A long time ago, a corrupt member of management got into a heated disagreement with me about "shop stuff", and during the course of the argument I asked "Don't the employees matter? I mean we are people too". And that person's response was "you guys are expendable assets at best!" That right there sums up the mentality of NS management and how the view us. They're brainwashed into thinking they're superior to us. AND, that's exactly how they're handling these layoffs. Don't believe your management when they tell you "we don't know how many we are laying off"...because they know EXACTLY how many heads they want. But they don't want to say because the company is more concerned that someone slated for layoff will go "oops i fell" and pinch a little money out of the company, instead of being concerned with the fact that they are ruining peoples lives etc - they could come out and say "we need to cut X amount of people in waves over the next month or so". I mean, people who will be affected have a right to know so they can get their affairs in order. Instead, NS would rather keep people in the dark and spring it on them at the last moment, escorting them off the property by management and rent-a-cops like they're some kind of criminals. Yeah, NS is a family oriented company.
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Replying to: “Conrail was not a family oriented company. My grandfather worked and retired from Conrail/ NS. He was miserable until he retired. Working different shifts, nights, weekends, and hoildays. Our family worked around his schedule. As my family does now. It's a job stop complaining. If you dont like the company/ job find a new one.”
Sounds like you’re one of them SGL’s turned supervisor who thinks your untouchable. We'll see double d
Conrail was not a family oriented company. My grandfather worked and retired from Conrail/ NS. He was miserable until he retired. Working different shifts, nights, weekends, and hoildays. Our family worked around his schedule. As my family does now. It's a job stop complaining. If you dont like the company/ job find a new one.
"If a manager takes out of office circumstances into her hiring and firing decisions, that's a bad manager engaging in possibly illegal behavior. You lay off the person who makes the most sense for the team of which you are the leader and the company full stop. You don't handicap someone because of some outside circumstance irrelevant to the job at hand. That's grossly unfair to everyone else, and costly to the bottom line. The poor performer whose job you save today will cost someone else's job in the future."
It's a Union shop you lay off from the bottom of the seniority list, no one job or person is irreplaceable.
"you guys are expendable assets at best!"
That is the attitude of all corporate America.
Employees are expendable, Profit above all else ( including people ).
Obviously, they want to cut the workforce before people qualify for X number of weeks of vacation they are cutting the workforce to increase profit.
JLS seemed to be the last shop to layoff before vacation qualification "qualification" was most likely the deadline handed down from corporate to act on, other shops cut earlier this year, in my opinion, JLS waited as long as they could.
I don't agree with the precision railroading "PR" strategy, it's clear that "PR" is the use of government protected monopolies of rail corridors to force costumers to accept poor service at high prices.
Without the need to "compete" rail companies can use their equity on the stock market to increase profits.
But who I'm I? just the average American NOBODY compared to the God "Wall ST" and corporate America.
If a manager takes out of office circumstances into her hiring and firing decisions, that's a bad manager engaging in possibly illegal behavior. You layoff the person who makes the most sense for the team of which you are the leader, and the company full stop. You don't handicap someone because of some outside circumstance irrelevant to the job at hand. That's grossly unfair to everyone else, and costly to the bottom line. The poor performer whose job you save today will cost someone else's job in the future.
They don’t care about us or our families. I miss Conrail
I've worked in companies with a lot of nepotism. I don't want a family oriented company.