Toronto councilor and TTC Chair Karen Stintz will be featured on an upcoming episode of Undercover Boss Canada, the television program where top executives get to experience what it is like to be a front-line and/or entry-level employee in their organization.
The episode, which was filmed last summer during a break in council’s gravy-hunt, will air sometime in February. In her hour-long installment of the series, we see Stintz getting to dig a fabled expansion subway line for a day, napping in unlikely places, sending a few texts from the driver’s seat of a bus, and even getting to visit the hidden subway stations of Lower Queen and Lower Bay. “It was a lot harder than I thought it would be,” admits Stintz. “These people who forget to ask for a transfer until they’re leaving the bus are hard to believe. Also, a lot of riders don’t seem to know much English yet want to use expired day passes and put their shopping bags on seats. But was really opened my eyes [to the challenges of a TTC employee] was learning why the late-night Yonge bus is referred to as the Vomit Comet. TMI, people!”
The councilor also had contact with a fellow city haller while doing her rounds on the Queen streetcar. “Yeah, the Mayor gave me the finger as he passed my open doors and told me to ‘get the f— out of the way.’ I don’t know where he thought a streetcar could be otherwise but that’s okay—he works hard and plays hard and I know he was on his way to Huntsville and wanted to beat the traffic before the 400 clogged up with ordinary folk. When I told him later that it was me waving to him, he didn’t recall the incident and his spokesperson confirmed that it couldn’t have been him.”
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