How can anyone in management not see how this place is being ran from the top down. If the shareholders are so smart why can they see past the dollar signs. The funny math when it comes to work forces is not working. The pressure test has failed. Time to hire and replace some people. To much work for the rest of the people still here
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I'm only making an educated guess here, but I'm getting the feeling that many people won't be sticking around if the merger goes through. The management at both companies don't know what they're doing, they're making up rules just to get people fired, they're standardizing productivity numbers that just aren't possible just to write people up and people are just leaving because they're sick of the BS!
NS is just as terrible. I work at a hump yard shop count is up none of our management has any experience in frieght car repairs only how to harass about rules and productivity.
What are they supposed to learn? All of them in Omaha are doing what Wall Street is telling them to do, and none of the a$$ clowns on Wall Street give two sh1ts about the business! The only thing either one them care about is their money. The UP execs want you to quit, so they don't have to have to announce anything about layoffs. They're certainly not going to hire anyone to replace anyone. The mechanical management side of things is tweaking their productivity demands to numbers that just aren't possible in some locations already. They're literally setting the remainder of the people up to fail. They want you to leave on your own! There's management that were carmen for years, that are now somehow in charge of locomotive maintenance operations. They're also the ones requesting higher productivity numbers, and yet they can't even do the work or know how to do the work required to achieve the numbers they want. Director Lomas in Chicago is a good example of someone who has no clue of what he's doing, but will sit in an office and b!tch to everyone about what he wants but has no F-ing clue on how to do it himself. He needs to be fired badly! So, you ask when will they learn? The answer is never! The higher ups are going to tweak and modify every rule they can to eliminate as many people as they can without having to announce layoffs that could potentially scare investors. No one in Omaha cares! They're all doing want Vena wants! Vena is doing what he wants and he knows he can leave at anytime. When it gets bad and he's forced to deal with the issues, he'll do the exact same thing he did the first time! He'll run away to avoid being questioned for bad operational decisions, and leave everyone else left to answer for his mistakes. Sound familiar?
The shareholders only see the money! The shareholders don't care at all about how they get it or what the company does to get them that money. The shareholders know that they can move their money to another stock when the UP stock starts to fall. Why should they care? The UP isn't going to learn until Vena destroys the company, and quickly leaves just before the sh1t hits the fan just like it did the first time he was there. You know that time when the UP got called in for questioning in front of the government body for really bad service. Where was Vena then? Oh yeah he quickly left the company to sit on the board for FedEx. Did they learn then? Nope! They rehired him to play CEO, which is why the UP is where it is now.
Their business means their rules.
I'd run through a brick wall for this company, my manager motivates me to give my all. I even give my wife
Go to work and not cry about it. Have your union fight for you lol. Get to work