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Where is Dan Grabauskas?
By adamg on Thu, 07/16/2009 - 7:40am
On "unpaid furlough," apparently. Which the Herald reports isn't sitting well with state Transportation Secretary James Aloisi, what with the feds blasting the MBTA this week for the conditions they say led to last year's fatal Green Line crash.
He tells the Globe, though, that he's reachable on his vacation, but told the Globe it's none of its business where he is.
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Ooo, ooo, lemme guess!
Argentina!
With Mark Sanford!
I wondered if Maria was paid to provide cover!
At least we can be pretty sure where he isn't:
Fire Danny Boy!
This guy needs to go.
Can we get a transportation Czar in here instead; someone who knows about transportation , uses it, and actually wants to make it a pleasant experience and expand it in good times?
Wonk with experience
Maybe they could prevent the "golden parachute" effect by permanently furloughing - but not firing - Danny Boy.
Then see if they could get Dukakis to do the job for free or a small stipend, just for the challenge and love of transit.
Time to update the song
Put Danny on the train; don't let him get out. Blame it on "switching problems".
Hand him a sandwich at
Scollay SquareGovernment Center every day.And his fate will be unlearned.
Is there a hell more perfect?
Perpeutual red-line signal failure would be a fitting fate for Grabauskas' soul for all eternity! BWAHAHAHAHA!
did someone say new song?
Let me tell you a story about a man named Danny
Who is tragic in his own way
He drives down the highway in his Sport Utility
To run the whole MBTA
Danny said "I've got an idea for a brand-new train route
And we'll call it the Silver Line!"
But when it was completed all we got were buses
And a busted electrical sign
Danny heads on down to the Alewife Station
Every day at quarter past four
And somewhere on the tracks he goes and breaks a signal
"Cause commutes should take a few hours more!"
Danny answers all complaints, except the ones from bloggers
And pretends that he really cares
And then, he assures us, he will solve our problems
By cutting service and raising the fares
O ye citizens of Boston, don't you think it's a scandal
That the people have to pay and pay?
Demand a brand-new manager and full transparency!
And bring respect back to the MBTA!
Nice!
Nice!
That's great! Believe it or
That's great! Believe it or not, this may be just the sort of thing we need. Somebody should record it and go viral all over the net. It is going to take some sort of serious social movement to get the politicians to notice. At least one mayoral candidate ought to bang away at this everyday, just to make the other guys take a position.
Song? Mayoral Candidate?
If you need a mayoral candidate to do the song, how about Sam Yoon?
If his singing voice ain't great, then have him play the piano and get Felix Arroyo, Sr. to sing.
I am in awe
Bravo.
Um last time I checked an
Um last time I checked an unpaid furlough means your out of the office and that is it. Otherwise it is a pay cut or worse someone working for free and that flies in the face of all sorts of contracts.
If they did not want him to take his time off then they should have either A)Not asked him to take furlough time or B) Reduced his salary. I do not really like him all that much but this is more Patrick/Aloisi then Grabouskis
Salaried furlough?
Isn't he salaried, not hourly? How do you furlough a salaried job? I mean, technically, you can I guess, but it seems meaningless (other than to not use any "vacation" days in your HR system).
Considering Aloisi has been contacting him this week anyways, it seems pretty disingenuous to try and make more out of this than it is. We're not *actually* talking about him pulling a Sanford here.
It does not make sense to me
It does not make sense to me either BUT he is on furlough. In theory he should not even be talking to Aloisi on his furlough time... It is very disgenuous for Aloisi to talk with him all week on the phone then proceed to toss him under one of his own buses.
I agree with the comment below yours, just cut his pay instead of giving him a furlough. After all that seems to be what we expect from him, why make it look like were doing him a favor is we are not.
Yeah, this seems a pretty
Yeah, this seems a pretty week criticism. We put furloughs in the budget at my company for the fiscal year just started, but we purposefully did not furlough senior staff, because we don't want them to reduce their hours. We did, however cut the pay of senior staff. If Grabouski cannot be spared the furlough hours, then they should cut his pay instead.
On Vacay
Good for him for not revealing his vacation location. Other wise, the next thing you'd hear is the media griping that "he is in Bali lounging around some beach or pool, while the Governor is trying to reach him". Even public officials deserve a vacation, right Deval?
Book deal!
Oh, so he disappeared to New York in order to negotiate a book deal?
A tell-all book on the MBTA would be amazing
Just sayin'
ShadyMM; go see Globe
ShadyMM; go see Globe comments; much better stuff!
1. He "changed his mind" while out on vacation and called it "furlough" (prob. finally sunk in he need to make LEADERSHIP move...), but he is a weee bit late on that gesture.
2. Not clear at all he checked that out with his Boss.
3. He is acting like a child when there is some serious stuff at stake ("naah, naah, you can't tag me... cuz I'm out of the office..."
4. As GM of Big Org, with Big Boy Paycheck (with TWO "T" pension plans going--the exec "extra" plus "regular" versions) and lotsa time in the Mass State one (page boy/aide/RMV/etc)), we expect Danny Boy to act like an ADULT.
5. Highly doubtful Danny G/Boy has ever worked one iota "for free" when paycheck coming from the state (aka your/my taxes).