Thread regarding BNSF Railway layoffs

Just wait Monday is right around the corner, what’s coming is going to be even worse

At the end of every quarter so far in 2024 ever since The Wicked Witch of Fort Worthless lost the UPS contract to UP she’s made sure her & the investors lifestyle isn’t going to change.

31 in Topeka, 25 electrician’s and 6 carmen, corporate greed at its finest

Just OP checking in, June it is. BNSF hit squad rides again, be sure to post your numbers and see what the math adds up to. Right after a presidential debate that had a terrible showing for Biden, shows who this company was backing, and when they realize he’s going to lose in November now, BNSF starts cutting. Go figure, prayers to all you guys that get hit today, I wish I had been wrong.

I think the OP was from alliance, but it is a little weird that it seems that posts on here are disappearing, seems BNSF got their meet hooks into someone at the layoff.com

I don’t think it’s me but it could be, it just might be the next best thing, but not quite me, will the real op please stand up

Busted, it's you

Kwri sounds like a bi--h a-s supervisor trolling…seems to me like sups on here trying so hard to wear out their knee pads…try harder desk jockie

@jyhz below sound alot like the clown who started this 1600 layoff wildfire post.

Word is that they are looking at July, same time they cut last year, but who knows at this point, company is looking hard to cut deep, when is the question, the OP fu---d them and their schedule up, and word is the layoff.com never made a power call or had talking points being put out to all employees, while also having foreman and techies for the company trying to bury their original time line and post. When they do decide to cut now it will be a we tried to do everything we could but still do exactly what we originally planned on doing, only they will have to eat the vacation for next year and raises at this point. As for the guys in Tulsa, feel bad for the ones in the craft that are not the top 4 on the roster, they are inevitably going to get the Houston treatment, their retirements and stuff are gone. Apprentices are easy cuts, while boilermakers and pipe fitters, those are cuts the company has been trying to make for the last decade, followed closely by Carmen based on the detectors/machine vision the railroad has become heavily invested in. After all that it’s easy to see Topeka, Galesburg, Memphis, Temple, Alliance, Belen, Barstow, Corwith, Etc….all taking a substantial hit…best guess 10-20% system wide, to include TY&E who hasn’t been touched yet and another round for MTs, foremen, and various managers….when you take all that into account 1600 doesn’t seem that far fetched of a number

No new news or what? Come out with a bombshell like this and the company is silent besides damage control. I know it’s inevitable that there will be layoffs but 1600? That seems crazy to me

Pretty sure BNSF only owns about 78,000 rail cars total, so losing 150,000 coal cars alone would be a neat trick, but I’m sure Maury could determine that’s a lie, but seems like a lie a foreman might tell someone, nothing like a blatant lie to make you a FLS, first line su-kass

They’d have to find 150,000 coal cars first before they lost them

Just heard that BNSF is losing 150000 coal cars, there was an emergency meeting on it and other things.

Word is the upper management is still trying to figure out how to furlough while not having egg on their faces. With dash 9s going into layup status, and the fleet downsizing for the summer months, and the new C4 T4 clean emissions standards, without waivers in California for emissions, furloughs are inevitable to make up costs where the company just invested heavily in B.I.g intermodal facility within the confines of a state with one of the highest corporate tax burdens in the country. Apprentices will be cut heavily this go around, followed by outlier shops, MTs, any FLS left still on a PIP, and then the real nut cutting within mechanical shops with low productivity based on a flawed MEMs program, and those with reported injuries. Whatever boilermakers and pipe fitters are left will most certainly be a targeted along with Carmen based on the companies new found love of wayside detectors and machine vision. It’s not hard to see where a number like 1600 would be easily attainable if a person really took a hard look at how the companies been operating, while pushing laborers to take over service racks to prevent or alleviate loco defects from being reported system wide

Into the sea!!!!! Adam said there is no ark in railroading..its in aviation who do you think I was the king of the railroad...because you knew too much...partner it was easy as cake ...sorry for your losses

BOHICA

Katie touched me in my no no place. Now I'm her favorite. She said I'm very special.

Then she called me the N-word a couple of times...Sh*t got weird; But in a good way.

There were mid-ets involved.

