Yet another safety survey UP is asking us to complete. It's on your MyUp page ,where they send you messages. I did not fill in the survey. .
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You cry when we don't listens to you and then you cry when we put a survey out to listen to you. Quit your moaning and just fill it out. It's not like you do anything else all day. Plus, it's "anonymous". Only management can see who filled it out.
I didn't do the last survey or the one before that either. The surveys do absolutely nothing. The id--ts are combing through the surveys to find any of them that aren't attacking the company and using only those for future decision making. So what's the point of the survey again if a very large portion of them are being ignored anyways? Can someone from management please post an answer to that question?
Managers have little or no idea what is required to repair locomotives or worse how to make repairs when out in the field. These same dummies what to make appear that they were in control of the situation and made all the major decisions. When in fact they just want to know what and how you decided to make necessary repairs.
They in turn regurgitate up the chain of command to impress their bosses, when in fact they haven't a clue. Not what you know but who you b--w.
If any effort is made to increase safety, management will of course just add those tasks to be done to the already hopelessly over extended and over loaded employees. When the employees work to complete those tasks, those same employees will just be yelled at for whatever long list of other things dont get done. Bcuz managers will not communicate to the managers above them that there isnt enough people. Its managers that make UP unsafe.
Couldnt have said it better than the first comment. Less Chiefs more Indians. I swear I have 5 people tell me the same thing if there's an issue for me to fix.
LOL! Yeah I'll get right on that survey! I have a very simple answer to the safety issues at the UP. LEAVE PEOPLE ALONE TO DO THEIR DAM WORK! How hard is that? The UP's answer to safety issues is even more unnecessary management following employees around, hoping for a rule violation write-up, and watching those employees get sent home for rule that was made up entirely or amended so that it's impossible to not break. Now there's yet another survey for employees to fill out. Ok, for what? To further address safety concerns? For a progress report on safety issues that have been resolved. Fortunately there's a very easy to follow way to solve the safety and morale issues at the UP. ONE; Dismiss a very large portion of the management team. You don't need them! The employees know what their job is and how to do it. The UP doesn't need cubicle commandos intervening in a job they probably can't physically do anyways. TWO; Service, repair and maintain the equipment. There's many shops and service tracks that are all too often bypassed in the interest of getting the train to meet it's first OS. Now there's trains everyday that are having multiple failures or running out of fuel during it's trip, but it at least made it's first OS though. THREE; HIRE MORE PEOPLE! You can't run a train with no one available to run it. I'm sure someone will chime in and say something stupid that automated trains are coming very soon or something stupid like that. Maybe they are, but they're not here now. FOUR; Have a competent management team engage with whatever employees are left in a trust building exercise instead of a propaganda brain-washing seminar. The employees have to trust the management teams and vice versa. If neither side can trust one another, then productivity goes down real fast. The employees on the ground were hired for a reason, so again LEAVE US ALONE!