Let's dive in, shall we: Monday morning's traffic proved exceptionally sluggish due to the continuing BART strike, now in its fourth day. Over the weekend, a couple of noted tech folks made mistakes on Twitter. And most notably/heartbreakingly, two maintenance workers were killed by a train on Saturday.

First, getting to work this morning will be tough. We feel your pain. The Chronicle has more:

The metering lights at the Bay Bridge were turned on at 5:35 a.m. Those lights usually turn on sometime after 6 a.m., or not at all, said California Highway Patrol Officer Ron Simmons.

Traffic at the bridge's toll plaza began to thicken by 5 a.m., with more cars idling than at the same time Friday. By 6 a.m., cars were backed up on Highway 24 to the Caldecott Tunnel.

Over the next couple of hours, Interstates 80 and 880 approaching the bridge were particularly nasty.

Nasty!

Ferries will run service every 45 minutes during the morning and evening commute. Please be advised.

Also, over the weekend at least a couple of noted tech folks made regretful commentary regarding the BART strike. (Though, rest assured, nowhere near as soul-crushingly stupid as this.) Ben Grossman, Head of Global Operations for Twitter Media, tweeted (and the promptly removed) this golden nugget of wisdom: "What's brown and black and looks great on someone involved in the #BARTStrike? A doberman."

While Grossman doesn't specify whether or not he wishes canine assault on management or unions, it's still a bad move for someone at his level in an industry under such scrutiny from the plebs. It just is. But since tech ilk tend to self-consciously champion their lack of social norms/empathy, shit like this seems de rigueur at this point.

TechCrunch's Alexia Tsotsis replied to Grossman's tweet thusly: "[W]ishing violence on anyone is not a professional thing. In fact, it’s indecent and inhuman - especially since two BART workers were fatally injured on the job in an accident a day after his comments."

Indeed. As SFist reported Saturday, two workers were killed by a BART train. The victims, whose names have not yet been released, were inspecting a stretch of track north of the Walnut Creek station. (Safety issues, you should know, are a part of the negotiations that the two striking unions are begging management to consider.)

In related moments of social media inanity, David Cruise, who "proudly" serves the City of Oakland on issues of "#PublicSafety" made this blunder: "So when is the @SFBart career fair? #BartStrike." Which, oops. His BART strike anger slip caused watchdog journalist Susie Cagle to respond with appropriate head shaking and concern.

We should point out that, when faced with delayed trains and/or another puddle of vodka vomit on the Muni platform, your SFist editor also has a tendency to come unglued on Twitter. So we understand the temptation to vent via social media. Simply irresistible, really. (Thanks for taking it all in stride, @sfmta_muni!)

Until tomorrow...