George Washington Bridge Guards Fired – Sleeping On the Job
August 31, 2009 by national
Filed under Incident Reports
Two George Washington Bridge guards caught napping on the job by cliffviewpilot.com have been fired, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey announced this afternoon.
One of the workers was caught dozing twice this morning by Joey Lepore, the owner/operator of a bicycle tour company. The first was during the morning rush. The second time, around 10:15 a.m., Lepore photographed him.
“I didn’t even zoom in,” Lepore said. “I walked right up to the window.”
It wasn’t the first time: At the height of the Aug. 5 morning rush, another guard was photographed nodded out in the west guard booth on the New Jersey side. “And that was the THIRD time I’d seen him sleeping,” Lepore said.
