Three railroad employees were suspended without pay for converting a room underneath Grand Central Terminal in New York City into their own personal 'man cave.' 9News
-- a cabinet in a locksmith shop storage area that hid a pullout cotThe MTA said there is an overwhelming amount of evidence that three Metro- North Railroad employees: a wireman, a carpenter foreman and an electrical foreman used the unauthorised break room several times. It's unclear if employees used the room while they were on the clock.
All three individuals were suspended without pay until their disciplinary hearings, MTA's report said.The Office of the MTA Inspector General said it received an anonymous complaint in February 2019 about the room. That complaint described the same three specific employees would "hang out and get drunk and party." A second, similar complaint was made in late June 2019.
"The behaviour described in the IG's report is outrageously inappropriate and is not consistent with Metro-North's values and the commitment that we have to providing safe, reliable and cost-efficient service to our customers," said Metro-North Railroad President Catherine Rinaldi.Grand Central Station management told investigators they didn't know the room even existed, let alone that it was a locksmith storage room, according to the report.
"The risks associated with employees hiding in that room with the door locked create a variety of hazards including the inability of rescue personnel to quickly access the room."
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