What’s the story? Can’t they behave? Rules for thee but not for me.
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Houston has always been a mismanaged boondoggle. The management over the past several years has been worse than normal with decisions being self-serving rather than what is best for the entire operation. Field managers constantly nagging anyone and everyone because they don't understand an operating plan and can't read a CAD screen. The place is a joke which is why every train coming into Houston has to have a second and third crew.
Safety dude was a fraud. Preached about safety for years then fired for covering up injuries. Explain that.
Well the ones that were fired were top dogs in their own minds. They were on the executive pay scale.
UP doesn’t do sh-t here, cause they don’t own this site. It’s a private website with hundreds of forums and just a few rules, one of which is that posting people’s names is not allowed (Fritz and Vena and other top dogs are public figures already, that’s why posts containing their names don’t get deleted).
Regional headquarters in Houston
Someone is deleting names. Look up the job titles. A couple of General managers Superintendents,directors, a general director and safety vp….so far.
Give me a list of the arseholes who got laid off. I don't buy it.
If they were attempting to hide injuries and derailments, wouldn't' that be at the regional executive level?
What were they hiding?
Doesn’t this seem bigger than Houston? Wasn’t the entire south implicated?
Great don’t need them!!
I guess the UP sensor police didn’t like people calling out their boys. Some deleted posts here.
Good
@1xic- I couldn’t agree more. Most of them got their diplomas from diploma mill University of Phoenix online while on duty, yet they gripe at you if you take a minute to text your spouse to check on your family.
Jenkins we got good news and bad news. The good news is we get to fire an employee today. The bad news is it’s you. Sign the ftx and pack your bags.
Who was let go? I remember a long list of douchebags including one guy who had never set foot in a college and continued to call himself “director of bridge maintenance” despite being assigned a new (lower) title. Even wore “DBM” on his hard hat.
I met exactly one (1) manager who held credible qualifications matching his role and level of responsibility while I was there. Every other manager I met, including the “DBM”, should have been digging holes or cleaning porta-potties somewhere.
Unfortunately no. They didn’t get to be a senior manager by being a good person.