A student nurse has called out a Melbourne tram inspector for making her cry when he confronted her about not having student identification to match her concession Myki card.
Emma Jane was coming home from a nursing shift on a tram and was asked by an inspector to verify her ticket.
She thought she was in the clear as she had tapped on with her Myki card as required.
However her Myki card was registered as a discounted student concession card so she was asked to prove she was a student.
Users of Melbourne’s transport network are required to use a Myki card to tap on at the station they board – and off before they disembark to pay for their fare.
‘The Myki guy comes up and I was like, ‘I’m fine, I’ve tapped on’ and he goes ‘it’s concession’, she said in her Instagram post detailing the incident.
‘I’m a student, I study as well as work. I was like, ‘I can show you my university. I don’t have a student card because I study online’.
‘He goes, ‘no, you actually need a paper, I’m going to have to report you’.’
She said she began to cry when being lectured by the inspector.
‘Myki inspectors are so ruthless,’ she said.
Melbourne student nurse Emma Jane (pictured) cried after a confrontation with a Myki, public transport, inspector on Monday
‘I’m crying because oh my god, I’m gonna get fined $300 even though I tapped on,’ she said.
‘I didn’t realise and they just sit there and I’m crying and having a panic attack because they’re like scary and they all come around you.
‘It feels like I’m going to jail or something.’
Hundreds of commenters slammed the Myki inspector for being overly harsh and shared their own stories of similar confrontations.
‘Myki inspectors are the most heartless ugliest ogres ever,’ one said.
‘I was on my way into the city and I saw a big middle-aged Myki inspector interrogate a young girl. She looked 14, you could tell she was young,’ another wrote.
The inspector lectured and reported Emma for using a concession Myki card without carrying documents to prove she was entitled to a discount
‘The exact same thing happened to me, as a uni student,’ another said.
Others shared their support for Emma and called for nurses to be given better treatment.
‘Nurses should have free public transport,’ one wrote.
‘Like we need another reason to cry after a nursing shift,’ another said.
Daily Mail Australia has contacted Public Transport Victoria and Emma Jane’s management for comment.