{"id":629,"date":"2006-01-25T09:55:38","date_gmt":"2006-01-25T17:55:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2006\/01\/first_theyll_print_a_picture_of_you_sleeping_in_their_tabloid_paper_then_theyll_google_you_and_interview_your_family_and_friends.html"},"modified":"2006-01-25T09:55:38","modified_gmt":"2006-01-25T17:55:38","slug":"first_theyll_pr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/01\/first_theyll_pr.html","title":{"rendered":"First They’ll Print A Picture Of You Sleeping In Their Tabloid Paper, Then They’ll Google You And Interview Your Family And Friends"},"content":{"rendered":"

A gentle reminder never to get on the Post’s bad side<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Wayne Wiggins, 37, the subway-station agent caught snoozing on the clock Sunday, has a history of sleepworking — and even brags to friends and relatives about getting paid for nap time, sources said yesterday.<\/p>\n

He earned almost $77,000 last year sitting, and sometimes snoring, in his booth but, given his disciplinary record — including at least one citation for sleeping — transit sources say the MTA may soon be singing him a lulla-bye-bye.<\/p>\n

“I thought he learned his lesson,” Wiggins’ 15-year-old son, Kevon, told The Post. “But he does seem to work a lot. And he’s really tired when he comes home.”<\/p>\n

When Wiggins returns to work Thursday, sources said there’s a good chance transit officials will be waiting for him.<\/p>\n

“They’ll probably try to fire him,” one source said. “With everything going on, they will want to make an example of him. It’s too bad because he has two kids.”<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Lexis-Nexian Murdochian Wonder Post Power — Activate! Form of — damning quotes from the union newspaper<\/a>:<\/p>\n

In the weeks leading up to last month’s transit strike, Wiggins was outspoken about the MTA’s plans to make station-booth clerks do more work such as cleaning around the turnstiles.<\/p>\n

“Transit sent around this list of, like, nine things they wanted us to start doing — changing light bulbs, cleaning the booths, policing the area around the booths,” he told The Chief Leader newspaper in December.<\/p>\n

The agency has removed agents from many booths, and made them customer-service agents in the stations, and plans to expand this program.<\/p>\n

“Hey, if they want to give me $15 more an hour because they’ve given me the work of four people, maybe we can talk, but otherwise, why should I do more so they can cut more jobs from the union?” he said.<\/p>\n

“If we’re doing our jobs well enough that the MTA’s got a billion in the bank, then it’s time to share that wealth and give where it’s due.”<\/p>\n

He also had harsh words for his supervisors.<\/p>\n

“I think NYC Transit’s the only company in America where you can be a great worker but get fired because you came to work late twice in one year.”<\/p>\n

Transit officials said they are still investigating the case. Sleep violations are not common, one official said, and they are taken very seriously.<\/p>\n

In spite of his record, Wiggins — who could not be reached for comment yesterday — frequently boasted of this job perk.<\/p>\n

“He used to say how easy it was [to sleep on the job],” said Carlos Henry, a tenant in Wiggins’ Queens Village home. “He probably worked a double shift and I guess it caught up with him.”<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

(Are cell-phone pictures of sleeping token booth attendants a modern form of scalp hunting?)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A gentle reminder never to get on the Post’s bad side: Wayne Wiggins, 37, the subway-station agent caught snoozing on the clock Sunday, has a history of sleepworking — and even brags to friends and relatives about getting paid for nap time, sources said yesterday. He earned almost $77,000 last year sitting, and sometimes snoring, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-insert_muted_trumpets_sad_wahwah_here"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}