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Bradley Jay - Please Go Away

I can take him or leave him. Since I recently damaged my Sirius Radio antenna, I am listening to more terrestrial radio. He does bring a different perspective to topics.

I had to laugh last night when he said he didn't understand why the MBTA had a job lottery. He thought they should only hire people with experience. I don't know about you, but I have never met anyone who just happens to know how to operate a rapid transit car or a trolley.
And, I have never seen an ad on daytime TV for the Andover Tractor Trailer and Locomotive Training School.

I understand his point but the lottery was introduced to try give everyone a fair chance at those well paying jobs. I'm not implying that people with political connections can't jump the list but "winning the MBTA Lottery" only gets you a real shot at a job you still have to pass a test complete a training program before you can operate a bus or train. It is not like you win a low number and they throw you the keys to a bus.
 
vmorrison said:
I can take him or leave him. Since I recently damaged my Sirius Radio antenna, I am listening to more terrestrial radio. He does bring a different perspective to topics.

I had to laugh last night when he said he didn't understand why the MBTA had a job lottery. He thought they should only hire people with experience. I don't know about you, but I have never met anyone who just happens to know how to operate a rapid transit car or a trolley.
And, I have never seen an ad on daytime TV for the Andover Tractor Trailer and Locomotive Training School.

I understand his point but the lottery was introduced to try give everyone a fair chance at those well paying jobs. I'm not implying that people with political connections can't jump the list but "winning the MBTA Lottery" only gets you a real shot at a job you still have to pass a test complete a training program before you can operate a bus or train. It is not like you win a low number and they throw you the keys to a bus.
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See, that's how he (B-Jay) approaches everything in life - every topic. Doesn't research anything, but rather makes nonsensical comments from his own rash point of view.

I suppose that's fine for some people, but I personally would rather have an intelligent individual in the seat making common sense statements about something he/she knows about. Or at least do some research...geez - is it too much to ask?

Even if I don't really care that much for S. Leveille, I at least I can give him that much, he does approach topics with common sense...mostly ;D
 
vmorrison said:
I had to laugh last night when he said he didn't understand why the MBTA had a job lottery. He thought they should only hire people with experience. I don't know about you, but I have never met anyone who just happens to know how to operate a rapid transit car or a trolley.
And, I have never seen an ad on daytime TV for the Andover Tractor Trailer and Locomotive Training School.

I understand his point but the lottery was introduced to try give everyone a fair chance at those well paying jobs. I'm not implying that people with political connections can't jump the list but "winning the MBTA Lottery" only gets you a real shot at a job you still have to pass a test complete a training program before you can operate a bus or train. It is not like you win a low number and they throw you the keys to a bus.
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I can tell you from first hand experience that the T hires and trains people that have no business driving a bus. Some of you know what I did for a living after I got out of the radio business many years ago..... and I only got the job because in the 1987 lottery I got #110 on the white male hire list. After I retired I for grins put in for the lottery again and got a number of 27,000 something.

The reason for the lottery was every politician in the state had a relative on the T. To give the ILLUSION that those days were over, they hired bus, subway, and track laborer positions via lottery. I can assure you the politicians friends still got in the door though and were quickly promoted or protected.

The Lottery was also the direct result of "management rights" being passed into law following the MBTA strike of 1980.
 
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