Every thread on this site is nothing more than to tear fellow workers down, belittle people, create strife, create divide/division. Very little info is steeped in reality or truth and when it is, it is already common knowledge.... you have no unknown tidbits, you haven’t overheard anything because someones door was left open. The only reality is, that a company is moving in a different direction, which is what all companies do repeatedly to stay competitive. Your feelings are hurt and so you lash out repeatedly with emotion but very little factual information. Just because you don’t like something doesn’t necessarily make it unethical.... it means you don’t agree, but that doesn’t make it unethical. It is just a bunch of miserable folks constantly stirring the pot and trying to bring down their peers with them. You create this toxic environment and you have the power to change it.
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If you think we are really at 150k carloadings a week you're drunk. So, that raises the question, "Is reporting false numbers to shareholders unethical?"
Idk, just reporting the facts
@1jfj If you don't like the comments here then don't come to the website and don't read them. Problem solved.
Are you going keep putting up walls of text until everyone agrees with you? Good luck with that.
The same thread has been posted dozens of times now. People whining that we’re too negative on a website they volunteer to come to and read the comments. That’s why people assume it is management. Because no one is dumb enough to continue to come to a website they hate.
Just because you disagree with the post doesn’t mean it’s wrong. I don’t like the direction the company has taken, like most on this site. I also don’t like how some are only in here to tear down others. Every post that offers a different opinion isn’t from a manager or a “yes man.” As for ethics, I agree there was and still is unethical behavior from management. I also have seton unethical behavior from craft workers. We are all human regardless of title and no one group is perfect. Nobody except the executives and board of directors likes PSR. We are all forced to live with it as long as we choose to work here.
Somebody crack open a window. This is the smelliest post of 2020. I saw a guy puke in a urinal during a football game once but this is worse.
Ok so a CEO thats has lied to its employees is ethical? A CEO that has laid people off after posting record profits year after year is ethical? UP managers that setup employees for a write up is ethical? UP managers that have threatened termination for promoting unsafe practices is ethical? Managers fast tracking car and locomotive inspections is ethical? Did I miss something? Maybe you can tell the rest of us what that is. The CEO has done alot that most, if not all of us have disagreements with. It's interesting though that you jumped right to ethics though. Another interesting point of your rant is that you sort of exposed yourself as a yes man. If you have a problem with people airing out their grievances, then you came to the wrong site. You should actually reread about ethical behaviors, and what can be construed as unethical in a corporate setting. If you want to continue to post on here, then you should actually know what your talking about. Try posting something relevant instead of a obviously biased opinion.
@jmw Nobody is going to read your wall of text.
There’s this thing called a paragraph. We all learned about it elementary school. Use it.
Every corporation treats its employees as a number. The truth is we are expendable assets. When you stop being an asset you are let go. This is nothing new to any company. Those of us that have worked in industries other than railroading recognize this. As for the toxic employee comment, I have known toxic, unethical employees both union and management. Neither group are all bad or good, just like in all facets of life.
Union Pacific has to be the most toxic company ever not the employees Managers are toxic too
It’s a fair post. Corporations are in it for profit and to reward shareholders. Workers should stick together. Unions are the best if not the only way to do that. Union corruption is best combated by members staying involved and holding leaders feet to the fire.
The hard fact is that, it's not just a railroad issue. I'm a furloughed employee, when I hired on, I knew that there was always a chance of furloughs. It's the railroad, the profit will always be far more important than the workers that sacrifice everything to make it profitable. The railroad industry has always been that way since it was created. I didn't hire on just for the pay or insurance, its what I've wanted to do. I'm a 3rd generation railroader. I've grown up knowing the pros and cons of this industry. My grandfather and my father both told me that I will only be a number and to increase profit I can get furloughed. The railroad is a life style that you sacrifice family for. Its nothing personal that I got furloughed, any large corporations will cut numbers to increase profit. All the railroads are going through this phase. This happened in the 60s to the late 70s. Its nothing but business. BNSF which if you look back into history was Burlington then merged with the Great Northern and in the late 90s to mid 2000s merged with Santa Fe railroad. Though they are owned by William Buffett it's also part of the Berkshire Hathaway corporation which on turn answers to SHARE HOLDERS. This industry isn't about PSR due to the fact that PSR has had many different names in this industry before PSR. There one goal is to increase Profit and it's just Business. This is the life style, whether you agree with it or not. The point is that you as I am are nothing but a Number and that is all we are. If you think you can run this company or any large corporations that answers to share HOLDERS, do it. Put your money where your mouth is and become the CEO/President of UPRR. Until then you are FURLOUGHED just as I am. Be thankful for the fact that you have 4 months of health insurance coverage and that you have call back rights. Most businesses when you get laid off they lose everything.
Isn't this the same company that it's empire was built on the back of $lave labor?
Please correct me if I'm wrong.
I'll wait.
We're Railroaders, we do this to each other at lunch..... Why stop here?
@OP Is there supposed to be a point to your little tirade?
BTW, there's nothing compelling you or anyone else to use this website. If you don't like what you see here then go away. You won't be missed.
The same guy or girl posts a similar thread to this one every so often when he gets his feelings hurt. That thread about glass palace employees calling themselves heroes must’ve hit too close to home.
We are the sorry pieces of $hit that you trained us to be. By the way, breaking federal laws and contractual agreements IS unethical.
Union Pacific, isn't that the company who employed an executive who's son (spoiled rich brat) keep all the protesting going at a major university?
Do you smell what I smell? This post is pure management. Union Pacific is toxic.
Ironic that you are using this board to trash everyone else, doing the exact thing you are belittling everyone else for doing. Way to take the high road.