And it makes sense that Metro workers would be allowed to eat on the train because they probably spend most of their time on the train and, at the least, their downtime is likely spent on the train going from one location to another. It’s not like they can go to Chili’s for lunch.

I’ll shame the fuck out of a brand but I’m not gonna name an employee on social media and especially not take a pic of someone clearly on their fucking break.

Seems like you may be pointing your finger at the wrong person, there; of course it’s ridiculous if pregnant women or elderly passengers get yelled at for drinking water, but that’s not this WMATA worker’s fault.

Good. Fuck this idiot empty-resume’d woman.

I saw a comment on The Root article about this same situation that made one of the best points: Employees of companies often get to do things customers aren’t allowed to do. It’s that simple.

I admit that I’m annoyed by people who eat on transit (irrationally so; I have weird issues about hearing people eat thanks to misophonia, too) but I can’t IMAGINE doing something like this; if it’s getting to me, I get up and move. Life goes on.

At what point did our culture switch from guiding principals to “just follow the rules”?

There fully is a pecking order. I am ashamed to admit it but I sometimes watch these teenage girls vlogs, and the more popular influencers (who just so happen to usually be thin, conventionally attractive, and white..sigh ) definitely get the better rooms and the better invites because more people will see their…

“She should’ve taken the lady’s advice in the first place. She tried to help Natasha. But Natasha couldn’t leave her alone.”

If she’d just reported it, we’d never have heard about it and she’d be going about her life as usual. But she didn’t just report it, did she? Public person and some-time pundit that she is, she tweeted it out for all the world to see. Judging by what she wrote, she thought she’d be admired for it. The dragging she’s…

Yes, well, sometimes they enforce the rules, and sometimes they don’t

I, for one, am outraged and will never be patronising <scrolls back up> fashion app Dote again.

But even then, who texts an employer to report something like this? No eating rules exist to prevent littering so there’d only be something to mention if the worker had left a mess behind.

“We did not...intentionally group girls together based on any racial characteristics”

As a minority woman, you’d think she would have some sympathy for a fellow woman of color.

Oh, no, she’s truly sorry. She’s sorry because it does affect her.

It’s so crazy how people look the other way when people break rules fifty eleven times a day, but when a person of color does it, suddenly IT’S ALL ABOUT MAKING AN EXAMPLE.

Wait, someone tattled on someone else because they were eating while at work?

Do people confuse tweeting and texting? People defending Tynes seem to be on the “she was just speaking to the employer” line of thinking, and that kind of disingenuous, willful misunderstanding really annoys me. TEXTING is speaking to the employer. TWEETING is speaking to the entire human race. Wanna speak to the…

the one who reported the violation.