Been offered a position to go back don’t know if it’s a good idea.
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It's worth it if you can put up with the severe amount of BS. If you do go back, then I wouldn't get comfortable though. I'm sorry but there's just too many stories floating around out there of people being offered their job back, only to be let go again a short time after because the work slowed down. The company is using people during an uptick in work and throwing them out the door again when it slows down. If you don't mind being laid off several times and having ZERO job stability from the same company during your career, then I'd say go for it. The worst they can do to you is keep laying you off.
Not unless you plan on moving everytime the stocks drop.
The shear cuts of maintenance and the butchering of fully staffed shops like Palestine are a travesty.
Lower management is either trying to get to retirement and upper management are building up false stock so they can sell.
If you have ever seen an upside down pyramid on a company it's at Union Pacific.
If govt regulators who over see the industry can see the need for more employees, if some middle management sees the need for more employees, if the front line employees report they are over extended, the unions keep trying to communicate to anyone who will listen the need for more employees, etc etc. How can so few who will say contradictory things (out right lies) like after a terrible derailment (which was fully preventable if there was an adequately staffed qualified workforce) they will claim the railroad is safer than ever. Its those few who decide and bring about to not have a fully trained, fully staffed workforce. Those few decide to have just enough employees to barely react to repairing something and eventually get trains moving again. Not discussing te&y, but engineering and mechanical are ridiculously understaffed. Maybe just maybe just in engineering if the maintenance groups of track was tripled in headcount and signal doubled in their headcount things could start to be done properly AFTER those new employees were fully trained (not just shown once and maybe tasked w/ a cbt). But all Ive seen are te&y new hires in clumps of groups in the yards either vaping or smoking something that smells like mari--ana. One look at those “trainees” and anyone could tell 90% of em were not gonna stay marked up and work nites, weekends, and holidays. Meanwhile trucks that were supposed to replaced 2+ years ago spend more and more time in the shop and then they send stupid emails complaining about being overbudget on vehicle maintenance. Gee why are we over budget? I guess we were supposed to be over budget only after the stock got to $300? Thats sad, after all the cuts and ruination that will take at least a decade to fix, it is almost pleasurable to see their failure that the stock never got to $300.
AN OPINION I HAVE HEARD ON THIS
There has been a substantial pressure on lower managers to find and MAPS employees. The middle management sees the need for adding employees; however, they are hogtied with fear of termination for not pushing the leanest plan. Upper management are trying to justify how they’re going to drive shareholder returns.
The equipment and material are showing symptoms of deferred maintenance. The union is cowering under the pressure.
Be prepared to work hard and have a revolving door of lower managers with no job security stressed to the gills.
Actually that’s every railroad it’s the same thing where Iam at just tired of getting bounced around from location to location
No it’s not , company going in wrong direction with absolutely I appreciation for the employees .