No independent thought. Do what you’re told.
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I work in signal. For years I tried to help improve things. An example I noticed no one seemed to really know how to use tools. Guys would spend hours with crescent wrenches slowly working nuts and bolts. One day at a derailment I brought a personal cordless impact g-n and was done much much sooner while my coworkers were just slugging along. The manager noticed this and immediately went out and bought more cordless impacts exactly like my personal one. I unintentionally made a terrible enemy that day. My foreman has forever more taken every opportunity to bad mouth me. I realize now he doesnt want anyone but him getting any sort of positive recognition. My work life would be a lot better if I just wouldve kept my head down, my mouth shut, and been a kool aid drinking yes man.
One must sell their soul to climb the corporate ladder. Have fun with that.
I drank the Kool-aid, and I’m a loser. Thanks UP.
Of course they do what they are told to do. That’s why they are employees. We need to focus on the people making these policies
zsh, you have a point. Remember when Biden mentioned that the rent moratorium was likely unconstitutional but he passed it anyway because he knew it would take time for the courts to hear the case? Big business, UP included, does the same exact tactic. Maybe they will win, maybe they will lose, but they demoralize the opposition because until a court rules on it, their ideas prevail, and as slow as the legal system moves, it could take years.
The winners at Union Pacific are the ones who drink the Kool-aid, but they do so for their own survival, not for the betterment of the company. The losers are the ones who try to make daily improvements or work hard because that is their work ethic. That's not meant to be an insult, but just the cold, honest, truth with a company such as UP.
I can think of quite a few companies that had to shut there doors because every single employee walked off the job. Yes, you should do as your told, but there's fine line between being ordered to do something or being forced to do something. If your being forced to do something that is not in line with your normal work duties or you know I unsafe, then there's a ethics problem. The NS is having a breach of contract battle right now with the unions, because engineers are being told to do conductor and switchmen duties. There's a union contract that prevents the company from doing just that. Regardless of your personal views of union and non-union employees, there's still that LEGAL contract that both sides have to follow. Bottom line is that these companies that have been pushing for maximum profits, also now have to think about how far they can push their employees before those employees take matters into their own hands. All I can say is that its about damn time the unions stepped up and did something.
Times there a changing better learn how to treat all employees well or risk being without a workforce that is productive. I literally don’t know of any of my coworkers that is happy.
@eoo is right. I'm a non-agreement UP employee, I signed a contract by being employed, a union agreed contract. There's always a choice.
@eoo Welcome the new generation. Millennials don’t bow down to authority. Get with the times.
@eoo You sound like a puppet. I bet your wife owns you.
It’s pretty simple: When you work for somebody, you do as you are told or you don’t have a job for long. If you want to think independently and do as you want then start your own company.