Maybe you should have bought UP stock and funded your retirement and savings first instead of blowing your money on the latest 4 x 4 Truck to show off in the parking lot. Right now you can put $26,000 a year away in a 401k… you can go to college for free…. If you’ve been here 15 years and your living paycheck to paycheck then you need to take a look at yourself instead of blaming the company for your failures. If your being honest with yourself, the only thing Jim Vena wanted from employees was to stay engaged and safely complete their work duties. But she wanted to be paid to warm a chair in the break room or sleep on the conductor side of the locomotive.
Did you further your education? Did you learn another skill here at the railroad? Or did you just take your time getting your paperwork sitting on your a-s in the crew room. Did you take shortcuts? When you focused on complaining and getting an early quit?
If so don’t be mad at the people who actually put the effort in to go to college or work their way up the ranks. It’s just sour grapes on your part. Cream rises to the top. The rest is just mediocre agreement employees. Most of the agreement employees don’t have any other options and that’s why they stay here. They want a free ride but it’s coming to a stop as soon as they start filtering the formal incarcerated people to take jobs that you don’t really want to do.
The locomotives are getting SMARTER…are you?