- P. Just signed Jim Vena up for 2 more years!
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I want to see Vena in his Hong Kong movies!
You act as if the UP never had layoffs. They’ve had them throughout their history. You say they survived all the hardships in the past. They’re still here surviving now so your point is pointless. And one more thing. You didn’t mention that years ago UP bankrupted and went into receivership and was sold to a group of investors. Why didn’t you mention that?
I believe he has done enough damage to UP. I remember the good old days of not being able to keep up with demand. By eliminating customers with this grad plan, that problem was fixed. And boy did it fix it. Odd how this RR survived through the years of Depression, Recession, and Car Load Volumes being low, but always maintained its integrity to its workers. It adapted to the situation, looked forward for the answers. Now? I am scared it is just a pawn for money hungry people that can get in, gut it, take the money, get out. Who is going to be left to rebuild the once solid foundation that supported it is gone? This was not a bi-product of Covid 19. UP has weathered too many storms before this. They just gave our business away to the trucking industry in the name of a grad plan to stream line for promised profit. We really could use that business now to maintain the fleet. This plug and play mentally with stored locomotives is working great right now. How long is this sustainable with 20 years of knowledge from employees gone? With no training set up. Nothing. No back up plan being presented. Rome was not built in a day. This railroad wasn’t either. All that takes time. That time was just shown the door with a packet in hand, slap on the back, and hollow words of “Good Luck!”
I will continue to destroy UP and
eliminate your job!
Liberals will pay!!
The only contract he signed was to do B movies in Hong Kong.
I think wry missed the part where there can be no compete ramifications if negotiations stall at the eleventh hour and the contract expires. More importantly, if they don’t know they have him for an additional two years, they don’t know if they have to begin the process of finding a new COO. Things aren’t always as simple as they seem.
No its probably not better, but it's at least a step in the right direction.
Any proof of this? I think the OP missed the part where his contract is an at-will contract. The meaning of that is that his employment CAN be terminated at any time. Vena's current contract is good until January 7th. Most at-will employment contracts are reviewed on a quarterly basis. I simply don't believe his contract was renewed 8 months before his current contract expires.
Who f—ing cares! Do you think it will get better without him?