NB To Stranded Workers: Probably Not The Best Idea To Bash Your Boss In The Newspaper

This morning, commuters up and down the East Coast were stranded due to a power outage. AMTRAK, SEPTA, NJ Transit, etc. were all out. People were stuck in tunnels under rivers. It was a mess. (Thanks to Flickr, there are already photos up of the incident. God Bless the Internet.)

The Inquirer sent three reporters to ask people if they were annoyed at being stranded — in a shocker, the commuters said “Yes!” — and did find a story of a SEPTA worker who was driving people to a bus stop.

They also found this woman, who is totally getting a talking-to from her boss now that she’s in the office:

“It’s been good for a while — for a few months,” said another stranded passenger, Jennifer McCarrick, also of Malvern. “I think, mostly, things have been getting a little better.”

But her boss no longer rides the train, said McCarrick, Web site manager for a law firm.

“He has early meetings he has to go to,” she said, “and he was late too many times. So he drives now.”

Ahh, yes, telling the paper of record that your boss used to be late is surely a way to move up on the career ladder! But, well, stranger things have happened.

Stranded commuters navigate the stress [Inky]
Photo by rklau
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