Author takes picture of transit employee eating their breakfast and reports them.

[Books]

Here's a story you might have heard before-

Woman who is an author is on a train. Woman takes personal offense at something someone else is doing. Woman snaps at this other person minding their own business. Other person says, "Mind your own business." Woman becomes low rent batman and takes a picture of other person while tagging her employer on twitter. Woman gets response from employer and smugly continues snitching.

Let's take it from there.



And if you were wondering if there's a happy ending-

if old.

 

[Kyuuji]

Did we need the click bait title?

 

[Theorry]

Author uses twitter to complain about woman eating on the train. You won't believe what happens next.

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Am i on Twitter?

 

[BringBackSonics]

Nice clickbait title OP. Unless the article has the same title

 

[Kingpin Rogers]

I believed what happened next op, why the hell did you lie to me?

 

[Heromanz]

So what happen next?

 

[AntiMacro]

She's an employee of the company, which has rules that prevent people from eating on the train, and she's eating on the train.

What does her being black or a woman have to do with it?

 

[I am a Bird]

How do people find the time to get offended about all this petty shit. I don't even have enough time to do things I like.

 

[Zhukov]

I don't get it.

What's she snitching on exactly? You're not allowed to eat on trains?

 

[Nepenthe]

She's an employee of the company, which has rules that prevent people from eating on the train, and she's eating on the train.

What does her being black or a woman have to do with it?

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White people get to break small (and sometimes large) rules all the time without society dictating to them that they should play by the rules regardless of impact or circumstance.

Maybe minorities should start being as petty. We have phones too.

 

[MazeHaze]

She's an employee of the company, which has rules that prevent people from eating on the train, and she's eating on the train.

What does her being black or a woman have to do with it?

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Her being a black woman might have something to do with the fact that a world bank employee felt the need to take her picture and send it to her employer to try to get her reprimanded.

 

[SynthFetish]

She's an employee of the company, which has rules that prevent people from eating on the train, and she's eating on the train.

What does her being black or a woman have to do with it?

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This shit could get that women fired and nobody likes a snitch.

It's petty, uncalled for and absurd to do this to someone.

 

[Trigonometrize]

Nice clickbait title OP. Unless the article has the same title

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Even then, if the article has a stupid headline you have the ability to change it when you share it.

 

[RBH]

Stupid thread title aside, nice to see a happy ending to the story

 

[CarbonCrush]

I thought you were allowed to eat on trains (within reason) as long as the food is not smelly (on the London Underground anyway)?

What an incredibly petty and pathetic person that woman is.

 

[Aeana]

 

[dreams]

I love the outcome of this situation, because you KNOW that she was so comfortable in her privilege that she really thought this would end in her favor. Instead, like a coward she put her twitter on private (couldn't even tweet out an apology?) and is out a book deal. For once justice is served.

 

[djplaeskool]

 

[Deleted member 923]

Good on her publisher. I hate people like this, just mind your own damn business smh.

 

[gutter_trash]

Eating meals in public transit should be illegal, especially on Rush Hour

I had a commuter with a stinky Subway sandwich 2 inches from my face in packed rush hour. Nasty gross.

 

[ohlawd]

bruh you can't post a happy ending and have it be about the author

what about the woman eating on the train? her employer asked the author for details and got them. I hope nothing happens to her

 

[Coolverine]

slightly off topic, but you all complaining about the title, I rarely ever see anyone jump on OP's who format their titles like "I really fucking it when..." Like those sorts of titles run rampant here and are constantly allowed to stay. That shit is worse.

 

[Euler.L.]

White people get to break small (and sometimes large) rules all the time without society dictating to them that they should play by the rules regardless of impact or circumstance.

Maybe minorities should start being as petty. We have phones too.

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Well, author is part of a minority.

 

[Westbahnhof]

White people get to break small (and sometimes large) rules all the time without society dictating to them that they should play by the rules regardless of impact or circumstance.

Maybe minorities should start being as petty. We have phones too.

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Could you change the title? If you can. Idk. This is just horrible.

you KNOW that she was so comfortable in her white ass rich ass privilege

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I think that the snitching thing was petty and the author deserves the consequences, so I'm not defending her, but I don't think she has that.

 

[Mr. X]

I love a happy ending

 

[CloudWolf]

Are people not allowed to eat on trains in the US?

 

[Kyuuji]

I love the outcome of this situation, because you KNOW that she was so comfortable in her white ass rich ass privilege that she really thought this would end in her favor. Instead, like a coward she put her twitter on private (couldn't even tweet out an apology?) and is out a book deal. For once justice is served.

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Is she white?
Twitter bio has her as Jordanian-American, picture below:

 

[MazeHaze]

I love the outcome of this situation, because you KNOW that she was so comfortable in her white ass rich ass privilege that she really thought this would end in her favor. Instead, like a coward she put her twitter on private (couldn't even tweet out an apology?) and is out a book deal. For once justice is served.

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I'm all for calling out white privilege but c'mon you went right on her twitter where it says and shows she is not white. It doesn't help anyone to throw around buzzwords and assumptions without even knowing what you're talking about, it just gives opposition ammo to use to gaslight and further their shitty "SJW are stupid" agenda.

 

[dreams]

Is she white?
Twitter bio has her as Jordanian-American, picture below:

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I already edited my comment, yeah. From the small little picture in the OP she looked white.

 

[Hollywood Duo]

Lol get fucked snitch

 

[Corky]

please don't allow titles like this on here

 

[Deleted member 8861]

She's an employee of the company, which has rules that prevent people from eating on the train, and she's eating on the train.

What does her being black or a woman have to do with it?

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The idea, I think, is that an apparent World Bank employee snitching on a transit worker who's *eating*, a very understandable action for anyone, risks that transit worker's job for no significant or relevant reason, and reeks of classism (rich person policing poorer person's behavior).

