Posted on 04/15/2006 4:42:50 AM PDT by COUNTrecount
LOS ANGELES -- Arthur Winston, a transit employee who received a citation from President Clinton for his decades of service, died in his sleep less than a month after retiring on his 100th birthday, his family said yesterday. Mr. Winston had been admitted to a hospital for exhaustion and dehydration but returned to his home April 6. He died Thursday evening.
For decades, he reported to work at the crack of dawn to supervise workers who cleaned and refueled the region's bus fleet.
He missed just one day of work in more than 70 years at the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, and that was to attend his wife's funeral in 1988. In 1996, he received an ''Employee of the Century" citation from Clinton.
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Wonder who has this job now??
He never should have retired.
I saw a program on him a few weeks ago when he retired. What a story! He's the epitome of a hard worker. I wonder if it's no coincidence that instead of retiring at first chance like so many state hacks, he kept working until they made him stop.
Missed a day? Slacker.
Retirement does that to people. Up until then, hard working, healthy as a horse, and could go on forever. Then forcibly put out to pasture. Death soon follows.
Why hadn't the Los Angeles MTA promoted this good man above maintanence supervisor during his 70 years of loyal service?
I read the word "job" in the headline as "pub."
How's his father doing?
I wonder why he wasn't a Republican. He had a strong work ethic and he is old enough to remember that when Lincoln (a Republican) freed the slaves. I guess he was brainwashed later in life.
Well, he started working in the great depression...an era in which Republicans were not too popular, especially among the affected.
The day he missed was for his wife's funeral!
As far as the pub goes, I'll try to hold my end up.
I wonder how long ago that photo was taken. If it was recently, he looked pretty darn good for a man of his age.
It's too bad that his great record has to be ruined by attaching klintoon's name to it.
Missed a day? Slacker.
I wonder if they are just talking about unscheduled absences. I am sure that he took his 30 day leaves every year or is that not the case? I don't believe that he let the state keep his vacation day or at least I hope he didn't. I think this story is a bit exaggerated.
I wonder why he wasn't a Republican. He had a strong work ethic and he is old enough to remember that when Lincoln (a Republican) freed the slaves. I guess he was brainwashed later in life.
Where did you read he was a democrat?
May he rest in peace.
LOL. I've thought of retiring but I seriously think spending all day with my wife would kill me. That and being about 30 years to young to qualify have prevented me from doing so.
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