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Originally posted by phuzzyfish12 okay maybe I am not understanding but 8 x 3 = 24 right!!

8 x 3 is 24. but

example

first year my salary is 100$ for the year
so i have an 8% raise. my 2nd year salary is $108.
i have another 8% raise. now my 3rd year salary is $108 * 1.08 = $116.64.
i get my last 8% raise. now my 4th year salary is $116.64 * 1.08 = $125.9712

so effectively, my salary has been raised 25.9712% over three years

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Originally posted by trunks1022 8 x 3 is 24. but example first year my salary is 100$ for the year so i have an 8% raise. my 2nd year salary is $108. i have another 8% raise. now my 3rd year salary is $108 * 1.08 = $116.64. i get my last 8% raise. now my 4th year salary is $116.64 * 1.08 = $125.9712 so effectively, my salary has been raised 25.9712% over three years

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They need to get rid of Kalikow and the other MTA bigwigs then take bids from corporations to privatize the transit system. I promise you within the decade the system would run so much better with the city bureaucracy thats involved now.

That being said, I'm lucky for once I work above 96th street, no car pooling is in effect up there. I'll just drive in and park infront of someone's overpriced co-op on park ave.

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Originally posted by fr0st Firstly, you can just toss Lepanto's remarks out the window, hes a idiot and his post show that.. I believe something needs to change, they need more reasons to keep working their jobs. I know i wouldnt work at a place where i didnt have a anual salery increase. If they do strike tomorrow they get fine 25k the first day and 50 the next day, the fine keeps doubling along with fining the union and large sum of money. I really do hope they strike as i said if this is what it takes for things to change so be it.. Ill walk my happy ass to school tomorrow.

hahaha we'll see who wins

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Originally posted by kid nyce HELLO WE ARE PAYING $2 to ride the subway WTF? How much more money do people want shit...

I'm guessing you never rode the LN subway

-Your Mother

i really hope they don't strike cuz we have a concert at work tomorrow, and half of our audience won't show up if there's no public transportation!

taxis will still be running, though.. they aren't part of the strike.

I know that Columbia's contingency plan is to have buses running from penn station, port authority, the 125th st. LIRR stop, and the george washington bridge to get people up to campus who live far away. That doesn't apply to me, though, cuz I'm done with school now.

I do have to get to work tomorrow tho... if they strike, I'll have to walk the 34 blocks & 1 avenue, which in nice weather is fine, but in 20 degrees would really suck.

Rachel

well i hope there is NO transit strike cuz then our Secret Santa Dinner will be postponed!!!;( Major streets will be closed...taxis will be hard to find...and expensive to take...def not making Howells then. ive been looking forward to Friday ALL WEEK!!! :T

I just feel for everyone in the city who have to make it to work in the face of such circumstances...


man the timing is JUST great...


on the other hand, if there is a strike, i get to work from home

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Originally posted by Lepanto i hope the same thing happens that happened a few years ago when they tried to go on strike and they were gonna fine them. or break up their union like Reagan did with the pilot's union. Bloody imbeciles. don't do ANYTHING and complain. 'cept bus drivers, i give them props.

Obviously you've never had a train fly by you at 35mph inches from your face. Or had 600 volts of direct current zap you harder than the static you get from a carpet. Or seen rats as big as cats walk by you. Or had some crackhead rob you deep in the tunnels hundreds of feet from the safety of the station. Or nearly get hit by a train.

Gimme the time and place and I can put you there in a pair of diapers cause your gonna stain them.

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Originally posted by ogvh5150 Obviously you've never had a train fly by you at 35mph inches from your face. Or had 600 volts of direct current zap you harder than the static you get from a carpet. Or seen rats as big as cats walk by you. Or had some crackhead rob you deep in the tunnels hundreds of feet from the safety of the station. Or nearly get hit by a train. Gimme the time and place and I can put you there in a pair of diapers cause your gonna stain them.

Awesome you came outta nowhere and well awesome and so true!!!! The rats....ewwww....

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Originally posted by phuzzyfish12 Awesome you came outta nowhere and well awesome and so true!!!! The rats....ewwww....

I figured some peeps would be making a thread here in the NYC forum.

oh we love the rats the rats are what keeps the live animals outta the tunnels

oooooooo i love watching the rats run around the tracks, keeps me entertained while i wait haha

I am soo mad because a lot of plans will be messed up! And I don't now how the hell I will get 100 blocks to work either!!

