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Re: Is UP going into another meltdown again?
Author: Espee2472
Date: 03-31-2017 - 21:18
SP5103 Wrote:
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> 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
> [www.railwayage.com]-
> 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.
that's the problem, wall street,
accountants & investors & the greedy
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> David Dewey Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > 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
> [www.railwayage.com]-
> 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.
that's the problem, wall street,
accountants & investors & the greedy
