They will get to 55 percent operating ratio know matter the cost. They will get stock prices up over 250 at all cost. The Glass Palace doesn't care about employee's. It cares about their own retirement and when to jump ship. The board is in on it as well. Good luck men and women more furloughs are coming. They are not even close to the end. This is only the calm before the storm hits.
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Oh yeah! You’re the guy that’s full of himself. I remember you. You have a scewed vision of the world around you.
2mrp-
I think we've encountered each other here before. I recognize the sentence fragments and the ad hominem attacks that fail to address the premise of the opposing argument.
I'm guessing you'll do what you've done before and just keep this going by ratcheting up the attacks until the other person gets tired of responding, at which point you will claim to have won because you got in the last word. I'll make it easy for you and leave it on the table. I have better things to do.
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.
So you got taken down a notch with your uneducated comment and you blame others. Got it.
2bsm - That isn't what I said.
Good MBA programs teach you how to read and how to apply context. If you want to argue go elsewhere. You're not adding anything to the conversation.
@1ona: It gets to a point where there's nothing else left to say.
One of the last things I said to an agreement employee on my way out was "If I had a union, I would go on strike". Maybe the agreement people should try this. I know complaining about UP online isn't go to get them to change how they treat their people. A general strike over safety might get their attention though.
What do you all have to lose?
A good MBA program does not teach you not to set business goals or to not pay attention to operating ratios.
I never understood the G55 metric. They spent a significant amount of time beating this number into the heads of new managers, but they never actually explained the meaning of the number or how/why they decided on it as a metric.
I always thought that they decided on "G55" because it looks good in a Power Point presentation and has a nice ring to it. I worked for a F500 company before I worked for UP, and I work for a F100 company now. I've never seen any operating strategy based on such a hazy number before or since. This is the kind of thing they teach you to avoid doing in a good MBA program.
They can get to 0 percent if they just go out of business. No trains = no expenses. Genius
G55 s—s. UP s—s. Layoffs s—.
This post really added a lot to the conversation.
I wouldn’t give Vena a pass just cause he’s from the outside. You could easily flip around the logic and say the problem is Harrison, Vena, and others like him that originally started the PSR mess. Without them we wouldn’t even have this discussion
The problem isn’t Vena or any of the people brought in from the outside. The problems are the people that got us to a point where the board thought we needed a Vena. The problem is the Board, Fritz, Lischer, Keller, Whited, Rocker, Scott. Vena didn’t come looking for UP he’s just the guy that happens to be the grim reaper that our old leadership went looking for because they are incapable of leading. Maybe this is what happens when you only hire and promote your friends instead of actual talent?
The stock will split before it ever gets to $250/share
The Walk of Shame, been there done that. Company could care less about its employees. I’ve seen some dedicated employees walked off property, but I was given a 6 month severance which is better then a 2 week notice.
Karen in the "glass palace" making $55,000 in marketing isn't your enemy. she and her friends are getting walked out along with everyone else. there's a handful of people in that building on the top floors ruining the company, but it's mostly just people like you regretting they took the job and looking for a way out.
Thanks for the reminder genius
Hope it get to g30. Think about that. Hope this company stock goes to 500 a share. Think bout that.
National contract about to hit the roof
Nobody cares anymore
Yep hotdogs?? They are not beholding today anyone but it’s shareholders get over they it they dint care about its employees. Also safety is liability driven not safety driven