Barstomanid t1_ja056xy wrote on February 25, 2023 at 9:13 PM

Reply to comment by SlightlyStoopkid in Dispatcher availability no longer all that’s holding back MBTA service by eigiarce

As I understand it, the current contracts only lets them promote into the roles they need from people with sufficient seniority. If you don't have enough people with 5 years of experience or whatever (I don't know the exact number) they can't fill the roll until someone earns the necessary seniority.

Which is, yes, a shitty contract that no one should have signed. Colored me surprised that the MBTA boxed themselves in by signing a bunch of shit contracts.

I could be wrong though, this is all hearsay.

SlightlyStoopkid t1_ja078ri wrote on February 25, 2023 at 9:27 PM

You’d think, after sticking yourself with a multi year time delay to hire an employee, that you’d want to start that process as soon as possible, instead of letting it get so bad that the federal government had to jump in and tell you you were dangerously understaffed.