DaveinElma Posted March 28, 2012 Share Posted March 28, 2012 http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/mar/26/metro-derailed-by-culture-of-complacence-incompete/ Ninety-seven percent of the bus and train operators at the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority are black, with only six white women out of more than 3,000 drivers, according to Metro documents — a lack of diversity at one of the region’s largest employers that has led to an acknowledgment of failure in affirmative-action documents and spawned a series of lawsuits. The homogeneity, interviews with dozens of current and former Metro workers indicated, is a proxy to a clubby culture of favoritism in which merit has little to do with promotions, and accountability, such as noting safety violations, is a career death knell. In typical examples, court and Metro records show, a black man who spent eight years in prison for dealing PCP was promoted to a high-level management position soon after his release, and whites in the same positions as blacks with far less seniority are inexplicably paid less. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
erynthered Posted March 28, 2012 Share Posted March 28, 2012 Metro derailed by culture of complacence, incompetence, lack of divers Inept get promoted, … capable get buried’ Scuba divers get buried?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whateverdude Posted March 28, 2012 Share Posted March 28, 2012 Funny thing about racial bias...It works both ways but we are only suppose to talk about it in public and on political boards when it's done onto blacks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DC Tom Posted March 28, 2012 Share Posted March 28, 2012 http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/mar/26/metro-derailed-by-culture-of-complacence-incompete/ And once again, DiN takes a complex issue and reduces it to "blame the !@#$s". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koko78 Posted March 28, 2012 Share Posted March 28, 2012 Incompetence being rewarded based upon race in Washington DC? I'm shocked. Shocked I tells ya. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
3rdnlng Posted March 28, 2012 Share Posted March 28, 2012 And once again, DiN takes a complex issue and reduces it to "blame the !@#$s". You still missing DiN and want to get him to respond to you? Your mancrush on DiN is getting embarrassing for the rest of us. My God man, he wasn't even in this thread! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DC Tom Posted March 28, 2012 Share Posted March 28, 2012 You still missing DiN and want to get him to respond to you? Your mancrush on DiN is getting embarrassing for the rest of us. My God man, he wasn't even in this thread! Oops. Sorry, DiN. Meant DIE. He's the racists ****; you're just an idiot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
3rdnlng Posted March 28, 2012 Share Posted March 28, 2012 Oops. Sorry, DiN. Meant DIE. He's the racists ****; you're just an idiot. Freudian slip or not, your pining for DiN has gotten rather disconcerting. Do you need him that much to validate your superiority? I know that he was there for you when Conner basically left, and provides you with that much needed punching bag and the one person you know you can best in an argument, but at least attempt to go to the next level. Expand your horizens. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DC Tom Posted March 28, 2012 Share Posted March 28, 2012 Freudian slip or not, your pining for DiN has gotten rather disconcerting. Do you need him that much to validate your superiority? I know that he was there for you when Conner basically left, and provides you with that much needed punching bag and the one person you know you can best in an argument, but at least attempt to go to the next level. Expand your horizens. Don't sell yourself short. You fill in perfectly well in DiN's absence. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
3rdnlng Posted March 28, 2012 Share Posted March 28, 2012 Don't sell yourself short. You fill in perfectly well in DiN's absence. I don't need your mancrush, but this just goes to show how little loyalty you have. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GG Posted March 28, 2012 Share Posted March 28, 2012 What do divers have to do with bus drivers? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nanker Posted March 28, 2012 Share Posted March 28, 2012 What do divers have to do with bus drivers? Well, the Driver sits up front and actually drives the bus. The Diver usually hangs out in the back with his girl and well, gets her all jiggy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chef Jim Posted March 28, 2012 Share Posted March 28, 2012 What do divers have to do with bus drivers? I think he has a problem with black lesbian bus drivers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OCinBuffalo Posted March 29, 2012 Share Posted March 29, 2012 Poll. What is the least shocking thing about this thread? A. That it is yet another in a long line of single subject threads from DaveInElma. One might even call it a "remedial enterprise undertaken with zeal and enthusiasm". (Google that, then click your heels 3 times and say...mod) B. A DiE threat that is about black guys winning, instead of losing....well, aren't they? C. That DC_Tom is compelled to hit the easy target, again, without seeing the potential for humor. (BTW, Nanker? Nice ) D. That 3rdnlng is still butthurt from some new thrashing DC_Tom must have given him in some other thread(s) nobody remembers, but is now reminding us of that thrashing, or inviting us to assume it, by chasing Tom in, of all things, a DiE thread. .............................. B. is my answer. B is for Because. For years the Irish were in control of the police and fire, the Italians the garbage, etc. As each ethnic group has raised itself up, at one time they dominated some public sector thing or another, and I don't think we get very far pretending that they weren't corrupt, incompetent, etc. Now, the blacks are in charge of buses, and, given that this historically means they are on the way up...and not staying where they are, which costs us all a lot of money in taxes and crime....this is a bad thing (B for) BECAUSE? Most shocking thing: GG attempting troll activity??? Hmmmmm. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DC Tom Posted March 29, 2012 Share Posted March 29, 2012 Poll. What is the least shocking thing about this thread? A. That it is yet another in a long line of single subject threads from DaveInElma. One might even call it a "remedial enterprise undertaken with zeal and enthusiasm". (Google that, then click your heels 3 times and say...mod) B. A DiE threat that is about black guys winning, instead of losing....well, aren't they? C. That DC_Tom is compelled to hit the easy target, again, without seeing the potential for humor. (BTW, Nanker? Nice ) D. That 3rdnlng is still butthurt from some new thrashing DC_Tom must have given him in some other thread(s) nobody remembers, but is now reminding us of that thrashing, or inviting us to assume it, by chasing Tom in, of all things, a DiE thread. .............................. B. is my answer. B is for Because. For years the Irish were in control of the police and fire, the Italians the garbage, etc. As each ethnic group has raised itself up, at one time they dominated some public sector thing or another, and I don't think we get very far pretending that they weren't corrupt, incompetent, etc. Now, the blacks are in charge of buses, and, given that this historically means they are on the way up...and not staying where they are, which costs us all a lot of money in taxes and crime....this is a bad thing (B for) BECAUSE? Most shocking thing: GG attempting troll activity??? Hmmmmm. You don't get to 30k posts by letting the low-hanging fruit just hang. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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