Common sense would lead a reasonable person to believe UP learned a lesson recently in California when all the freight theft spiked. UP needs more special agents to protect customers freight, UP property, and ensure other UP employees are safe from crime while they are at work. Recently a criminal got into a locomotive, drove it onto the mainline and ran thru switches. What if that locomotive joy ride would've gotten onto the mainline seconds in front of a z train? I remember in the 90's switch men or roundhouse forces would report trespassers climbing on or getting inside a locomotive and within minutes a nearby on duty special agent would remove the trespasser. You didnt even have to call rmcc, you just asked for the nearest PO over the radio. Being on UP property was safer back then. Now homeless people are everywhere on company property, interrupt employees while working mostly asking for money, and even reports of trespassers stealing from or getting into UP trucks and driving off. Call rmcc and they want local municipal police to handle trespassers. Well since all the psr layoffs who has time to wait 1-2 hours for city police to show up and then guide them to where the crime is? This is what's wrong w/ UP, management wants to do and provide the bare minimum to move freight while hypocritically intimidating and coercing any employee who actually works to do everything 5,6,7 people and multiple different crafts used to do.
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That's why some are refusing to report trespassers. The UP has managers who are so clueless, that they don't even know who works under them. The trespassers have gone to safety stores and bought safety vests to blend in and steal sh1t. Trespassers/homeless folks have also started arming themselves. What the CEO won't acknowledge is that safety starts at the very top. If he's not willing to support the employees of the UP, then why should any UP employee step up to support the company? In other words, if he doesn't care, then why should we? The UP is only doing what's necessary on a case by case basis. If the problems are bad enough, only then will something be done about it. The UP hasn't had a major derailment like the NS did in Ohio. The NS changed their game plan real fast after that derailment. Now a person with at least one eye and shred a logical thought would agree that the NS learned their lesson, which is why they got away from the furloughing. Along comes the UP! The UP hasn't learned their lesson at all. If they did, then they wouldn't have brought back the person who's largely responsible for the problems in the first place. Nope it was easier to blame Fritz and sh1tcan him for the decisions made by Vena! Fritz wasn't a good CEO, but he knew the UP was in trouble before he was let go. The hedgies decided to bring back Vena again. So I have to ask what exactly was the lesson that the UP supposed to learn? The first PSR run was started by Vena and Fritz, which ended badly for Fritz. This second PSR run was started by Vena, Whited, and McCarthy. Anyone want to take a guess as to how it's going to end this time? A race car in last place doesn't suddenly become first place when the other race cars are going faster and catch them.
Do managers write up the homeless people for not wearing PPE like they do the employees that are actually working?