Posted on 05/24/2010 1:28:08 PM PDT by markomalley
Thanks to a bizarre MTA policy and a union contract, city bus drivers are taking an average of two months off each time a rider spits on them.
This was revealed at an MTA committee meeting today where officials explained that they define an "assault" on a driver broadly enough to include getting spit on.
Under the drivers’ contract, each time they are assaulted they are entitled to take sick time to recover.
Last year 51 bus operators reported they were spit on and got to take an average of 64 days off, MTA officials said.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
And people wonder why public transportation doesn’t catch on? Who wants to ride with people who would spit on the bus driver?
Spitting riders need to be shot.
Public Trans. Ping.
Sounds like a con game to get free time off.
How convenient. If it’s an assault is the person arrested, charged, and jailed.
Somehow I doubt it.
Sounds like a con game to get free time off.
No kidding.
No wonder we are being taxed to death.
First they give us these “rubber rooms” where pervy teachers can sit and relax all day, for 5 years and still get paid $100,00 a year, and now this?
New York City is a bloody joke!
64 Days off for being spat on?!?
Where do I sign up? You can spit on me, for 64 days vacation.
BTW .... Please aim for my shoes.
It’s NYC, a liberal bastion of socialism. Doesn’t surprise me. Here in L.A., there are cameras and GPS map/TV’s on them so every perp is caught on camera. same as the subways.
Of course, I;ve seen everything from black dudes causing every major disturbance on the train and when you call ‘security” , they dont seem to care.
If this applied to DC press corps,they could all get lots of time off when having to cover Barney Frank pressers.
Sounds like they do not even have to “prove” that anyone spit on them. Free tax money for all....
yep, if the ‘spitter’ is not caught. as in: “hey honey, your brother called this morning...wants to know if you want him to spit on ya again so you can get another vacation”......
Its free market forces at work in a public market arena. Basically, a cottage industry ramping up, where public employee buys spitting services. Sounds like there could even be a public market for these services... in some financial well in a Chicago exchange.
... and if this makes more news, I’d like to get on this market, and short some shares.
“You could ask a friend or relative to spit on you.”
Gee, call my cynical, but it wouldn’t surprise me in the least if it turned out the vast majority of spitters were fellow union workers (”you spit on my back, I’ll spit on yours” etc.). Con game is probably a charitable way to describe it. Given the amounts of pay involved, each such bogus claim would be tantamount to lifting tens of thousands of dollars from the public treasury: wouldn’t that put it in grand larceny range? You’d think these clowns would be mildly ashamed of such a rip-off, but no doubt they feel fully entitled to this “fringe benefit.”
Public Employees Unions.
Talk about ridiculous
LOLOL
Man, if I was a bus driver, I’d wear a sign....
“I dare you to spit on me!”
Just to get the free time off.
LOLOLOL
I get spit on regularly at work....
I could be off nearly 9 months a year...if not more.
WOW!!
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