Thread regarding BNSF Railway layoffs

Reposting because BNSF managers trying to bury with fluff so it does show at top

Reposting because BNSF has mangers posting fluff, the company is great, stop complaining posts on here to bury the information

Through attrition and following the lead of NS and UP based on consulting by Jim Vena, BNSF is staging for the furlough of 400 mech employees between Jan and Feb 2025. BNSF in conjunction with peak season profits and down term normally observed at the end of December, and uncertainty following the upcoming November elections, has also began the preparations for furloughs of approximately 400 TY&E system wide and 300 MOW workers system wide to account for lost volume associated with slowed rail traffic during winter months and weather related events during the same event, According to Kendall Sloan and various spokespersons within BNSF speaking through anonymity, BNSF has began preparing for furloughs through conditional offers of employment being offered to account for lost workers who will choose not to return following a seasonal layoff. This matches both BNSF and Ancora holdings plans to streamline profits in class 1 railroads through the implementation of an as needed staffing plan that intends to create quarterly short term increases in profit through worker layoffs for non exempt employees and benefit package cuts to exempt employees. While BNSF states that it is not implementing a progressive railroading plan, its plan is to reduce staffing to match the ability of trains to run with less workers to include in the southern trans con, where its ability to move more freight with longer trains and new fueling plans has resulted in the ability to inspect utilizing wayside readers and camera systems to identify defects, while eliminating delays that it considers to be associated with worker based inspections outside of mechanical facilities. In conjunction with partnerships with the FRA and the ability to receive in route waivers through digital flagging, and an ability to allow locomotives and rail cars to operate until they reach a repair facility without being removed from service unless deemed as an emergency or specifically necessary to operate repair will, based on BNSF operating strategy, reduce dwell, down time based on in route inspections, cost to customers, and BNSF overhead with regard to operating expenses

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Once again, the person that posted this must not have seen the careers page so lets try this again.

5 10 15 20 25 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38, as of this reply today there are 38 conductor trainee positions posted and 32 supervisor management positions. When they do this, they are about to either lay off, eliminate, or fire managers, in an effort to bring in and restructure the management chain. Then, because they understand they have gained business they have to hire manpower known as crews to do the work. Typically, when a manager has been here 7 and under years with less than 3 promotions or less than 3 transfers, they fire them. So, whomever posted this your wrong by all measures and it goes to show your in fear of losing your job. I been out here 22 years bud, and they will relocate a manager to a whole new terminal then fire them. I can't say I'm sorry you're in fear of losing your job, but you applied for it. At this point in the BNSF life, they want to move product and trains, and the only thing you managers are moving is your mouth. We wish you luck looking for another career. Be encouraged and hey sorry you are getting fired before the holidays.

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I’ve been visiting this site site for ages and somehow I missed this - there’s a big blue “active”button right above the first thread that sorts threads by the recent activity.

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Please, the people can't even read and write. This is basic managerial accounting, shed cost of employees to show cost on a line that does not exist. They cut 1000 jobs at $100,000 a year for 4 months, which is $33,333.33 x 1000 jobs = $33,333,330.00 so your trimming 33 million because you will bring people back in 4 months, then you have to rehire, retrain the same amount of employees which cost $26,485,556.00 so they did all this to show on paper they saved 7mm, then we have to account for all the lawsuits, that's always nearly 700mm per year. Guys, listen these managers cannot read and write yet alone count, The stock is backed by majority BNSF - Berkshire money, these is a game they keep playing called cooking the books, running the same trains, the same engines, back and forth in reality all they have to do is restructure the leadership and mgmt. They have all these backwards donkey managers walking around on pride and ego, and guess what I did some research 4 managers that act a donkey all the time, please tell me why they are 6-9 payments behind on their mortgages, and credit scores in the 590's. You see they forget that everybody knows somebody, they seem to forget that they seem to forget they are the only people with access to information. They are not doing nothing about nothing. She already said, she will be cutting 14% in MGMT late November, they always lay off and fire 2 weeks before thanksgiving. No TEY will be cut, nor mechanical will be cut. Do you really want to hear a joke? Please tell me why 3 of these so-called leaders mgrs. whatever they call themselves, applied for conductor trainee.... To all the little managers posting and watching and doing the most, this has nothing to do with us, we will still be here and if not we will be paid via a lawsuit so it does not matter, But what does matter is you mgrs. will lose your job, your house, your car, your wives, then your kids want even talk to you so maybe you managers should go sit in your little car and ask yourself is this job really worth you losing everything because over here, we are good. We are not bothered by all this craziness, we don't even care because if you could do anything then do it, stop talking about it and be about. Do whatever you think is best because at the end of the day your wife will be leaving you. These managers wives just sit and roll their eyes at them, you're not even a real man or woman you're a joke and let's not let your wife tell the stories of how scared you managers are. Take a seat, and go reconsider your career, because railroading will never stop, there is no manager, CEO, VP, consultant that will ever change that so keep spending your money, wasting time because you managers will be fired, before us at least we have the option to return you managers don't. So, in the meantime between time keep kicking your shiny shoes in the dirt. Oh, and that's the first thing you learn when you take an MBA course cut from the top down, not the bottom up, but like we said you guys just aren't the smartest all these managers with these online degrees.

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Post ID: @ewg+1vaXq6pI

Run the likes up and share let the corporate piranhas know that we the workers and the furloughed workers know what they are planning to do and our voices won’t be silenced anymore

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