Shares of Union Pacific Corp. UNP, -2.25% shed 1.0% in premarket trading Tuesday, after the railroad operator reported fourth-quarter profit and revenue that came up shy of Wall Street expectations, as continued challenges in hiring, inflation and extreme winter weather were weighed against growth in carloads.
Who'd have thought that years of employee abuse and random and unnecessary layoffs would make people reluctant to join UP? Oh, wait, all of us did!