amNY reported this morning that MTA officials aren’t filling cleaning shifts when employees call out sick. From the article:

Unfulfilled duties include day-to-day cleaning, deeper scrub downs and garbage pickup on the rails at major hubs like 34th Street, Times Square and 14th Street, the documents show. The problem is especially bad at night and when it snows, as cleaners sometimes have to shovel, union official said.

The question, of course, is do riders even notice?