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meitantei_cjAssholes. They're going to cut conductor jobs, even though they have a HUGE freaking surplus. $800-something million. I never believed they had a deficit, they lie too much.
Certain lines are going to convert to OPTO (one-person train operation)... and thankfully the F wasn't one of them mentioned, and I don't think they'd get rid of Mom anyway. She only has six years left, and that would SUCK if they let her go this late. But come on. All this extra money that we know you're going to waste on something stupid, I just took a conductor exam last year and haven't been called yet, and you're cutting jobs? Maybe they held the exam solely so they could collect the application fees.
(Not that I want to work for those idiots anyway...)
There's no way a train operator can do both jobs effectively. We're talking eight train cars. If something's going on in the back of the train--doesn't even have to be the last car, just near the back--he's going to have to stop the train in a station and walk all the way back to see what's going on. A conductor would be much closer to everything. If something explodes on the tracks the way it did with Mom's friend, there'll only be a train operator to safely escort eight cars of people off the train and to the nearest station or wherever else--one person to calm hundreds.
And the 7 was mentioned. They'd better have cops on the trains during baseball season, because people who live here can imagine the panic if something happened on that train with people on the way to Shea Stadium. They should have cops on all the trains, but the MTA doesn't run like that. They're not that efficient or considerate.
That system is run by the biggest morons. They're all idiots.
Certain lines are going to convert to OPTO (one-person train operation)... and thankfully the F wasn't one of them mentioned, and I don't think they'd get rid of Mom anyway. She only has six years left, and that would SUCK if they let her go this late. But come on. All this extra money that we know you're going to waste on something stupid, I just took a conductor exam last year and haven't been called yet, and you're cutting jobs? Maybe they held the exam solely so they could collect the application fees.
(Not that I want to work for those idiots anyway...)
There's no way a train operator can do both jobs effectively. We're talking eight train cars. If something's going on in the back of the train--doesn't even have to be the last car, just near the back--he's going to have to stop the train in a station and walk all the way back to see what's going on. A conductor would be much closer to everything. If something explodes on the tracks the way it did with Mom's friend, there'll only be a train operator to safely escort eight cars of people off the train and to the nearest station or wherever else--one person to calm hundreds.
And the 7 was mentioned. They'd better have cops on the trains during baseball season, because people who live here can imagine the panic if something happened on that train with people on the way to Shea Stadium. They should have cops on all the trains, but the MTA doesn't run like that. They're not that efficient or considerate.
That system is run by the biggest morons. They're all idiots.
