Whew!

So BART workers were threatening to strike today at 12:01 a.m. Luckily they didn't. More than 300,000 people take BART on a daily basis. Everyone who commutes to work, whether drive, take ferry, bus or BART would have had a horrible time getting to work today. Curt takes BART to work and had looked at some alternatives: telecommute or take the ferry.
I can understand some of their gripes. (But some of the gripes were over the top.) Management is totally inflated and the people who do the work: attendants, janitors, drivers, etc.--there just aren't enough of them. I can relate--at The Republic we had (and I am sure still have) so much middle management it was insane. We didn't have enough people to do the daily work. For one deputy managing editor's salary we probably coulda hired 2 copy editors and a designer.
Enough of my griping.