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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]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? [b]And why are people trying to ruin the woman's life - cancel her book deal, target her kids?[/b][/quote]

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.[/quote]

No, one was breaking her workplace rules, but didn't care. Union. She knows she won't get fired. Maybe not her, but it is also well documented that they sleep on the job.

Another was called horrible for what any DC hall monitor would have done. Come on all you DC hall monitors, can you not relate? Rules are for all of us. Otherwise it's chaos. [/quote]

There are rules but there are also people and governing bodies responsible for enforcing them.  I’m not doing their job for them. If you’re late for work, that’s your boss’s business and they can enforce punishment if they catch it. It is NOT your coworker’s business to run and tattle to your boss that you were late. See how that works? Hall monitors and tattletales are so exhausting and tedious. If WMATA catches an employee breaking rules and wants to punish, that’s their right as the employer. I am not going out of my way to rat out people to WMATA and do their job for them for free. [/quote]

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