Multiple sources in various departments stating they’re looking at more resource cuts. Hatchet falling in March 2025.
Anyone else hear more specifics??
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I have 3 words for you, CUT BABY CUT.
Anything above managers should be trimmed a little? Are you kidding me? If you're a manager who's not actually on the ground "managing" the people you're in charge of, then you need to be cut! The senior manager position needs to be cutout entirely. That position is well beyond useless and causes more problems than any other position I've seen. The low level managers should be reporting to the directors. Nope, they report to the senior managers, who report to the directors, and the directors report to the senior directors or some other form of corporate hierarchy. The point is that some levels of management are just not needed. In fact, the UP doesn't need them at all! If you're a senior manager who's likes to pound away on a keyboard, cussing out people because you didn't get your way and threatening people, then you need to be fired!! All managers need to be tested to see if they can actually do the work they're in charge of. If they can't do the work, then it's BYE BYE to them! The UP has so many opportunities to save MILLIONS by just trimming the management ranks. The UP needs to quit finding ways to get rid of the people who are actually doing the work, instead of keeping or hiring more people who can't do the work.
Anything above managers should get trimmed a little.. We don’t need for instance 2 managers and a superintendent for 13 guys
Not sure why we have so many directors. Most of them hide in their offices because they are inept, manage through email, hoard money from the bonus pool taking from their non-agreement direct reports who do the actual work, and then look for ways to cut craft employees.
You dirty dawgs no one answered the question on march 10. Why are the posters here such d u m b a s s e s? Answer the question?
F that I will.
It’s march 11 happy want a cookie?
Totally agree! What good would it do you to worry about being furloughed? Not dam thing! It would explain why the UP had such a difficult time hiring people after Vena left the first time. People just dont care anymore, and many have decided to not come back when needed. A lot of people with sufficient time are leaving, and those that don't have the time are leaving because it's not worth it. People are sick of the games plain and simple. The UP management is a joke! You could put five of those UP managers together in the same room and still have a lower IQ than the air around them. I've said for years before I left that the UP is over-weight with managers. They don't need as many managers as they have. If the UP doesn't do something about the morale problem, then they might have a problem even staying in business. People aren't going to work for the UP if the management can't be trusted.
With the culture Up has created I dont feel like poeple care about getting furloughed as much. These used to be careers now they are just jobs. Almost no one would quit a RR job 20 years ago. My location has 2 to 3 poeple quit every year. I haven't found anyone from any craft that cares if the place burns down.
The UP is very bloated with management. WHY??? There's a senior manager right here in Council Bluffs with the last name of Brix, and all he does is yell, swear, and threaten people constantly. I left the UP a while ago because of him. There's no other senior manager that's more deserving of unemployment than him. As far as I know he's still around, and from what I've been told he's gotten a lot worse. I don't understand the senior management level. Why can't the lower level managers just answer directly to directors? Isn't their job supposed to be directing anyways? Most of the senior level managers are entirely useless and the manager stated above is just great example of that. The UP can actually save millions and millions by eliminating them. The UP doesn't need them!!!
The manager population could use a weight loss that's for sure. They would save more cutting them and production won't be affected. They do zero production anyway.
The ides of march?
@1bg You know this date how exactly?
3/11 is hatchet date
I'm sure Vena gonna make more cuts as he did in Nov 2023. He cares about vena and he's short timer and wants to hit more metrics so he and the wannabe UP leaders make more money. All of them made gobs on Feb 10 and people don't even realize the asterisk and fine print that their shares vest at 2-3-4 x. Yet the general population thinks they made out fine on Feb 10. He hasn't done anything yet. The market is what it is and the investment community smart enough and why stock is down since her took the helm. They need to cut more execs not ppl that do the work
Ax man coming to Commerce Yard for the transportation department and maybe car department also. Could be a combination of management and craftsman. Anyone want to share your info. Have not heard anything about mechanical yet.
I'm sure it has everything to do with the tariffs., but that's just my opinion. This is exactly how it failed the first time. The business went away, lots of people lost their jobs, the work came back, the UP wasn't prepared, the good people that were let go never came back, the UP resorted to hiring felons, the felons weren't even applying, and the UP got a front row seat in front of congress to answer for their mistakes they created. The only thing that hasn't changed at all between then and now is Vena. He was there at the UP both times, and he created this monster! Don't worry though, he'll figure out a way to sc--w it up just like he did last time.
Emergency Board meeting was today, not sure why they hurried up and had a meeting, your guess is as good as mine. Trimming the fat for the shareholders, a few have considered pulling out of the Wild Hog, in Omaha today, there were 91 people laid off, or let go, today as of Friday 02/21/25, and I hear another 167 will be cut in Omaha by March 3, with the largest cut of 523 from the lower spectrum of management and other departments up here in Omaha, being realigned by April 28. From what we understand, they are merging positions, meaning one person will be doing the work of 2 people and a few will be doing the work of 3 people.
My guess is that Venas time is getting close to being over, he going to cut as much as he can to save as much as he can before he departs. It would make sense considering with the number of derailments the UP has been having lately. Plus it'll be hard for him to cut anyone when the cuts already left.