Anyone ever wonder why Soto has such a funny walk, I think Katie got him in a closed room and banged him in his deep a-s with her orange blossom special, showed him how to become railroader of the year

Please furlough us…we just want to collect RRB unemployment already

I just want to see some more bullet talking points by a company mouthpiece thats says hey peasants sorry we leaked the truth once, we are d-mbasses, but we are still furloughing you out of company interests because we su-ked at running a billion dollar company for the last 10 years or so, full transparency, except when we aren’t being transparent. You know like, ha no biggie just come to us next time because you know how much we have lied to you in the past, well just act like we are telling you the truth even though we are not, workers really aren’t that important anyway, its us failed leaders that really give this company what it needs anyway, like furloughs, like who doesn’t enjoy a good furlough. As always yours truly K T Farmer, please stop in for family appreciation day, you know if we actually are still doing that, not that we care, but its good optics ya know, cant miss out on a good photo op to pretend like we care. We will put it out in a non furloughed employee memo, just to keep it official

Pretty much clear now that corporate BNSF in Fort Worth, CMOs and specific company officers such as Solomons, Demond Dortch Bruno Soto, Darnell, Bobby Burnau, Dave Moreno, Edmundo Rodriguez and a few others colluded with each other to sabotage BNSF as a company in order to manipulate numbers and purposefully shrink BNSF as a company with the intention to increase their own annual bonuses. They did so by purposefully reducing freight, implementing failed programs throughout their departments, and micromanaging employees through artificially created camera operations testing quotas in order to purposefully deter workers from completing tasks, which is why they intentionally roll camera footage back to punish workers for things that have already happened well in the past not as a deterrent for safety purposes but as a defense of their failed leadership in the event they continue to fail at their jobs, because injuries have gone up and morale has declined since their appointments, and based on their own statistics freight has dropped as well as the company’s profits. They manipulate gray areas of policy to do so after the fact, highlighting that nothing they do is for safety as they say. According to their own statistics and programs they implemented, injuries have began to rise to levels not seen in over a decade. Every-time any company has ever allowed individuals like these to run things and implement stupid and ideological insignificant programs for self gratification and enrichment in attempt to create an artificial dip in profits to justify furloughing workers and boosting annual bonuses, the company itself was either forced into bankruptcy in order realign its business model or sold to recoup the cost of such failures brought on for the sole purpose of self enrichment at the expense of the company as a whole. Pretty much seems like Katie Farmer cosigned off on the plan along with the realignment of craft jobs throughout the system to be taken over by laborers who had no training or willingness to take on the responsibilities of safely inspecting or maintaining locomotives, again to create an artificial dip, or to purposely create an environment ripe for mechanical failure or accidents to occur similar to that of East Palestine, while creating a perfect storm for scapegoating laborers in the event such an accident does occur. This is all done while lying to union leadership, the FRA, and the NTSB. Seems that BNSF is heading for a rough long patch ahead, and furloughs are inevitable by design, how many 1600-1599, when (june july august), or where doesn’t matter at this point because corporate has already set the stage for it to happen, now its just a messaging game and hoping that another officer doesn’t get pi---d or vindictive, and leak more of the corporate secrets because they see their own job coming to end based on the previously mentioned master plan. It is different to see so many shops starting to recognize the liars and leadership failures, and speaking up and out about such, so keep the information coming, because shops everywhere need to see how the company rats are sc--wing them over purposefully, knowledge is power and communication is key, let the mess the created snowball on them, we all know they earned it

Give him a chance Bobby is really a nice guy

Barstow knows all about "Back-Stabbing-Bobby". That bi--h-made mo---------r HAS to keep his door closed. ZERO leadership skills.
We know you're probably reading this, Bobby.
Go fu-k yourself, you spineless bi--h. Stay hiding.

Heard today temple GF Bobby was in talks with corporate about cutting staffing in Temple mech in half and only managing intermediate fleet in Temple, while getting rid of wabtec in temple all together, send all high horsepower north. I even hear he had put his famous “Im unavailable to everyone but my boss” sign on his door. To come from here as an electrician and to Temple, and then tell management Temple doesn’t need a safety feed after an electrician got hurt there, that they should be happy with Vienna sausages on white bread, he’s really drank that corporate look aid if there’s any truth to half of it

This place wouldn't be so bad if they'd let you drink on the job.

