25 Tokyo Monorail employees caught fare-dodging
TOKYO —
Twenty-five employees of JR East Tokyo Monorail have been disciplined and eight dismissed after it was revealed that they had regularly been using on JR train services without buying tickets.
According to JR East, the offenders include a section chief and other employees in management roles. As part of their punishment, some of the offenders will have their pay cut by 30% for three months.
JR East reported Friday that one of the methods employed for dodging ticket fares was for an employee to use his Suica charge card to enter the station nearest his home, then disembark at a station near his place of employment at which point he would enter the staff area and use the computer system to delete a portion of his journey from the record.
JR claims the cost of the unpaid fares amounts to over 1.2 million yen. One employee allegedly dodged paying 590,000 yen worth of fares over a 19-month period.
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jingumae
Shame on them! Absolute shame!
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whiskeysour
JR employees have to pay for a train ticket ????????????? Wat da F ???????
I guess JR employees never get an employee discount. JR is a scam underneath a scam.
What a monopoly !!!!! Parker Brothers needs to make a JR version of monopoly !!!!
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TokyoGas
That is a big wow. Going into the computer to delete the files.
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mrjack
wow they charge thier own employees to travel...........and I bet this is just the tip of the iceberg.
How many other employees wear thier uniforms on days off just to get out of paying.
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mrjack
Oh and BTW 590,000 yen over 19 months .......must of traveled just about every day and no one noticed?
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