UP is surviving...not thriving...
And that's only due to them owning a railroad line and not due to any amazing management decisions..
At this point they're like a sh–ty DMV... customers only put up with it because they have to…
Well said @11EOceXc-2zqi .
@3zul they'll just hire someone else as bad or worse and probably with less experience. They've stooped to suing managers if they quit within a year of being hired to keep them from quitting. Think about the kind of manager you get as a result.
Thanks for the hat tip.... 8^)
I had a back and forth about this with a hardcore UP foamer on the original thread. What foamers don't get is that UP is "successful" because they're part of a duopoly on freight rail traffic in the western two-thirds of the country. By the average foamer's standards, the state DMV is also a successful enterprise. The same people conveniently forget that UP began as a government (read: public sector) company, and benefited from large public subsidies and land grants for decades.
UP stands as a shining example of corporate welfare. They aren't capitalists. They're monopolists with a profit motive.
Not to mention all the mineral rights , water rights, land rights ,easement rights that Union Pacific own! It involves more then moving trains, they make money without moving trains the greedy phuuucks
So stunning and brave. Thanks for the input.