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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Book deal lady seems like a first class beeyatch but I see nothing wrong with this - a uniformed metro employee breaking the law (or what we all thought the law was until yesterday.) This deserves to get called out and I do t see why race matters to anyone except the wapo reporter and all the faux woke people here.

This isn't the metro worker being rude (if that were a crime ain't enough jails in the world). This was small but criminal behavior by someone who KNOWS better. [/quote]

Because book lady was seen as punching down. It's a bad look for someone who styles herself as an ally to the underrepresented.

I don't understand why it's so hard for people to understand this. [/quote]

Can we stop with this punching down nonsense.
Jobs at metro are great jobs. Coveted jobs.
NEWSFLASH DUM DUMS: the metro workers are often making as much or more than the white collar riders.[/quote]

No, we can't stop with this punching down nonsense. No one is saying that this woman was homeless. But some anonymous Metro employee wearing a uniform while eating her lunch when she shouldn't be is not as powerful as an author whose book is about to be published. [b]The author is in a different position[/b]. Do you really not understand that?[/quote]

Well, since her book deal was cancelled, it sounds like her position was quite precarious.[/quote]

I give up. [/quote]

You should because you're not explaining yourself well.  The Metro worker was wearing a uniform and breaking a Metro rule.  Yet the person pointing that out is the one facing consequences.  Metro should just dump the rule about eating/drinking if their own employees aren't going to follow it.[/quote]
+1  [b]People represent their employers when they're on duty.[/b]  [/quote]

They certainly do!

Contracted authors on social media represent their publishing company.[/quote]

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