Update: Extra! Extra! Update on 3 hour marketing lunch, Marketing takes 3 day weekend...plus more from our mailbag

MARKETING MANAGER DEE CAWLEY LUNCH SCANDEL UPDATE: SHAME ON YOU DEE CAWLEY

Our eyes tell us Marketing Manageer Dee Cawley was none to happy yesterday when our eyes caught her and some of her staff taking a lunch that lasted about 3 hours including drive time, at a high end ABQ restaurant. Reports flooded in that Cawley was worried her co-workers had "set her up" in some sort of elite spy operation.

Rest assured Ms. Cawley, our eyes are EVERYWHERE. You cannot escape their gaze, so why bother trying. We'd love to hear your assessment of the situation, but we're assuming you are much too cowardly to let us know. As always, eyeonabqride@gmail.com is the best way to state your case.

The other issue this brings up is that Dee clearly doesn't care much about her employees, subjecting them - even forcing them - to attend long overdrawn expensive lunches that may or may not get them in trouble with the bosses. Shame on you Dee, Shame on you.


Marketing: Flex Time or abuse of the system?

And if that wasn't enough, folks...just as we predicted, the Marketing Division of Transit has begun the weekend early, led by their fearless - wait I mean FULL OF FEAR - leader, Keith Perry. As of 2pm, most of Marketing had already checked out and headed home while the rest of us keep this place afloat.

Why is it, that the M-14's and higher get to sit in their cushy offices, surf the internet and basically do NOTHING, while the rest of us have to do the actual things that keep transit moving?

Maybe the people that do NOTHING should be the ones to get the pay cut, not everyone like the drivers, mechanics, csr's, etc. who actually work hard.

Our eyes tell us that Keith Perry, Katherine Anzures, Valerie Valencia, Dee Cawley and others have already checked out to begin their weekend. Once again, must be nice.

They always call it "flex time", whatever that means. They consistently talk about how hard they work sitting at information tables, going to fun events, and taking 2+ hour lunches at expensive high-end restaurants - YET THEY"RE NEVER IN THE OFFICE AND CONSISTENTLY LEAVE EARLY ALMOST EVERY DAY!!! But what we want to know, is what do they do exactly? What's their purpose? What does having a fashion show in the middle of the day do to increase bus or sun van ridership - which is too high to handle already?!?

Your move Rizzieri. If we were mayor Berry, we'd be taking a long hard look at those jobs when you're cutting the workers salaries which are too low already.


Mayor Chavez - maybe he wasn't so bad



This picture was sent to us via email by one of our loyal readers. It begs the question, was Marty really as bad as we all thought? Marty never cut our pay, in fact...he gave us raises every year!!!

Maybe mayor Berry and his loyal minion Bruce Rizzieri need to stop giving huge raises to the already outrageiously bloated salaries of his top aids like David Campbell and Darren White's 2 press people while cutting our salaries across the board, and start looking out for the people that got him to where he is today.