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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Part of the writer’s original tweet:

“I thought we were not allowed to eat on the train. This is unacceptable. Hope @wmata responds.”

She added, “When I asked the employee about this, her response was ‘worry about yourself.’”

Latest update, this one from Buzzfeed: 
“And while the Metro employee will not be facing disciplinary action for eating on the train, she is “hurt and embarrassed” for being blasted on social media, Barry Hobson, a spokesperson for the Metro workers union, told BuzzFeed News Monday.”[/quote]

The Metro "worker" should be embarrassed.  She's been exposed as a lawbreaker and hypocrite.[/quote]

The woman is a bus operator whose schedule that day required her to travel by train from one bus to another during her meal break.  Since Metro assigned her this chaotic schedule that didn't even take into consideration that her lunch would require traveling from one location to another thus prohibiting her from having ample time to eat her meal break (which is only 30 minutes for WMATA employees) then she has nothing to be ashamed of for her actions.  Metro's idiotic scheduling left her with no alternative.  Would you routinely starve yourself on your menial 30-minute lunch break commuting from one job location to another?
The Metro worker is hurt and embarrassed for being made a public spectacle by a busy-body who didn't know the nature of her situation and jumped to conclusions.[/quote]

So, if an addicted smoker with no time for a cigarette break, she would have been justified - "left no alternative"  but --  to light up in the train as well?  [/quote]

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