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TTC Sleeper gets the Photoshop Treatment
While the sleeping TTC worker fiasco has mostly boiled over now, there's still plenty of residual fun being had in Photoshop and online. One "photochop" enthusiast has been particularly busy (definitely not while at work though, right?!). Another imagines that the sleeper wasn't all that thrilled by Avatar 3D.
Over the course of the weekend, the now famous fare collector, George Robitaille, spoke to the media. But before apologizing, he also made it clear that we, the people, need to keep our priorities in check. I hate to break it to you, George, but nothing stops senseless, juvenile fun with computers. Not even the disaster in Haiti.
As the transit story that's taken the city by storm unfolds, more and more fodder is available to the photo manipulating masses. I've collected and shared a few of the funnier ones here, and suspect that many more are still to surface in the coming days.
Many more TTC Sleeper photoshopperies are viewable filtered for "ttcsleeper" on Twicsy.
Photochops by wheniwas19, @keadin, @LenCervantes, @mart3ll, @newfiejobber, @markswi, mondoville, hame.ca, and anonymous emailer.
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And for your lame on meds excuse.
And thanks TTC for parading out something he did 14 years ago as proof he's a stellar employee.
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(CAUTION: Contains abit Union-Bashing !)
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Sorry.
http://dailystream.mondoville.com/ttc-picture-1
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my action to him being asleep, by the way, was to knock on the window..his response? not so friendly.
still waiting to hear back from the ttc's complaints/compliments department regarding what intial consequences were handed following my first complaint.
On the plus side, at least he won't miss anyone jumping the turnstile there.
All kissing aside, he's a public employee. He, the TTC brass, and the union all need to be more contrite. Apologize. Say "oops, we f'ed up" and we'll all move on. The more you try to rationalize this incident the angrier people will get.
Is he part of the overall problem? Absolutely. Is Giambrone the sole source of the problem? No, the union is. As long as Giambrone caters to union thugs, service will decline. His political leanings prevent him from getting tough on them, which is why a business person needs to run the TTC like a business, and the first order is to make it an essencial service with the province (no more strikes!), and to freeze wages, or implement layoffs... worker choice. I think if TTC employees has no other choice but unemployment, they'd shut up and take a wage freeze or cut.
Enough of the unions bullying Torontonians!
Until then, I ride my bike.
"learn to use an apo'strophe"
"apo'strophe"
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Tonight for example... On the 116 Express. The driver decides to stop at the Tim Horton's. This has happened before. But the thing that pisses me off is the Tim Horton's is less than 1 minute away from Kennedy Station. While everyone is sitting there waiting for him to come back, we can pretty much see the station. And this is suppose to be an express bus?
… Last week at ‘Tonight’s’ magazine an article about TTC mentioned the talks of creating a Coalision to protect passangers against TTC monopoly … I would be interested in obtaining more information about that … Thank you all… hope you have a decent TTC ride.
Notice that the statement from the union last week about how they were upset that no one checked to make sure he wasn't in medical distress was basically a set-up for his "I'm on medication" excuse. Much as I hate to encourage disability claims, if you can't stay awake at work, then perhaps you shouldn't be working.
Wow, just brilliant :)
Daniel ....... Toronto
Daniel ............ Toronto
Daniel ............ Toronto
Daniel ............ Toronto
I sympathize with your experience. Unfortunately, for all the good TTC employees out there – and they do exist – there are an equal number of rude, crude apples. I’ll never forget one Queen streetcar driver about two years’ ago, who somehow hit the trifecta: sexist, rude, AND racist.
Within a few minutes, the driver made glaring, lewed, and sexist remarks to a young woman, then mocked her intelligence (she was perhaps 16 or 17). A few stops later, the driver mocked a young black man (I believe he was visiting from Nigeria) who was incredibly polite. All the young guy did was ask a few simple directions, and the streetcar driver started mimicking him (“aping” him, if you want to get specific, and made fun of his accent!) At that point, an older woman shouted “That’s enough!” and told the young man how to get to his destination. I wrote down all the details, including time, streetcar number and route, and reported it to Adam Giambrone.
That said, there ARE some decent drivers, but when they are bad, they are incredibly bad!
Daniel ........ Toronto
I sympathize with your experience. Unfortunately, for all the good TTC employees out there – and they do exist – there are an equal number of rude, crude apples. I’ll never forget one Queen streetcar driver about two years’ ago, who somehow hit the trifecta: sexist, rude, AND racist.
Within a few minutes, the driver made glaring, lewed, and sexist remarks to a young woman, then mocked her intelligence (she was perhaps 16 or 17). A few stops later, the driver mocked a young black man (I believe he was visiting from Nigeria) who was incredibly polite. All the young guy did was ask a few simple directions, and the streetcar driver started mimicking him (“aping” him, if you want to get specific, and made fun of his accent!) At that point, an older woman shouted “That’s enough!” and told the young man how to get to his destination. I wrote down all the details, including time, streetcar number and route, and reported it to Adam Giambrone.
That said, there ARE some decent drivers, but when they are bad, they are incredibly bad!
There is no excuse for this lardass to fall asleep. None.
There is no excuse for this lardass to fall asleep. None.
I've taken the TTC for over 30 years and I will admit that the service has changed but what has changed drastically is the public's lack of respect for the people we entrust to get us to our destinations safely. Now this has opened up a can of worms for every idiot in the city that has a cell phone to take pictures of everyone hoping to get their 15 seconds of fame. You're all morons for fueling this fire and using it as an excuse to vent. What about City Hall wasting your stealing your hard earned money? What about the constant hikes in property taxes? How about those city construction crews? Gee, one guy digs a hole and 4 white helmets stand and oversee what he's doing. I'm sure the guy with the shovel isn't making nearly as much as the 4 supervisors doing nothing. And what about our irresponsible media? Now here are people casing stones galore with no penalty. Ruining people's lives for the sake of ratings. We never complain about how they invade people's privacy and claim to just be reporting the news. Sometimes what you read and the things you see are not exactly what they seem. Grow up people. What other major city provides as good a service as our own TTC? None! You are all spoiled and this is the bigger issue. I am ashamed to be part of the general public in this city. It's obvious that even though we have many highly educated people living here, many of them are self centered, immature morons. I would invite any of you idiots to deal with people like yourselves on a daily basis. This may explain why TTC drivers are paid so well.
You are correct. We should grovel before the employees, nay - heroes that are the TTC. Next time make it less obvious you work for the TTC and like all government positions, you power trip like its your job.
No one would take this job of 100000$ + to sit in a box and do a minimum wage job.
This tollbooth collector died of a stroke last month. The story of his death was not nearly as publicized as this story--which we can now tragically come to understand was a sign of his declining health rather than laziness. Sad...