Since then, Tama has earned herself two train cars named after her and, given that she’s now a teenaged cat, a presumed successor. In 2010, she was made the “Operating Officer” of the railway - while maintaining her tourist-attraction station master duties, of course - and as one outlet noted, became the first cat to become an railroad executive. (Miiko’s tenure was short-lived, as she passed away in 2009.) And then, being a highly valued employee, Tama got another promotion. Tama’s mother, Miiko, and another cat, Chibi, joined her as assistant station masters. She also received a really cool station master hat, as seen above, and was lauded as “the only female in a managerial position” in the 36-person (cats excluded) company, according to Independent News (South Africa).Īround the same time, Wakayama Electric expanded - not its operations, but its litter of cat-employees. Less than 18 months later, she was promoted to the title of super station master and given her own office - a converted ticket-taker booth, now with a litter box. The response was a boon for the flailing company, which saw a 10% boost in ridership (not all attributable to a cat, of course), and Tama became a good luck charm. They hired her (to the extent that one can, in fact, hire a cat) as the station master, paying her in cat food. In early 2007, Wakayama Electric decided to make Tama official. Koyama adopted Tama and had her with him during his greeting duties, and before long, people came to the station to see the cat who was a de facto assistant station master. A local man (who had a different job nearby) named Toshiko Koyama was hired as a freelance station master - basically a greeter - on a very part-time basis effectively, it was a way for someone with a full-time gig elsewhere to pull in some extra spending money.
Locals and commuters pushed back (not to save the cat, but to save their own method of transport), and while the station remained open, the people who worked there lost their jobs. Det er gratis at tilmelde sig og byde på jobs. That threatened to dry up in 2006, when Wakayama Electric cut back and scheduled Kishi Station for closure. Søg efter jobs der relaterer sig til Satellite station in surveying, eller ansæt på verdens største freelance-markedsplads med 21m+ jobs. She had a good gig going on regardless, as she was regularly fed by passengers and employees of local businesses. Tama was a stray, born in 1999, who hung around the station for the first few years of her life, unemployed but not really looking for work, given that she was a cat.
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