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Re: Is UP going into another meltdown again?
Author: SP5103
Date: 03-31-2017 - 11:46
David Dewey Wrote:
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> I recently had a job out of town where I got to
> talk to folks I've not met before. Being raised in
> a resort, I tend to converse with strangers a lot.
> One guy who was a supervisor in a mill told me
> that they would hire young folks, and then they
> wouldn't show up, or, in one case, would show up
> 15 minutes late every day. He explained to the
> young man that everyone needed to be at the work
> station when the shift started so the product
> could move through the mill. This guy just didn't
> get it, couldn't understand why that was
> important. At a restaurant that night, I commented
> on the "help wanted" sign. I was told it was very
> difficult to find anyone--they had just hired two
> folks, one never showed up for work, the other
> stayed one day and disappeared.
> Combine that with, apparently, drug tests, and the
> available, willing, work pool shrinks quickly.
Agreed - And don't forget our increasingly socialist system has turned everything upside down. Social assistance often pays better than any job the recipient might qualify for. I have no objection to a safety net - my family and friends have had to depend on it at various times - the problem is those who are using the safety net as a hammock and have no intention of working.
And as soon as government gets involved - everything goes to hell. Everyone gets told to go to college to be successful, then they have $100,000 in debt and expect to get the job "they deserve", but sometimes can't. And everyone looks to their politicians to save them.
Back to railroading instead of ranting - see http://www.railwayage.com/index.php/freight/class-i/rail-traffic-sees-big-boost.html?channel=50 The way the accountants and investors are running the railroads, they can't absorb the traffic swings, hence the problems.
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> I recently had a job out of town where I got to
> talk to folks I've not met before. Being raised in
> a resort, I tend to converse with strangers a lot.
> One guy who was a supervisor in a mill told me
> that they would hire young folks, and then they
> wouldn't show up, or, in one case, would show up
> 15 minutes late every day. He explained to the
> young man that everyone needed to be at the work
> station when the shift started so the product
> could move through the mill. This guy just didn't
> get it, couldn't understand why that was
> important. At a restaurant that night, I commented
> on the "help wanted" sign. I was told it was very
> difficult to find anyone--they had just hired two
> folks, one never showed up for work, the other
> stayed one day and disappeared.
> Combine that with, apparently, drug tests, and the
> available, willing, work pool shrinks quickly.
Agreed - And don't forget our increasingly socialist system has turned everything upside down. Social assistance often pays better than any job the recipient might qualify for. I have no objection to a safety net - my family and friends have had to depend on it at various times - the problem is those who are using the safety net as a hammock and have no intention of working.
And as soon as government gets involved - everything goes to hell. Everyone gets told to go to college to be successful, then they have $100,000 in debt and expect to get the job "they deserve", but sometimes can't. And everyone looks to their politicians to save them.
Back to railroading instead of ranting - see http://www.railwayage.com/index.php/freight/class-i/rail-traffic-sees-big-boost.html?channel=50 The way the accountants and investors are running the railroads, they can't absorb the traffic swings, hence the problems.
