Comments on: MBTA Chief’s Departure Ends Months Of Escalating Tension

By: Larry Bloch

Larry Bloch — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 04:07:15 +0000

I’ve been looking for this malacha’s ouster for over a year now. Every time I walk into Harvard Station I broadcast how I feel about Dannyboy. He should take a very slow boat back to Athens and see if he can straighten out their mess!!!!!

By: John

John — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 03:27:48 +0000

Good now that Danny is done with the MBTA maybe the new General manager will take the T unlike danny.

By: M E Sinkiewicz

M E Sinkiewicz — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 21:14:04 +0000

Have the posters here even read the article? Grabauskas’s five-year contract where he could be fired only for gross negligence. “During his tenure, Grabauskas oversaw many changes to customer service, including new trains, audio speakers at the stations and the Charlie Card.” Grabauskas more than fulfilled his obligations to the Commonwealth (anyone remember the pre-Grabuskas Registry?). Chalk this up to the dopes in the Patrick administration who wanted him out. If I had to guess, Grabauskas didn’t play ball the way they wanted him to.

By: Ben Gustafson

Ben Gustafson — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 19:24:17 +0000

“The board met behind closed doors for more than four hours to work out the separation agreement that pays Grabauskas $327,000 for the remaining nine months of his contract.” Where does the $327,000 figure come from? Was Grabauskas making $408,000 a year in salary and benefits? Or did the T board just want to get him out the door, and was willing to make the MA taxpayer foot the bill?

By: Doug Carver

Doug Carver — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 15:02:15 +0000

Too bad we all can’t take advantage of ridiculous “severance” packages in spite of poor result from our work domain. Of couse, if we did, the nation, states, towns, and economy would be broke… hmm. well more so than the current situation. A possible contributing factor? And I am sure much of that money went, or will, go into healthier investments. A virtual money tree. And I thought they didn’t exist. Wait until I tell my kids they might be able to find one after all.

By: scrambled-eggs

scrambled-eggs — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 14:24:53 +0000

If my employer offered me a year’s salary plus benefits to go away, I would be crazy not to take it. The fools here are Mr. Aloisi and Gov. One-Term for pushing him out. The job is impossible to do well, sandwiched between union contracts on one side and political interference on the other. Example, we heard one board member complaining about a “lack of commitment to diversity” on BUR this morning – which T is he riding on?

Remember the T is scheduled to fold into the new “Dept. of Transportation” at the end of the year, and leaving the T leaderless makes sense from a political viewpoint, because the opportunities to integrate patronage (Mr. Aloisi’s sister needs a new job ?) into the new system are now manifold. This is likely why the pols were so keen to get rid of the GM now. Keep an eye fixed on what happens in T management come November.
This expensive foolishness at the behest of the Gov. should be remembered as the pols gear up for election season next year. As the President might say, “The Governor has behaved stupidly”.

By: Jemimah

Jemimah — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 13:52:25 +0000

I’m not even sure there are words to sufficiently express my outrage and bewilderment. My expresssion, however, looks something like this { : O
In our present economy, with the current deficit that the T is running, at Dan G’s age, he should be ASHAMED to accept that huge chunk o’ “compensation.” If there was really compensation happening, HE would be paying the T to make up for his bad management. Oy.

By: Rudolf

Rudolf — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 13:45:29 +0000

Gee, I wish I could resign and get paid for the rest of my contract plus added payments for unused (unaccured) vacation and sick time. Sick time is available for being sick, not a paid vacation. Especially in these tough times, this is the golden parachute for non-performance.

By: Leslie Miller

Leslie Miller — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 13:24:49 +0000

That’s an outrageous package in this time of short money! For what? A person who ran a system that couldn’t even get me pplaces on time, and kept breaking down.

As a retgired teacher, I cannot get a raise on my pension except for 3 1/2 percent on the first $12,000 each year, that’s not a cost of living! Actually all my years teaching never got a raise that matched the raises on cost of my living . I worked a second job all my teaching life and all summers and since I was 14yo. I can’t even collect most of my Social security in this state, though friends is most other states are. And Grabuskas gets this large package? I couldn’t even colect for most of the almost 300 sick days I had never used.

This is just like the big money executives getting giant packages to do a bad job in the big corporations. A Thank you for failing!