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If this is the apathetic train, Scott Newman is the conductor.
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Newman, a Metro-North artisan who raked in a $70,000 bacon additional $17,000 in overtime aftermost year, didn’t do a lick of appointment for four afterwards accouterment in backward June and aboriginal July 2012, according to a belittling address appear Tuesday by the MTA ambassador general’s office.
Instead of inspecting, advancement and acclimation accoutrement and equipment, Newman bounced about aimlessly about fast-food restaurants, a Home Depot, a relative’s auto-body shop, his abode and added locations, according to the report.
Sometimes, Newman, 43, aloof sat in his barter at a Metro-North driver parking lot or abreast a alternation station, the address said.
Newman, of Hopewell Junction, Dutchess County, is one of bristles machinists the ambassador general’s appointment investigated, based on their aerial amount of overtime, in adjustment to barometer abundance and administration in the Appointment Accessories Division.
Four of the workers did actually annihilation for at atomic one absolute shift, the address found. During a accumulated 45 accouterment amid them, board bent they didn’t do annihilation railroad-related for 10 shifts.
They were “completely abandoned for the absolute workday,” the address states.
The fifth guy was no angel, either. He agreed to appointment overtime — again punched the alarm six hours beforehand than he was bare and raked in the chef afterwards a administrator noticing, the address says.
“As abashed as we are by the abridgement of candor and bootless appointment belief of the abandoned alley machinists, we are alike added afflicted by the abridgement of management, administration and blank by the foremen and admiral that accustomed this cessation to booty place,” said Ambassador General Barry Kluger.
Reached alfresco his abode Tuesday, Newman told the Daily News he was aloof accursed by Metro-North aftermost week.
He appropriate his battlefront had added to do with an on-the-job arch abrasion he suffered in May, but additionally seemed to advance Metro-North was at fault.
“When there was no appointment to be done, I sat at the stations cat-and-mouse to get alleged for work,” Newman said. “They anticipate aback you accept bottomward time, you should be accomplishing article else. They accept a adamantine time compassionate the way our job is. We’re cat-and-mouse for things to break.”
Newman cut off the account afterwards crumbling to be added specific about his abrasion or his firing.
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MTA address issued a account calling the sloth and abridgement of administration “unacceptable.” The MTA wouldn’t affirm that anyone has been accursed but said antidotal accuse accept been brought adjoin the machinists and two of their supervisors.
The address doesn’t name the machinists, but sources articular four of the bristles — Newman, James Wright, Joseph Derosa and Alfred Thomas. The two admiral faulted in the address are Duane DePalma and Anthony Vitulli.
Road machinists are assigned to appointment crews and generally biking with them to job sites forth advance that amplitude from Grand Central Terminal into counties in upstate New York and Connecticut.
But sometimes the appointment crews accept almost accessory projects or assignments that don’t crave machinists, according to the report.
Track aggregation foremen told board it wasn’t their job to administer the machinists, while admiral who were declared to comedy that role said they activated “the account system.”
The account arrangement wasn’t too able in Wright’s case. Instead of alive forth the advance or in a boutique on April 20 aftermost year, Wright was empiric at home for about four hours in the afternoon. He cut the backyard and bankrupt his yard, according to the report.
A analysis of appointment orders appear Wright didn’t accomplish any inspections or aliment during his bout that day, the address states. Still, he filed paperwork claiming he formed through his cafeteria breach — and accustomed added pay for the artificial sacrifice, according to the report.
Wright — who annal appearance becoming $72,000 in abject pay and about $47,000 in overtime aftermost year — additionally managed to get paid while commuting, according to the report.
His assigned advertisement area was in Bridgeport, Conn. But amid backward July 2012 and aboriginal February, he consistently clocked in at the Brewster Yard, aloof account from his home, again collection to Bridgeport, Conn.
He additionally frequently punched the alarm at the end of his about-face — 4 p.m. — in Brewster, according to the report.
Kluger’s appointment affected that 100 hours of what was declared to be appointment time was acclimated by Wright to commute, according to the report.
The analysis grew out of an analysis of abundance in the Appointment Accessories Division — but acquired into an analysis that included surveillance by board as able-bodied as reviews of amount records, job appointment schedules and added data.
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Information in the address additionally indicates that GPS vehicle-tracking accessories were acclimated to adviser the workers.
Kluger said Metro-North agreed to apparatus every one of his recommendations, including atom checks of machinists at clue aggregation locations and installing GPS on all appointment cartage to be acclimated by admiral to adviser employees.
While Newman was tagged with four “zero-productivity shifts,” the address says Wright was absolutely abandoned during one tour, Derosa did no railroad appointment for two accouterment and Thomas for three.
Derosa — who annal appearance becoming $70,000 abject pay and about $40,000 overtime aftermost year — airtight the aperture on a reporter. Thomas afraid up aback alleged at home.
Wright, DePalma and Vitulli couldn’t be reached.
A day in the activity of a do-nothing Metro-North worker
For four-consecutive canicule starting June 29, board watched as artisan Scott Newman kept active accomplishing annihilation but work. Here’s what he did on aloof one day: July 3
7:30 a.m. — Clocks in at Metro-North’s Poughkeepsie Yard.
7:43 a.m. — Drives to a Home Depot.
8:27 a.m. — Drives to his abode abreast Hopewell Junction.
9:25 a.m. — Goes to McDonald’s.
9:51 a.m. — Goes to a relative’s auto adjustment boutique in Cortlandt Manor, about a 20-mile trip.
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10:50 a.m. — Drives to a atom abreast Metro-North’s Garrison station. No appointment was demography abode there.
12:13 p.m. — Goes to an Arby’s 17 afar away.
1:27 p.m. — Stops at a clandestine abode 20 afar away
2:07 p.m. — Drives around, makes a few stops, again active aback to the Metro-North ability in Beacon, about 26 afar away
3:50 p.m. — Arrives at Beacon
4 p.m. — Clocks out at Beacon
Meet the accumulation of goof-offs
“Machinist 1” James Wright was empiric mowing his backyard and charwoman his backyard from 1 p.m. to 3:45 p.m. on April 20, 2012, but after claimed to be accomplishing railroad appointment through his cafeteria hour, alike acquainted he formed through his cafeteria hour.
“Machinist 2” Scott Newman claimed to be alive as a backup artisan June 29 to July 5, 2012, but during four afterwards tours was spotted bouncing about from nonwork places like a clandestine residence, Home Depot, McDonald’s and Arby’s, a ancestors business and aloof sitting in his car in a Metro-North driver lot.
“Machinist 3” Joseph Derosa spent two accouterment at the Metro-North Croton Yard, but did no work.
“Machinist 4” Alfred Thomas clocked in for appointment at the North White Plains Backyard at 7:01 a.m. on June 21, but by 8:35 a.m. he was apparent at an automated accumulation abundance accomplishing claimed arcade for a bisected hour. He again spent the abutting 2 1/2 hours at the far end of the driver parking lot at North White Plains station, although no clue appointment was occurring there, afore clocking out.
Source: Ambassador General's Report
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