{"id":51545,"date":"2026-09-25T22:23:58","date_gmt":"2026-09-26T03:23:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=51545"},"modified":"2026-09-30T22:24:05","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T03:24:05","slug":"lol-marta-620","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=51545","title":{"rendered":"lol MARTA #620"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"border-image alignnone wp-image-51546 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/totfc.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/milton_office_space.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/totfc.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/milton_office_space.jpg 560w, https:\/\/totfc.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/milton_office_space-300x150.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.atlantanewsfirst.com\/2026\/09\/25\/marta-payroll-error-leaves-agency-out-620000\/\">ANF<\/a>: MARTA \u201cpayroll error\u201d results in janitor making $620,000 in overtime pay in April, not flagged until July; neither janitor or employee responsible for clerical error are with company, no funds have been returned<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">Chalk this story up as one of the most Atlanta stories there could possibly be.\u00a0 A crime that should have no right succeeding, and perpetrators who will in most likely get away with it, enjoying the spoils of their effort, before the legal system drags on and on and on before any sort of comeuppance is achieved, to where nobody\u2019s going to even remember much less give a shit about this story by the time anything happens.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">Make no mistake, there\u2019s in all likelihood no error at all that resulted in a MARTA custodian somehow getting $620,000 bones in overtime in April, because the reality is that most payroll systems are nearly completely automated, and it most definitely required some degree of manual manipulation to suddenly make this guy\u2019s OT hourly wage go from like $7.75 an hour to $7,750.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">It\u2019s a two-person job and everyone knows it, considering the obvious result that both the person who made the \u2018clerical error\u2019 and the custodian who received $620,000 in OT wages, peaced the fuck out of the job, and probably the country, the second after the funds hit the bank.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">I think the funniest thing is that the crime happened in April, wasn\u2019t flagged until three months later in July, and it\u2019s now practically October that everyone is now hearing about it.\u00a0 Even though MARTA is pursuing legal action and should by all rights win whatever case they have against those who stole from them, it\u2019s not going to change the fact that the crooks who robbed them are going to be living pretty until that day of reckoning comes, if it ever does.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">It\u2019s a microcosm of the state of the legal system, not just in Atlanta, but the country, where it seems that so often times, the legal system is so slow, inefficient, and full of loopholes and trash cans to tip over to slow down the chase, where crooks are emboldened and not at all afraid to commit crimes and flagrantly steal, because it just seems like the punishments don\u2019t outweigh the benefits and luxuries of committing the crimes in the first place, and in the end, they still win out.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">The only ones who really suffer are probably the people who rely on MARTA, because the agency will probably cut jobs or worse off, implement a fare hike, to make up for the $620k that they lost, service will suffer, MARTA becomes an even larger ironic joke, and Atlanta takes more flack for being a low-rent city with a completely inefficient and incompetent transit authority, and where criminals are playing the game on easy mode.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">It\u2019s times like these where the world needs vigilantes like Batman, who don\u2019t operate under any rules or jurisdictions, and could probably go after, apprehend and turn in the two crooks to the authorities in like two seconds.\u00a0 It\u2019s not like they probably went all Milton from Office Space, and actually managed to get out of the country and are enjoying their stolen money from some tropical paradise.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ANF: MARTA \u201cpayroll error\u201d results in janitor making $620,000 in overtime pay in April, not flagged until July; neither janitor or employee responsible for clerical error are with company, no funds have been returned Chalk this story up as one of the most Atlanta stories there could possibly be.\u00a0 A crime that should have no &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=51545\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">lol MARTA #620<\/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":[148,201,112,45,118,83,143,52,49],"class_list":["post-51545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-batarians","tag-cash-money","tag-crime","tag-fail","tag-marta","tag-observations","tag-ohatlanta","tag-owned","tag-wtf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51545","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=51545"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51545\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51547,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51545\/revisions\/51547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}