Bus drivers have it hard out there—when passengers aren't punching them in the face, they have to deal with their bosses licking their face. At least that's what Bronx driver Nancy Jenkins claims her superior did to her: “He stuck out his tongue and licked me from under my chin all the way up to my eyebrow,” Jenkins told the News. “It was just so nasty.”
Jenkins said the face-licking happened in the Kingsbridge Depot on April 9th, after she had become upset at something the supervisor had said. She filed a complaint with the MTA for sexual harassment, but found the dispatcher was still working the next day; MTA spokesman Charles Seaton told the News that the supervisor has now been transferred to another depot: “We take all such allegations extremely seriously. The report of this incident is under investigation.”
Jenkins went on leave after the incident: “It was unbearable,” she said. “Everyone was talking about it, making jokes. It just broke me down.” TWU Local 100 President John Samuelsen said the supervisor shouldn't be working after such a claim: “If a bus driver licked a supervisor on the face, that driver would have been suspended immediately and then arrested and dragged off the property in handcuffs,” Samuelsen claimed. “There’s an institutional history of disparate treatment of workers as opposed to bosses at the MTA.”
Face-licking is truly gross, but on the bright side, at least no one has started a one-person flyer campaign along your route in an attempt to publicly shame you for "flirting with all the women every day."
