Thread regarding Union Pacific Corp. layoffs

@inf You laid out everything that the UP is. You mentioned about being safe and productive, and yet you indirectly described the UP management. If you weren't efficient at the UP, then you get to be a manager. If you have a brain and can actually make decisions without using a flow chart to make said decisions, then you get threatened with termination. You mentioned about setting expectations. Does that go for everyone? Everyone on the ground has "expectations", but what about the management that gives the orders? The management team has almost no liability when things go to sh1t in a hurry. Nope, they just find whoever they can to blame, even though it was that very management that gave those orders and threatened the folks on the ground with termination or insubordination. You can't move the goal post when someone is trying to kick a field goal. The UP management is constantly setting expectations, and then changing expectations without telling ANYONE! Those decisions made by the current management team is why the UP is having so many problems right now. There's not a single person that knows what's going to happen at the UP anymore. So you're argument of expectations is pointless. This is and always has been a managing by fear tactic. You're loyalty to the UP is breathtaking in your post, but you need to open your eyes a bit further. Stick around and see what happens when the report comes out for the unmanned train that was recorded doing 100+ MPH before it derailed.

@inf-You must be a manager to have said something like that. I believe what the OP said is true. I’m sure the folks at Palestine TX heard the same things tried their best and look at what they’ve been through the last 4 years. UP even went as far as to take it to court to close that facility.

This is beyond safety and productivity. You sound like an unintelligent a-s. That’s had his head in the dirt

So whats new? Whats new is the expectation to follow all rules, meet all standards with the ridiculously small amount of time available to do the needed work. When the work load is the same (or more) but the amount of time to do the work is less, you need MORE people to ensure production. MORE people, not less. I am tired of working 7 days a week and still not getting everything done. Dont bother w/ the smart a$$ quip of “quit, go work somewhere else” I am a good and loyal employee, UP needs more like me, not less.

So, what’s new with any of this? Show me any industry that doesn’t do what you said. If you owned a business you would expect your employees to work safely and as efficiently as possible. If they weren’t productive you probably couldn’t stay in business. This isn’t managing by fear, it’s setting expectations so everyone knows what they need to do to keep their jobs. Go find you a job somewhere else and ask if they don’t expect you to work safely and be productive. I don’t think that company exists.