Dear Bay Area Rapid Transit. Do you have any clue how hard your riders work, for much less pay than you? When was the last time you didn’t eat, because your nickels for BART were too few? How many weeks of vacation? Really?!?! And you complain? Though you may get a bigger paycheck, how will respect for you remain? If people who already scrape, with nothing left to spend, on things like days off work, or even enjoying the two at the end. You don’t have a contract? Welcome to the real world. Sorry you believe you live in a bubble, and only deserve the pearls. Who doesn’t want more? but to wound others for your cause, is selfish, and disrespectful, whatever your union laws. You can hate me all you want, for putting this into rhyme, but most of your riding public, doesn’t make as much for their time. Because you are so vital, you might want to flex your strength, but most of us have not enough to reach next payday’s length. $52,000 in benefits? It sounds spoiled to want some more. You really must not know what it’s like to work hard, and be poor. Perhaps you can’t afford a lifestyle, that you feel that you deserve, but even the least among us, deserves respect, because they serve, yet so many work for minimum wage, and put their meal money in your bags, that you empty on your tables, and bundle with bands and tags. So maybe the vision of all that cash, has you a bit confused, of what life is like for many of us, who are providing the money you use. I was a temp in the Treasury Department, for nine months, and I love my friends, but that doesn’t mean I have to agree they should arrest the myocardium, on which the region depends. Please, show decent mercy, and care for those more poor. Don’t make the drowning submerge their nostrils, because you want to own some more. If there is a piece of the puzzle we haven’t been told, by the news, that we all come to trust, then I apologize for my sharp tone, in this poem of righteous lust. I wish you knew what the poorer went through, who pay to ride on your train. Perhaps then, you’d show some compassion, and, like the heart, in your functions, remain. Sincerely, W. Joseph Stegner, Jr. June 30, 2013
Posted on: Mon, 01 Jul 2013 05:32:18 +0000
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