Re: UP to begin installing inward-facing Cab Cams
Author: OYN
Date: 08-24-2013 - 16:44
Dr Zarkoff Wrote:
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> >why did W.J.Lacy set up the "Rubber Room" where
> crews were to report before service ay Yuma.
>
> The Rubber Rooms were set up to drive off the
> clerks after the TOPS agreement was broken,
> allowing most of the clerical jobs to be
> abolished. The clerks so displaced were
> force-assigned to jobs which were in bare rooms,
> just a chair with no TV, no magazines, no
> telephone, no nothing, just sit around and twiddle
> your thumbs for 8 hours. They went away after Herb
> Caen, well known and respected columnist for the
> SF Chronicle, got ahold of the situation and wrote
> about it in a few of his columns.
Lacys "Rubber Room" at Yuma did not have any thing to do with the GXB clerks.
IIRC Caen was long gone from the SF Comical before Lacy became VPO .