Re: Is UP going into another meltdown again?
Author: s
Date: 03-31-2017 - 14:29
sledgehammer Wrote:
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> AND....allow me to address the elephant in the
> room of the future. Not only is there an ugly
> situation with work ethics in hiring today's kids
> (what do you mean I have to work at 3am?)...and
> getting them to pass a damn drug test...but you
> know, now that we're decades into The Staggers
> Act, and the Class Ones have had free ride to dump
> the lines they're no longer interested....does
> anybody wonder and think about retirement? Folks,
> your RRB benefits are in direct reflection to your
> average income. And SINCE everybody can't work
> for Class Ones...the poor schmucks that settle for
> working for the POS shortlines, they'll still get
> haunted with less money eventually in their
> retirement!!! So, if you can't work for a Class
> One, why the hell would you want to work for a
> railroad period???
Maybe because Dad owns the railroad and treats and pays us well and the morning that he doesn't wake up the employees inherit it all!
s s