The Post has caught another MTA station-booth clerk catching some ill-timed zzz's. They snapped a photo of the unidentified worker sleeping at the 18th Avenue F train stop in Brooklyn at 4 a.m. Wednesday. The worker is now under investigation as a result, and an MTA spokeswoman said, "It goes without saying that such behavior will not be tolerated by MTA New York City Transit and it is deeply disturbing to us." But here's what we're wondering: why does the Post get off so much on catching MTA workers sleeping?
Other news sources, including the News and NY1, have occasionally spotted MTA workers sleeping on the job—we've even gotten in on the action at least once—but for some reason, the Post takes particular relish in catching them. They go out of their way to put their pictures on the cover of the paper, like subway maintainer Frank Ryan, and mercilessly mock their exhausted visages. Do Post writers go from station to station every evening between 3 and 5 am, waiting for agents to nod off? Is that some writer's beat? Do they get paid overtime for it? This isn't to necessarily excuse the workers behavior—we're just starting to think the Post might have more in common with Patrick Bateman than we ever realized.