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Originally posted by EliPsE oooooooo i love watching the rats run around the tracks, keeps me entertained while i wait haha

hell im still waitin go see him


its all bout the ninja rap lol

I had seen a rat try to squeeze a discarded slice of pizza through a pipe. Talk about a small mind.

what i dont get is....... why people are still payin so much money for the trains and all of that, they should b boycotting it until they fix their problems, especially since most of the trains that are runnin are crap i mean this is NYC its not like its some third world country, they could at least update their subways and trains for MTA.

back when Arc was around, I was chill'n outside waiting to get in and i saw a rat the size of a cat dragg'n a bigass garbage bag. haha i was like holy shit it was deff'n Splinter

They're not rats. They're night squirrels . I think The entire transit system needs to be revamped. It should be run like a business, not a public service. Train and bus fares as well as worker salaries should be based on level of service, production, and the condition of the system as a whole. Instead, we're seeing fare hikes and we're seeing MTA workers recieving raises but NOTHING HAS CHANGED FOR THE PASSANGERS! What transit workers do undisputedly deserve is clean facilities and mountain lions for the rats .

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Originally posted by SiLveR_NrGy_985 what i dont get is....... why people are still payin so much money for the trains and all of that, they should b boycotting it until they fix their problems, especially since most of the trains that are runnin are crap i mean this is NYC its not like its some third world country, they could at least update their subways and trains for MTA.

They updated the subway cars and buses. But the stations are a different story which involves construction companies outside the TA with low bid scams.

Example: ABC Contractor bids $100M and is outbid by XYZ Contractor who wins with $200M. XYZ hires ABC at their quoted bid of $100M. Guess where the remaining $100M is going? Yes it's getting kicked back to whoever awarded the bid in the first place. That would be an MTA executive.

The MTA built a building at 2 B'way that had cost overruns. But people forget that part. They forget that their contruction projects always have cost overruns but blame workers for bad service when they want a simple wage increase so that they can take care of their families and loved ones.

You should see the amount the executives make.

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Originally posted by Blake I think The entire transit system needs to be revamped. It should be run like a business, not a public service. Train and bus fares as well as worker salaries should be based on level of service, production, and the condition of the system as a whole. Instead, we're seeing fare hikes and we're seeing MTA workers recieving raises but NOTHING HAS CHANGED FOR THE PASSANGERS! What transit workers do undisputedly deserve is clean facilities and mountain lions for the rats .

Subway workers see things at their "office" that you won't see at a Fortune 500 company. They see rat infestations. Exposure to various dangerous inhalants and liquids. Ever see that black murky water in the middle of the track? No one knows what the hell that is. They have to clean up urine, feces and vomit after people relieve themselves thinking they're getting back at the TA. This is on top of the millions of newspapers and beverage containers like sodas and coffee cups that get thrown out that never make the garbage cans. They have to endure the occasional irate passenger who for some reason blames an individual worker on his own tardyness.

A friend of mine when he started at the TA, payed .71 cents a gallon for heating oil in Rockland County years ago. He now pays around $3.50 a gallon. His pay rate at the TA has only gone up around 10 percent in 13 years while the price of heating oil went up 500 percent in the same time frame. And that's heating oil alone. Other needed things have gone up in price as well.

Subway workers are an easy target for some of you. But you people will never know the amount of money a manager makes. A low level field manager makes around 120K a year. Imagine what a VP makes. I can tell you that people at Kalikows' level have pensions in three to five years that equal in the millions.

Thank goodness the semester is over for me (including tests). However, it will be difficult to get to any parties (I live way uptown), including tonite

The strike is coming - Im pretty sure that come 12AM. The strike will be on.

I have a final tomorrow and the day after. Its like a dream come true.

ITS ON BITCHES!!!

kinda sad it has come to this...

Well, I don't think I could have gotten my wisdom teeth pulled at a better time than tonight. No work tomorrow. Curious how many days I'll be walking to work for the remainder of the week, though.

Can't really blame them, though. I wouldn't work without a contract either. Pataki's comment on the news tonight about how public servants (teachers, firefighters, police, etc.) have worked for weeks, months, even years without contracts was a slap in the face of all of those types of workers in New York State and really set my opinions about this situation. To me, that basically said to the workers, "Fuck you all, we own you, work without any sort of contract because we have a law that says you can't say no and if you do, we'll do our worst." "You don't have any options other than submission to our will."

Also, it's not like these workers have nothing to lose. It's the week before Christmas and they're all threatened with stiff fines and potential jail time for the union leaders. To me, it doesn't seem like a compromise was even close if 30,000 people are taking risks like that.

This is a situation that sucks for all of us, but it's pretty sad to see how the MTA, with the government's backing, is bullying these workers and forcing them to work without the financial support that they feel they deserve to make their job worthwhile.

Great. This probably means no work for me today. *sigh* They're f*cking with my money . Giuliani where are you!?

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