Growing mechanical territory for exhausted and detached Mechanical Managers and TCI’s is hard to watch. What will it take? This isn’t sustainable. An unrelenting list of Bad Orders strung across hundreds of miles of track. You can feel the souls of the men changing from a stressful collaboration giving it all to keep post-layoff conditions running…….. to an apathetic shock with muttering moments of indignation. Horrified at the new existence, knowing where this is going, they drone away against unreasonable demands and conditions. A depression is creeping through the men, please adjust the forces before we lose some of the best hands to other companies. There is no safe avenue to ask this without risking being cut.
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Betcha won’t hear them advertise that information on the website.
Sounds like someone from Kansas to me. They have 2 TCIs covering 800 miles of mainline and 3 “closed” shops.
It's probably the North Platte guy. He's always saying something d-mb
@ntl-You must be a manager to have spouted off something like that.
It smells like dead fish in here.
I dont think its as simple as “quitting”. UP invests alot of money in training employees. Senior employees transfer alot of knowledge into younger employees. I have had coworkers quit since PSR, it was horrible. Yeah my manager had to stress over figuring out who was gonna cover the empty positions work, but my manager did not have to do his work and someone else’s,
I did.
@nt1, that’s a stupid answer. That’s the mentality of the a--holes that brought us PSR, and those that have never really worked a day in their life. Employees make an organization, but this is something the executives and investors have either forgotten or don’t acknowledge. The answer is for corporations to do the right thing by their workforces, not to say either accept unsustainable work conditions or quit. The mentality of not caring about others and only about profits in this country needs to change.
Quit, go get a different job. Simple
Welcome to PSR, that's how all is Signal Maintainers felt when they cut ALL the relief maintainers and extended everyone's territory. More to test and maintain with less people. It's awesome ain't it. MERICA
Your forced to pencil whip inspections and high ball trains with a glance to keep trains moving. The PSR way.
And they keep highballing the Bad orders and not legally air testing!!