady was definitely wrong in breaking a law while wearing her uniform.

Doesn’t look like metro disciplined her, so NO.

So she wasn't wrong to eat on the Metro? Great-I'm going to bring my eggs and bacon on the metro tomorrow morning, so everyone else should too. (P.S. Just because Metro didn't discipline her, doesn't mean she didn't break the rules.)

take your eggs, bacon and oatmeal. You won’t be the first or last. Get over yourself. It’s a stupid rule that never should have been. It hasn’t been enforced in decades. I think the last time was the French Fries case with the teenager. Every morning, wearing their black pumps and pressed shirts, commuters from Maryland, DC and Virginia ride the Metro drinking their Starbucks coffee and eating their scones. People like you don’t say a word.

Then great-get rid of the rule. Then I won't have to surreptitiously eat my banana every morning fearing that someone will fine me. But as long as it's on the books, Metro staff need to adhere to it.

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Anonymous wrote:If the metro employee was white, there would have been no "blow back". Black privilege.

If your mother didn’t meet your father you wouldn’t be here. Everyone would’ve won.

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Anonymous wrote:If the metro employee was white, there would have been no "blow back". Black privilege.

Yup.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Telling someone to mind their own business is not "graceful". If she really thought that she had the right to eat on the train, she should have calmly explained that. But she was defensive, because she knew that she was wrong.

She did not have to explain herself to that woman. Who are you people. You do not own service workers. They are not your servants and slaves. Geese, the entitlement of some of our people. It’s crazy.

So you think breaking a rule is fine, especially if done by an employee of that company? Do you eat on the Metro? Do you have problems with more cockroaches and rodents in the system, and do you care that some people may end up with deadly allergic reactions in the depth of the subway where medical care might take a long time to reach them?

Stop being ridiculous.

+1 She was wearing a WMATA uniform while breaking a law. You can disagree over whether t

he twitter lady was being obnoxious to out her, but the WMATA lady was definitely wrong in breaking a law while wearing her uniform.

Doesn’t look like metro disciplined her, so NO.

So she wasn't wrong to eat on the Metro? Great-I'm going to bring my eggs and bacon on the metro tomorrow morning, so everyone else should too. (P.S. Just because Metro didn't discipline her, doesn't mean she didn't break the rules.)

take your eggs, bacon and oatmeal. You won’t be the first or last. Get over yourself. It’s a stupid rule that never should have been. It hasn’t been enforced in decades. I think the last time was the French Fries case with the teenager. Every morning, wearing their black pumps and pressed shirts, commuters from Maryland, DC and Virginia ride the Metro drinking their Starbucks coffee and eating their scones. People like you don’t say a word.

Then great-get rid of the rule. Then I won't have to surreptitiously eat my banana every morning fearing that someone will fine me. But as long as it's on the books, Metro staff need to adhere to it.

Exactly

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Anonymous wrote:Metro “rules” are ridiculous. I’ll stand where I want, walk where I want and drink my coffee where I want.

And this breathtaking sense of entitlement, ladies and gentlemen, is the problem with trying to maintain a civil society today.

Actually, you’re breathtaking failure to realize that people are tourists who don’t know your inane “rules” is telling. Every time I visit DC I see some local sigh and harrumph because a tourist dares to stand on the left. How about gently asking them to move over so you can pass? No, can’t do that because I live in DC and I’m better than all these people from flyover country.

That’s why the rest of the country despises the lot of you.

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That “rules” PP is probably a dog “parent” too.

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Anonymous wrote:If you want to put someone on blast be prepared for it to come back to you. If that woman had MYOB or simply just sent WMATA a private message her life would be different. Oh well. Boo hoo. Only busybody Betty’s relate to her and think she was somehow treated unfairly even though she posted the pic.

You are so right.
If that publisher hadn’t put her on blast, they wouldn’t be facing possible bankruptcy over this lawsuit. Boop!

Welp if you think this then you’re the busybody Betty who will soon find out to MYOB. Oh and she was on blast the moment she posted that picture. Keep up.

She wasn’t “on blast” from anyone who mattered. Keep up.