job lottery winner fired after less than a week on the job

A 2009 accident caused by a trolley operator sending a text message to his girlfriend resulted in the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) banning even carrying a cell phone while operators were on duty. Unfortunately, that applies even if you are lucky enough to win a job lottery, as a recent MBTA hire found out.

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The unnamed driver beat out thousands of job applicants for work as a Boston bus driver. It was a lottery encompassing 27,000 people, conducted to fill 34 vacancies. MBTA General Manager Richard Davey said on Wednesday that the new driver was seen using a cell phone at a training site. When he noticed a supervisor approaching, the trainee reportedly closed it quickly and got on a bus.

The unnamed employee's firing took place less than a week after his hiring. When the ban was first proposed last year, Davey said there would be a zero-tolerance policy with regards to the cell phone use.

http://www.examiner.com/examiner/x-39728-Tech-Buzz-Examiner~y2010m6d9-MBTA-job-lottery-winner-fired-for-violating-cell-phone-ban

he should have followed the rules

A bus driver who can't resist a cell phone... nobody needs that.