And so it begins

Ask Shafer he leaks like a bad tire. Well……. maybe not nobody trusts him in management anymore after he took off before the last layoffs. What a guy!

“WHAT A PLACE!”

Oh boy! They are really doing damage control if they are investigating IP addresses! The fact that they are hunting OP down says alot. BNSF corporate kool-aid culture is the reason for this leak. They encourage competition and backstabbing in the exempt ranks. Then they promote some dud manager or pretty boy from another location or department. All this does is sew hate and discontent among the ranks. Chickens come home to roost!

BNSF, I never wanted to be a weekend lover, I only wanted to be some kind of friend, baby you know I could never steal you from another, it’s such a shame our friendship had to end…signed Grubbs

We got told OPs ip was from alliance tx or Tulsa, been told a lot, seems like the company is fishing 😂, save that man or woman at all cost, keep the info coming, my bet is alliance texas bc that Fort Worth corporate, but who know also heard barstow in the mix

I wonder if that’s how all these laborers ended up on service racks, the brass told Travis behind closed doors sign these contracts because shop cleanup doesn’t count as production, and if you start signing off on all the servicing inspection items laborers keep their job, light is starting to come on

They're telling us that the OP's IP address was from Alliance, so it can't be true. BNSF is the most mis-managaged, evil company, in the the country. We all know it.

I guess that would make sense how they got all the road trucks in the red river division last cut, travel, lunch, breaks and responding don’t count

Found out this past week myshop has been fudging and manipulating numbers based on productive and non productive work. Was specifically designed to log utilization of lunch, breaks, union business as non productivity even though it’s union mandated in contracts. Responding, travel, locomotive movement (even that covered under RISA) or defects initiated but that go unrepaired on a shift are considered unproductive work. Leadman, training, vacation time during your normal shift but are not at work, call out sick (F1 SK EN LA codes), or utilization of FMLA, locomotive movement within mechanical limits or any work not directly associated with an active repair on a locomotive is also logged as unproductive work if you are scheduled to be at work on a specific day and is directly utilized in conjunction with workforce hub, your foreman have been given direct instructions not to tell you these things and been told to actually tell you things contrary to this so that you continue to utilize these in MYSHOP, but any sup with MAM BIPOWER access can see exactly the correlation between paid time, what you worked on or did not work on, and your productivity for every single day for every employee system wide, and how the system calculated it with graph based data, separated by shifts, crafts, and work performed. My shop programs managers have also created a standard that has time associated with each repair like a mechanics hours of service repair manual, any time after that preset time has been reached, it is internally logged as non productive work even though it does not show as such on the craft side in shops, no matter how much time is logged against a unit. Shops with reported injuries or with highest levels of unproductive work will be hit hardest during furloughs

It’s amazing watching corporate and the foreman’s play circle the wagon as their world is starting to burn, I must say it’s most entertaining to see how they are trying to come up with some semblance of a game plan as they now all look like deer in the headlights waiting for the next shoe to drop, like how dare our workers talk to each other and realize what we’re planning on doing to them, how could they possibly hold us in our ivory corporate towers accountable, this is amazing

Doesn’t really matter what BNSF puts out at this point, anything relatively close to the numbers that were put out in the original post whether in total or some weird nonsensical cr-p like we will offer moving incentives for temporary jobs in terrible places etc or some combination thereof and I’m going to say BNSF got caught slipping or pi---d off the wrong company officer who put out their master plan, either way, it’s nice to see them trying to do the political gymnastics they’ve been making every else do since the PEB

All I know is at commerce there is a guy that drives a v6 mustang and blares purple rain and does burnouts allegedly, he does not care who gets laid off, he even said lay everyone off as long as he can smoke his cigarettes and kiss managements a-s behind everyone’s back

Feeling cute, might apply for a MOW job later just to be laid off next year when all those newly created jobs that were created for the early march furlough goes away January 1, when the infrastructure expenditure money is reallocated for corporate bonuses based on how much they didn’t spend 😂