OUCH: Greedy Executives Double Salaries, Cut Customer Service, May Ask for a Bailout. “No, it’s not the latest Wall Street failure. It’s D.C.’s Metro public transportation system. The D.C. Examiner reports that the system is anticipating major reductions in service, a hiring freeze, and possibly layoffs. Yet salaries at all levels of Metro have increased at several times the rate of inflation.” Well, they have to increase that way. Otherwise, how would they buy votes?