Get me outta this place

Greetings From Employment Purgatory. I figure the more I talk about this potential job the more likely I am to either get it or get massive loads of pity if I don't. One is the ideal situation the other is the best of an unideal situation. I won't tell you which is which but I will say it's tough to put a price tag on other people's pity. If all goes according to my fiendish plans, I'll know what the deal is by this afternoon.

I'd like to know who the New York City Metro Transit Authority (MTA) thinks they are. Since when is it acceptable for a mode of transportation, that people pay to ride, to change routes mid-trip with no advance notice? Sometimes I get onto a local train or a non-limited bus and all of a sudden the conducter/driver will announce that the train or bus is now running express/limited. You can't do that. I paid my fare to ride locally and boarded a local running train. Now I don't get to go to my stop because you say so. No other self-respecting transportation company would ever dare dream of disrespecting their passengers like this. Can you imagine if you boarded a Continental flight at LaGuardia to fly to Chicago and midway through the flight the captain gets on the intercom and says, "well folks, we've decided that rather than having continuing service on into Seattle today, we're just going to run express straight there, Chicago bound passengers can transfer in Seattle to an east bound local flight. We apologize for any inconvenience." It's the exact same thing (I dread walking eight extra blocks and flying thousands of extra miles equally.)

Still patiently waiting for that call, I remain

Adam