Add to this the fact that the victim is a black woman- which would mean nothing in isolation, but far as I can understand, it gains relevance due to the fact that black women face a lot of societal and institutionalized bigotry from many angles already, so being petty at her for something as normal as eating (yeah 'no eating' might be the rules but who fucking knows if the logistics of that is actually realistic for every employee) is doubly harmful.

Purely personally speaking, I don't fully get people being angrier at this being done to a black woman than to a blue collar worker at large either (I mean for all you know a white guy who would perhaps go through the same thing could also have a big family to feed), but that's probably just my ignorance. And although it's being nosy and petty, I don't feel like this means the author who tweeted it out deserved to lose her book deal or whatever either.

But I suppose things like this appear far more targeted and malicious if you actually experience similar forms of oppression, which I have not. /shrug

edit: I've also never understood why people hate snitches this much either, but whatever

 

[dreams]

I'm all for calling out white privilege but c'mon you went right on her twitter where it says and shows she is not white. It doesn't help anyone to throw around buzzwords and assumptions without even knowing what you're talking about, it just gives opposition ammo to use to gaslight and further their shitty "SJW are stupid" agenda.

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I have already edited my reply. I don't read people's twitter bios often, but I saw someone else say she was a minority and double checked.

 

[Manmademan]

Is she white?
Twitter bio has her as Jordanian-American, picture below:

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Minorities picking apart other minority groups in an act of jockeying over perceived social status isn't really a new thing.

 

[Carolina Reaper]

Couldn't follow most of that shit. Twitter continues to be awful.

 

[H.Protagonist]

Damn. Chanda let her have it. Didn't know she had a Twitter. She's never not been one to not call that kind of stuff out, though.

 

[Kyuuji]

Minorities picking apart other minority groups in an act of jockeying over perceived social status isn't really a new thing.

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I don't doubt it sadly, and wouldn't have been surprising were it a white woman anyway. It's a dumb thing to snitch on when it can cost someone their job and I'm glad she's being called out for it.

 

[rrc1594]

Hold that L

 

[jwk94]

This shit could get that women fired and nobody likes a snitch.

It's petty, uncalled for and absurd to do this to someone.

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This whole anti snitching behavior is dumb as hell. I'll never forget when my ex told me she was OK with harboring a murderer in her family because telling someone would be snitching.

 

[RailWays]

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[Mr. X]

I can see this thread getting derailed by the "she's a minority too".

So there's phenomenon of minorities, even black non-African Americans, looking to knock down black people. I do not know why but I noticed this here and there. They just bought into the bias and prejudice that exists.

 

[Slayven]

Changed the title, now you can talk about the OP without drowning out the subject matter with concern trolling over thread titles

 

[Biske]

Yeah fuck that lady. How dare these filthy poors obtain nourishment. Don't they know they are supposed to starve and die as they serve us?

 

[Books]

This whole anti snitching behavior is dumb as hell. I'll never forget when my ex told me she was OK with not harboring a murderer in her family because telling someone would be snitching.

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There's levels to it.

I would probably turn in a murderer in my family to the authorities, or at the very least, not house them.

I would probably not try to get someone eating a sandwich on the train fired.

The idea, I think, is that an apparent World Bank employee snitching on a transit worker who's *eating*, a very understandable action for anyone, risks that transit worker's job for no significant or relevant reason, and reeks of classism (rich person policing poorer person's behavior).

Add to this the fact that the victim is a black woman- which would mean nothing in isolation, but far as I can understand, it gains relevance due to the fact that black women face a lot of societal and institutionalized bigotry from many angles already, so being petty at her for something as normal as eating (yeah 'no eating' might be the rules but who fucking knows if the logistics of that is actually realistic for every employee) is doubly harmful.

Purely personally speaking, I don't fully get people being angrier at this being done to a black woman than to a blue collar worker at large either (I mean for all you know a white guy who would perhaps go through the same thing could also have a big family to feed), but that's probably just my ignorance. And although it's being nosy and petty, I don't feel like this means the author who tweeted it out deserved to lose her book deal or whatever either.

But I suppose things like this appear far more targeted and malicious if you actually experience similar forms of oppression, which I have not. /shrug

edit: I've also never understood why people hate snitches this much either, but whatever

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It's basically this for me. Its a person (the author) having the power to complain and doing it for no reason whatsoever other than because they can because they want to see someone punished. Like, how is that the first thing you want to do in the morning on your commute? I'm barely awake before noon.

Also, thanks for changing the title, mod.

 

[Deleted member 21709]

Good on the publisher.

This whole anti snitching behavior is dumb as hell. I'll never forget when my ex told me she was OK with not harboring a murderer in her family because telling someone would be snitching.

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So you would have reported it too?

 

[MIMIC]

This all happened because of someone eating on a subway? dafuq

 

[MazeHaze]

This whole anti snitching behavior is dumb as hell. I'll never forget when my ex told me she was OK with not harboring a murderer in her family because telling someone would be snitching.

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This is less "snitching" and more "hurtful, entitled tattle-tale"ing.

 

[Palette Swap]

Seriously, why can't people mind their own business.

This whole anti snitching behavior is dumb as hell. I'll never forget when my ex told me she was OK with not harboring a murderer in her family because telling someone would be snitching.

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Or maybe we should take a step back and not compare a woman eating on a train to a murderer.

 

[entremet]

Are people not allowed to eat on trains in the US?

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Those are rules for employees not riders.

 

[Diunx]

She's an employee of the company, which has rules that prevent people from eating on the train, and she's eating on the train.

What does her being black or a woman have to do with it?

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Dude everyone eats or snack at their work station even if it is forbidden, who gives a fuck?