Machinists, Electricians, Carmen and now soon to be conductors. Earning are at highs and you still choose to displace hard proud workers. Your k--ling your workplace morale even further. I hope you never return to your once prominent position as the best class 1 railroad! Everything comes back to those do ill will!!!
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I like Proviso the people are nice and friendly.
I laughed at the lead paint joke
No, the managers that had no clue how to run the yard over the years have done this. Train crews just did what they were told, no matter how stupid the plan was. Only a few out of how many hundreds have moved up to made up non essential positions.
So I feel bad for the good people that get laid off, but lots not act like most of the trainmen in proviso aren't worthless.
a lot of you screwed the dog over and over. Congratulations a lot of those managers you screwed over the last 15years are now running the company.
Send the work to where people want to work, and not where people want to get paid for doing nothing.
Newsflash
They don’t care!
Wow, someone must have put catsup on Private Meatdagger's hotdog. Pretty sure his comment and the comments which "built on his" fall under the "triggered" category people like him use to describe the youngsters. It is truly amazing that railroaders are so easily brainwashed into thinking that they are the best workers the railroad has ever seen. The baby boomers are the generation which phucked up this country with their laziness and entitlement. Go back to your deep dish pizza and have another heart attack.
I was told by a director in proviso back in 2006 that we were going to safety our jobs away. It’s common knowledge on the up that the only people that get in trouble are the people out working. If you hide all day you will be just fine. Managers do t know their people enough to o ow who works and who don’t
Just to build on Captain Meatsword's previous comment. Proviso's trainmen have always performed above and beyond and adapted to multiple leadership changes. Then everything went to hell over the last few years when the leadership started taking away the incentives for people to go the extra mile. Taking away the meal period , which we later had to have rolled into our basic day, taking away our quits, and most recently performing the tasks of a utility man while assigned to an RCO job which is a flagrant violation of UP's own rulebook.
There's a massive disconnect between the suits in Omaha and those of us with boots on the ground here in Chicago. Unfortunately just like CN and CSX before the UP will have to learn the hard way that Precision Schedule Railroading only results in a short term gain, and eventually leads to a lot of begging and pleading both to your furloughed employees to come back to work and to the Customers you've angered trying to line your pockets with quick cash.
Just to build on Captain Meatsword's previous comment. Proviso's trainmen have always performed above and beyond and adapted to multiple leadership changes. Then everything went to hell over the last few years when the leadership started taking away the incentives for people to go the extra mile. Taking away the meal period , which we later had to have rolled into our basic day, taking away our quits, and most recently performing the tasks of a utility man while assigned to an RCO job which is a flagrant violation of UP's own rulebook.
There's a massive disconnect between the suits in Omaha and those of us with boots on the ground here in Chicago. Unfortunately just like CN and CSX before the UP will have to learn the hard way that Precision Schedule Railroading only results in a short term gain, and eventually leads to a lot of begging and pleading both to your furloughed employees to come back to work and to the Customers you've angered trying to line your pockets with quick cash.
They could have 700 f---ing cars a shift over that hump EASILY had they f---ing not had 567,8654,678,102 F---ING rules just to cross a f---ing track! Hire absolute f---ing brownie burglars with ZERO work ethic.. but it's all about looking good on paper.. proviso wasn't there for 100 f---ing years on accident, the railroad that ran it prior had no problems, it's the corporation that owns a railroad that can't figure out, even worse knows what's going on and doesn't fix the problem. Now this sh-- with being laxed on rules you f---ing kidding me? I set out bad order on OS train other f---ing day in zero time flat SAFELY EFFICIENTLY AND SHOULDA MADE OS REALLY EEEEEARLY UNTIL SOME Sh-- FACE NEW MANAGER who's watching me like I have a football helmet on comes up to me stops the move right before I'm about to put the train back together and says oh you didn't wait the full minute for securement I said yes sir I did he says no actually it was 57 seconds and I swear to the almighty he said 57 seconds and went on to say that he's giving me what he called a shave and I said sir this is a joke right I mean you're kidding you stop this whole move and we're blowing this OS because of 3 seconds that could easily just be your watch and as a matter of fact you don't have to do a single-car securement on a remote I'm a bad order that wasn't and has nothing to do with a bad brake you just have to do a drag test and then he got all militant I could tell it was his first job out of college he had no idea what I was f---ing talking about so the train was 40 f---ing minutes late cuz this a-- clown did what he did, this is the norm this has always been the norm since 2004 with Union Pacific( In Chicago) they have done everything they can to sabotage train operations from hiring the worst of the worst people to run things instead of recruiting from those who know how to run things.
Proviso yard and Chicago in general has the best railroaders on planet earth, flat switch, build any length train in mind blowing time, qualified passenger conductors dealing with public one day, moving freight the next in the hottest, coldest temps anywhere. Anyways Omaha is completely oblivious to the CONSTANT sabotage occurring to purposely limit freight movements, you have people who have NO business stepping onto railroad property let alone flipping burgers making critical decisions regarding everything from hiring, power needs, rule enforcement, train makeup and scheduling, I've been there since 2004 and my hand to the almighty it's like railroad candid camera I'm hoping somebody just comes from behind an engine or shed and says "GOTCHA".. EVERYTIME big wigs come into town their lied to, about..... everything and shown only what was cleaned up hours earlier. 15 minute speech to back a train up 50 yards to a joint otherwise 15 college aged kids jump on you, hiring folks who don't belong driving uber cars and murdering people using fmla everyday lazier than a homer Simpson Teamster are only excepted, on and on and on... the hardest workers drilled upon until they can't take it anymore, the laziest pieces of sh-- rewarded and untouched even given shout outs on breathing in and out while f---ing the railroad in the ground...I dunno... who f---ing cares anymore. The BN will eventually be the king's of Chicago because they railroad they give a f--- about employee clubs or giving presidential speeches for simple train movements, hire people with real resumes and didn't eat lead paint as kids...
I'm sure they care.
They are setting proviso up to fail. It was never designed to flat switch in.