Dear Sam #5: DEKE FOR GM

This stupid little junkie fuckwad held 10+ fare-paying passengers hostage
 in his drug-induced ridiculousness. Yet he seemed more important than the hard-working
 Portlanders held up because this worthless fuck wouldn't leave my bus.
Transit was delayed an hour because this punk isn't in jail.

Deke's Note: Beware Boss, hold on readers. I'm HELLA PISSED. Ya done fucked up big this time, Sammy boy.

Dear Sam,

How dare you?!? How long have you courted our local ATU757's attorney? It took a lot of balls to hire OUR lawyer. I gotta hand it to you, incredibly daring and logistical move. Did you offer him extra money for all the knowledge he has gleaned through his employment for OUR local? His salary was dutifully paid by US. Super fucking sneaky move, so downright nasty and underhanded I will try my damndest to explain how damaging this is.

Your cutesy little bullshit rambles clutter our work email and webpage. Yet we veterans have been wise to the managerial ridiculousness ever since you left me hanging for that promised MEETING #2 WITH DEKE N. BLUE. For over a YEAR.

We guessed your con long before it was obvious. You never did give a damn about US. So just STOP with your bullshit willya? We have known all along you only care about "your accomplishments". The FX2, what a joke, another millions spent on a boondoggle for shuttling nobodies and drug addicts out of downtown to Gresham; bullshit talk about a new MAX line from downtown to Tualatin to serve a workforce that is no longer there. Ignoring/cutting bus service while increasing fare. Sam, your tenure is nothing but a major fuckup. And now you done pissed us the fuck off. Problem is, you don't even need to care. I see your smug mug laughing at me as you read this. Thanks for not giving a fuck for the people who do the work which makes your job possible.

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WE NEED THE RIGHT... TO STRIKE!!! TriMeth has grown too big for its' britches. Time to bring transit down to the working folks' level. NO, I don't want "free fare" because there's too much of that already. As I've said many times before, NOTHING FREE IS EVER VALUED. The people who actually pay to ride are too quiet. They just roll with whatever TM dictates, resigned to the truth that their voice doesn't count. In such a liberal bastion of "give the beggars/druggies whatever they demand", those who work hard every day and pay their fare are angry that TM puts "Customer Service Teams" out there to bend over backwards to the thieves of public service.

Our union needs to stage a massive rally downtown (in front of the fancy marble tower from which you look down upon US) to call BULLSHIT to your predictable shift to corporate mode in administering a public entity. You have failed to appropriately address the incredible stress so many of US have suffered over the years, resulting in PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder) which your lower management has yet to acknowledge fuels many of our SIP (Service Improvement Program, ha, what a joke of an acronym) notices. 

Sam, your transit system is a fucking mess. Yet you smile for the cameras and somehow have convinced yourself you're doing a great job. You remind me of a fellow trucker trainee we nicknamed "Cletus" because he was so stupid, yet conceited, he didn't realize on a live run he nearly killed us because instead of shifting down as a 9% downhill grade confronted his team, he was smiling and praising himself on what a great job he was doing. Only when our trainer screamed at him to downshift did he heed the advice which likely saved the lives of six people in our Freightliner.

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It's obvious, Sam. All you want is to replace Senior Operators with 10+ years and hundreds of thousands of miles behind the controls of a transit vehicle with those hungry for our $39+/hour wage and the $7500 bribe you splash upon every bus marquee (except mine). You immediately throw newbies to the Extra Board where 60+% are doomed to fail, putting thousands of Portlanders at risk every day while laughing at the 50+ new eager beavers every few weeks. You're running a madhouse, after promising to "fix" Portland transit. Along the way Sam, you've found a way to make it worse than it was pre-COVID. Apparently, you don't even care. As long as the "Bored of Deflectors" has your back, the TM-paid-for and heavily-taxed bonuses will continue to lure those hungry for a better paycheck. Once they realize it's a trade for the insanity of daily transit, they'll either bolt or get fired for some bullshit PA (Preventable Accident) or another.

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We thought Neal McFarlane and Doug Kelsey, along with their hatchet man Randy Steadman, were bad. It seems you're trying to one-up their dominance and fear by one simple stroke of genius: hire our former union attorney. Bribe him into defection, clutching him close to he who has immediately become the enemy: YOU, the "BORED OF DEFLECTORS" and your scores of management devotees lurking within those who know your crime yet remain quiet just to keep their job. I know many of those, who read this blog and privately encourage these keystrokes because they know you're fulla shit, man.

Shame on you, Sam.

I was angry with you on many fronts before this move, but now, I won't even shake your hand if we pass in the hall. I cannot even look you in the eyes. You have sunk lower than simultaneous worms in China with this move. To hire a local union's attorney whose job was to protect US is an unprecedented method of saying "FUCK YOU ATU757, WE OWN YOUR ASS". 

So yeah. This is an unprecedented nail in the union coffin, given the upcoming regime of union-busters about to fuck our national government. Maybe Donnie's election gave you the moment you've been waiting for, to hire someone whose knowledge of our union's motives, desires and strategies could give you the upper hand in future negotiations between my beloved union and YOU. Yet my literary fingernail remains throughout his damned four years, writing for all who toil within transit positions where we're on the streets dealing with the druggies whilst the opposition negates the horrors WE experience simply trying to roll our neighbors to their intended destinations.

I call Dirty Pool, Sam. It was the name of my best friend's band long ago, but it's now your nickname. Dirty Pool Sam. Go away. Resign in disgrace. Once hired to clean up your mess,  I'll IMMEDIATELY fire your new hire. Let ME be the General Manager. I will set this crooked line straight and implore the Governor to replace the current Bored of Deflectors with replacements of my recommendation. Your colors are too pastel, Sam. Let me paint them brightly to accurately portray the face of 2024 transit workers and passengers alike. You're obviously incapable.

Move on, Sam. Go fuck up some other transit system. You just explosively revealed your incompetence. How simply childish, dude. Time for Deke to show the way to a competent future for transit. You had your chance. You failed. We cannot ever believe any of your bullshit messages. Buh bye. What a horribly translucent, obvious, ridiculously shameful way to show your hand. I could bluff you with a pair of deuces over your aces given your pitiful showing this week.

You're done, man. RESIGN. I'll  take over. My first action: FIRE Christian Whatitsname. Plus anyone who does not agree that Operators RUN transit.

It's fucking sad as hell I had to write this post. Good fucking grief, Sam Desue, Jr. I hope you have to change professions after this embarrassingly obvious move. Hire your workforce's union lawyer as one of your own is tantamount to hiring one to defend druggies on 5/Davis for a living. Given Portland's current political bullshit, you'll fit right in. Unfortunately, after this post, none of your Operations Union Employees give one dodgam fuck what you think dude. You're DONE. 100% fucked up gone. 

Go away, Sam. You failed.