You can't tell me that the management's behavior is normal or justified by the end results. They continue to willingly destroy the workforce for no reason. What do they gain out of it? I'm not even talking about cuts, but everything else they've done to make our lives as miserable as possible. What's the point?
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Management just does what the higher ups tell them to do if they want to save money abolish their jobs they do nothing to help get the job done
@upd, employees are the biggest expense at almost any corporation, especially those that are labor intensive like railroads. Of course a locomotive is more expensive than one employee (that argument doesn’t even make sense), but you are not seeing the total picture. Labor is UP’s largest expense and then other things like fuel costs follow. It’s basic economics that employees are the largest cost (salary and benefits that are about even with the salary cost for employers), and they are the biggest liability due to the possibility of injury, sickness, etc. All railroads post their annual reports, you should read them sometime (this might help you understand this better). I don’t like UP or the way it treats its employees, but like every company if they can make a profit and eliminate your job they will not hesitate to do so.
I think the higher ups are so insulated they don’t want nderstamd what’s really going on, and any middle manager that dares tell them the truth they are fired
@whx I'm having a hard time understanding your logic when you said the employees are the biggest expense of the railroad. Can you point out any employee that cost the same as a locomotive? Do you know how much the railroads spend on fuel each year? Do you know how much they spend on equipment? Do you know how much they have spent on crossing accidents and derailments? Dont forget to add the cost of lawsuit settlements they had to pay. If the UP employees are just numbers and nothing else, then they could all just leave. I wonder how much they would pay people to come back to work, after everyone walked off? So your comment could be partially true if you think about it. The truth is that the people of the UP are more than just numbers. They're the reason the UP has lasted for 160+ years. I can agree with you to a point, but you have to see what's going on at different companies around the nation in regards to workplace practices. Employees aren't laying down and taking it anymore. The UP needs to heed the warning and start treating its employees right, or risk becoming a historical statistic of its own
telling the warden the guards are being mean to you certainly does'nt work!
I resemble that remark.
I too have thought about this and this is where I am at w/ it right now. I think it is a combination of the managers themselves not having the ability (also alot of em the desire) to manage things different and they themselves are burnt out. I think so many are just going thru the motions, keeping a low profile, waiting time out and hoping somehow someone else will make things get better. I myself have a infamously terrible inept manager. The simple things he could do is have a better attitude, be honest, be fair, and stop attempting to manipulate people and information to his selfish benefit. But he is so miserable here at his job, he has no desire to help in any way so that someone else might have any sort of positive experience. We actually watch him enjoy making someone else miserable. And before some manager troll says “all managers want employees to succeed so that their job is easier” stop. This manager never suffers beyond being yelled at for things he does wrong or screws up.
It’s easily explained in three words: “they don’t care.” You are just a number and nothing else to the company. Employees are the biggest expense and liability to a corporation and UP treats its employees almost as adversaries instead of teammates. The execs and board would love to run UP with zero employees, but can’t do this yet. Anyone that believes their contribution to UP is appreciated is delusional or worse. I know we all have to work somewhere, and I am not advocating for anyone to leave that doesn’t want to, but there are other companies hiring and most of you do have other options.