{"id":38954,"date":"2014-04-24T23:19:56","date_gmt":"2014-04-25T03:19:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=38954"},"modified":"2020-07-11T23:20:09","modified_gmt":"2020-07-12T03:20:09","slug":"lol-marta-156","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=38954","title":{"rendered":"lol MARTA #156"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/opKGHoaeEBo?controls=0&amp;start=15\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">One of these days, I really should actually keep count of how many times I make a post based on the ironically humorous failings of MARTA, and have an accurate number, but for the time being 156 seems like an accurate enough number of the times that I\u2019ve found humor at the expense of MARTA.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsbtv.com\/news\/news\/local\/marta-heading-other-states-recruit-new-officers\/nfgcp\/\">Long story short<\/a>: MARTA Police has decided to look outside of the city and outside of the state to recruit. They have decided to visit Detroit, Fort Lee and possibly Puerto Rico. MARTA Police cites that they have very stringent requirements that they are looking for as justification for external candidate search.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\"><strong>Knee-jerk reaction(s)<\/strong>:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">Atlanta residents are too smart to want to work for MARTA; they would probably make more money, face fewer furloughs, and frankly be safer on a daily basis, working at a fast-food restaurant.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">Only in a bankrupt, hopeless and desolate city like Detroit might there be anyone so desperate for work and hope for a better future to be duped into relocating to Atlanta to work for <em>MARTA<\/em>.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">If \u201cstringent requirements\u201d include not being around when you\u2019re needed, using MARTA cars to do personal errands in places well beyond the radius of MARTA properties, turning the other cheek to prosecutable offenses, and being inadvertent accomplice to party for World Star Hip Hop videos, it\u2019s pretty sad (or something to be proud of) that there\u2019s the need for external candidate search.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">But really, this is something that is kind of puzzling. It is a little hard to believe that in a city of 4 million people with a surrounding metropolitan area with a vastly large population itself, that there doesn\u2019t exist 12-39 qualified candidates for MARTA Police. This really does have to mean that those in Atlanta and the Metro area simply don\u2019t want to work for MARTA, putting them in the position to where they have no other choice than to seek elsewhere. Otherwise frankly, this becomes one of those \u201coutsourcing is bad\u201d scenarios, but there doesn\u2019t seem to be any complaints that I can see.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">Or maybe it\u2019s the fact that people in Georgia know how much (more) nightmarish MARTA is going to be, now that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsbtv.com\/news\/news\/local\/gov-deal-signs-controversial-gun-rights-bill-law\/nfgNz\/?ref=cbTopWidget\">it\u2019s basically okay to be able to carry guns pretty much everywhere<\/a> now.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of these days, I really should actually keep count of how many times I make a post based on the ironically humorous failings of MARTA, and have an accurate number, but for the time being 156 seems like an accurate enough number of the times that I\u2019ve found humor at the expense of MARTA. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=38954\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">lol MARTA #156<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[45,118,15,143],"class_list":["post-38954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-fail","tag-marta","tag-og","tag-ohatlanta"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38954"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38954\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38955,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38954\/revisions\/38955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}