the metropolitan museum of transportation said thursday that it would lose off more than a quarter of its retailing staff , eliminating 74 jobs in addition to 53 previously cut over the last year . it also warned that the worsening weather would most typically forcing it to shrink its overall labor load by 10 or ― as much as 250 half - and second - time jobs in all ― before the summer , including some in curatorial and other management organizations .
The Metropolitan Museum has 250 employees.