Wednesday, 23 April 2008

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  So Does This Mean Shittier Service?

  So, I'm checking WTOP news for updates, between accounting, and run across this.  I take it this means instead of waiting 20-30 minutes for a D6 bus home, I have to wait 40-60 minutes (which is the norm on a cold day).  Now instead of the idiot ghetto girl answering the phone, I have to deal with the idiot, untrained girl that needs to put me on hold to ask her manager 'sumfin'. 

  God, somedays I really hate DC.

  Metro shake-up: New program promotes young workers

  April 23, 2008 - 8:22am
  

  Adam Tuss, WTOP Radio
  

  WASHINGTON -- Metro's General Manager John Catoe plans to shake up the transit agency with a new program that promotes workers -- some with just one year of experience -- into high level positions, WTOP has learned.

  Metro faces a serious challenge with its workforce. Nearly 30 percent of the transit agency's 10,000 employees will be eligible for retirement in 2010.

  Some within the agency say it is time to ditch the stodgy, bureaucratic system that often characterizes D.C. offices, including Metro, and make a move toward younger, fresher ideas.

  Agency documents show the program is called the Senior Leadership Development Program. As described in a Metro memo, it would be a "12 to 18 month intense leadership development cycle with the goal being direct placement in a director/general superintendent level position."  [Translation, who can suck up the fastest, having been there the shortest amount of time]

  That means that after going through the program, a recent college graduate working for Metro could be catapulted into a position just under Metro's Assistant General Manager Gerald Francis, the second in command.

  Metro officials say there is a feeling in the agency that newer, fresher thinking has to be more of a focus. [translation-we can bend them into anything we want to]

  Higher level officials also have complained about the layers of management that often have to be dealt with just to get answers, or make final decisions on projects.

  Competition is expected to be fierce for the positions, however. Metro will pick no more than 10 people to fill the high-powered roles.

  And it is a risk. Employees who go through the extensive training will have their old positions filled, without the promise of making it to a high level position at the end.

  A statement from Catoe to employees reads, "We all win when challenges and opportunities are shared."

  Beneath the main statement was a picture of him giving employees the finger and the words, "Nah nah nah!"

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