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Working on the railroad -- some stories from other sites
Author: WebDigger
Date: 12-19-2019 - 15:14
Not sure how true any of these are.
Company Attempts To Intimidate Their Employees Into Not Using Their Days Off During The Holidays, They Shame Them Online -- "In a series of posts, the [Imgur user iHateGames] explained how one railway company, BNSF, does all that it can to make sure that the conductors it employs don’t take days off (or use their ‘layoff’ in railroad terms) when they want to but instead are available to work during the holidays." [www.boredpanda.com]
The items below are from the "MaliciousCompliance" subreddit, searched for "railroad" (without quotes) -- [old.reddit.com]
The Old Man and the Locomotive -- tldr: Ya gotta know where ta hit it. [old.reddit.com]
More railroad compliance -- tldr: Blocking Crossings. Contains this snarky comment: "We railroaders have super intelligent and knowledgeable bosses who are well informed and always make excellent decisions, obviously. So when we let them know that something has happened, like a stop signal, which may delay us and cause us to exceed an 8 hour shift and begin earning overtime, they sometimes decide that we are just trying to get relieved early so we can go home and watch Charlie Brown and the Great Pumpkin. So we get instructed to continue working." [old.reddit.com]
For other Malicious Compliance stories of a general nature, go to [old.reddit.com]. Here's the story that got me to go there: Students Get 250 Pages To Print For Free, But Can’t Redeem Them As Blank Paper, So 2 Guys Printed Blanks -- [www.boredpanda.com]
Company Attempts To Intimidate Their Employees Into Not Using Their Days Off During The Holidays, They Shame Them Online -- "In a series of posts, the [Imgur user iHateGames] explained how one railway company, BNSF, does all that it can to make sure that the conductors it employs don’t take days off (or use their ‘layoff’ in railroad terms) when they want to but instead are available to work during the holidays." [www.boredpanda.com]
The items below are from the "MaliciousCompliance" subreddit, searched for "railroad" (without quotes) -- [old.reddit.com]
The Old Man and the Locomotive -- tldr: Ya gotta know where ta hit it. [old.reddit.com]
More railroad compliance -- tldr: Blocking Crossings. Contains this snarky comment: "We railroaders have super intelligent and knowledgeable bosses who are well informed and always make excellent decisions, obviously. So when we let them know that something has happened, like a stop signal, which may delay us and cause us to exceed an 8 hour shift and begin earning overtime, they sometimes decide that we are just trying to get relieved early so we can go home and watch Charlie Brown and the Great Pumpkin. So we get instructed to continue working." [old.reddit.com]
For other Malicious Compliance stories of a general nature, go to [old.reddit.com]. Here's the story that got me to go there: Students Get 250 Pages To Print For Free, But Can’t Redeem Them As Blank Paper, So 2 Guys Printed Blanks -- [www.boredpanda.com]
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 Working on the railroad -- some stories from other sites |
WebDigger | 12-19-2019 - 15:14 |