Re: UP Ranks #1 Worst Company to Work For
Author: OPRRMS
Date: 10-03-2019 - 19:47
G. Poindexter Wrote:
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> doso realidad Wrote:
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> > ok, yes - that's what happened in the 80's.
> But
> > geez, time to let it go now, you think anyone
> who
> > was setting policy in 1982 is still around? I
> > suppose there might be a few MoPac fresh out of
> > college types from that era still on the
> property,
> > but they certainly weren't the ones who were
> > running the show during the merger era by a
> long
> > shot. By and large the MoPac gang has been gone
> > for a long time.
>
> Do a little research. They were in charge of
> just
> about everything well into the 2000s; you must
> have
> forgotten that in the mid-'80s most of these guys
> were only in their late 20s-early 30s and had
> already
> reached mid-level management by then.
>
> Who the hell do you think was making the big
> decisions in '95 (CNW merger) and '96-'99 (SP
> merger and meltdowns)?
>
> Hint: Only 1 VP was not exMopac. Even the CEO
> was exMP.
>
> And I did say they were mostly gone by the 2010s.
Yup. And their policies and ideologies were passed on to their replacements, many of whom came from outside of the railroad industry.