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The Herald is shocked...SHOCKED! that MBTA General Manager, Daniel Grabauskas, get this ... makes a lot of money. About $255K per year. "Chief $eeing green as T’s in red: Slammed for ‘absurd’ salary"
That's a sh*tload o'dough! The T is in debt! Fire his a$$! Send Grabauskas on an express bus to Unemployment Crossing!
Wait. Who in his/her right mind would want that crappy, thankless job? It sounds sorta hard. If you ran the T, everyone would hate you and you’d have to boss around all the other T employees. Doesn't everyone who works there seem to be kinda tough?
Maybe Grabauskas is a big old useless, fat-cat hack who is undeserving of his salary. Crap. Dude's actually qualified.
In fact, if anything, he seems to be a Brangelina type; an old-school, do-gooder, overachieving pinko. Get this: "From 1995 to 1996, Grabauskas lived and worked in Vilnius, Lithuania training democratic reformers to assume leadership roles in emerging democracies. He also served as an election observer and trainer in Nigeria and Bulgaria."
Day-um. While Grabauskas was helping the underclass overseas to achieve their democratic dreams, we were... oh yeah. Drinking Zima at The Alley Cat till we puked.
Our verdict: Grabauskas seems overpaid but un-hatable. But. if you’re in still the mood for a good-old session hack-hating there's always the Herald's awesome, famous and ever-expanding database of State Workers' Salaries!
Post written by Kristin MacDougall.
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The state should just take the T and figure out how to privatize it. At this point, there really is no other hope for what is quite possibly the worst public transportation system in a major city.
The guy's a political hack. He's never held a private sector job in his life. Never had a job in transportation until he was appointed head of the DMV, and then the MBTA.
When you said he was qualified, I kind of expected him to have a past as either head of another city's public transportation system, or maybe head of operations for a company like FedEx or Avis or something like that. But all he's done is serve as Cheif of Staffs to various politicians, and later get rewarded a high-paying job that should of gone to someone who's worked in logistics all their life, preferably with an MBA and several years experience in the private sector.