I guess management has a new policy in place that allows them to not only outright bully employees, but Vena even allows his management team to threaten employees to “go outside and fight”. Happened this week at our facility. Really? Management has come to threats of violence, on property and on duty, to fight employees in the parking lot? I guess it’s ok if they are doing it in the name of protecting the company.
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Smelly smell, you dont need 8 managers but the managers think they need all the insulation they can get. Look at how the system is structured. How many are on rules committee? In offices are people who review, study, change, and create the rules, dozens of them. Thats all they do. Then when some poor employee is trying to actually perform work and abide by every rule and is being pressured and rushed by managers to get more done quicker and quicker doesnt remember a rule that employee has dozens of managers review that one moment scenario for weeks to months. Then the employee goes into a hearing against a dozen or so managers who spent hundred to thousands of hours collectively to careful dissect the one thing this employee did wrong. Would that one mistake have happened if an equal amount of employees had been on hand to collectively complete the task? No, but managers need the layers of management to collectively gang up and place blame on one employee when something goes wrong.
The animosity is so thick ya have to cut through it. You can feel the tension. UP to top heavy anyways. Don't need 8 managers telling us the same thing.
How about Bill Giles?
Please oh please send some of these managers my way. He-l send 3 executives and I'll deal with all 3 at once.
They are making it a hostile workplace. If that happens to you remain calm and polite . Don’t answer with anger or violence . Later take some notes. Report everything to value line . Keep reporting their bad behavior . Upper management keeps track of what is reported to value line .
I didnt witness an as--ult threat, but a few days ago our superintendent threatened to fire a conductor. The conductor had already completed his orig duty and was about to tie up. His engineer had already tied up. The super told him to go assist a different engineer and the conductor said he wasnt sure exactly how to do what the super was asking him to do. Immediately after the conductor said he didnt know what the super was asking him to do, the super begins visibly getting angry and starts yelling that he is going to “fire his a$s” in front of several witnesses. The conductor never refused to do anything, the conductor never yelled, or argued. The conductor just told the super he didnt understand what the super was asking him to do. There is an investigation and a hearing scheduled. No one at UP should ever be verbally abused or have their job threatened for not understanding something.
I'd like to see ANY manager take a swing at me. Go outside and fight you say? No I don't think so! Any act of aggression by any management towards myself or my co-workers WILL be met with very severe and swift consequences, regardless of location. I really hope that this post is not true though.
Remember this, with non-agreement it’s innocent until proven guilty. With agreement it’s guilty until proven innocent.
As a veteran employee, I'm not the young buck I once was. But if any manager ever threatened me or someone else in front of me I'd gladly allow them to show me what they've got and then show them what decades of actually working out on the track does to a man. These managers can't do the work, these managers can't even understand the work. So whatever mma nonsense they've learned in an air conditioned gym will have the same results as their work. Now if there was a banana swallowing contest, I'm sure these managers are world class champions.