Re: John Bruce and other dips
Author: OPRRMS
Date: 12-06-2008 - 14:30
John Bruce Wrote:
-------------------------------------------------------
> Why? He was texting! Drew Jacksich here has
> raised the possibility of suicide, and I guess you
> could, if consciously planning suicide, decide to
> text as a way of distracting yourself, but this is
> more complicated than it needs to be, as far as I
> can see. He was texting! My own theory, which
> Drew seems to agree with, is that he was a glutton
> for attention and couldn't stop texting with his
> teenage groupies.
I see.
> The question is less why did he do it than why did
> Veolia and Metrolink hire someone with such poor
> judgment, and why did his co-workers (especially
> that day's conductor) and supervisors enable this?
> This isn't what's being pursued.
I'm open to that suggestion. What do you propose? My understanding is that Sanchez had a clean discipline record.
> By "rehabilitate" I mean "try to make Sanchez look
> like a good dude, in spite of his screwups."
Nothing's been mentioned in anything I've read that said he wasn't a "good dude," so if you know of anything to the contrary, I'd be pleased to read it.