Local 100 of the Transport Workers Union has opposed the authority's recent moves to eliminate conductors on the L line and to reassign token booth clerks as roving customer service agents.
The 74-acre office park now has a day care center for 100 children, a beauty salon, a full-service car wash, an executive dining room, a fitness center with a masseuse and a roving shoe-shine service, among other things.
Roving "VSAs" are combination museum guards/docents/customer service reps ("visitor service associates" to you).
Eastman Kodak has signed a deal to be the exclusive supplier of products and photo-processing services at the Hong Kong Disneyland park that opens Sept. 12. Kodak's services will include "roving photographers" who will walk around the park and snap pictures of families, the firm said.
For the past few hours he has been patrolling Adhamiya, the Sunnis' main enclave in Shia-dominated eastern Baghdad, listening to residents complain about how the country's Shia-led government—"a government of Iran", as one Sunni notable glumly puts it gives them neither protection from roving death squads nor basic services such as electricity.
He recently embarked on a project rigging up New York City's limos and livery cars with outlets (to charge electronics) and antennae, in order to provide ad-supported roving wifi services.
At San Jose International Airport in California, American Airlines is testing a telephone check-in service, self-serve ticketing and even roving agents, who use hand-held computers to issue boarding passes.
Agriculture, especially for crops like almonds, depends heavily on industrial-strength pollination services — itinerant bees and beekeepers for hire, roving from farm to farm, blossom to blossom.
What would Verizon have to offer a world where we are eating squirrel meat, and bartering services to that we do not get shot by roving gangs?
For customers who required service, staffers roved the sales floor passing out beepers.
