Wow temple lost another foreman. One retired and one went to different department to escape the bull cr-p management madness.
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UP NS merger won’t have to try very hard to establish an expansion claim when your “competition” is taking steps to put itself into bankruptcy. Markets know that most major companies who enter into bankruptcy to sale or liquidate, result in huge market value increases for those who hold stock in such companies. This is where corporate officers who hold shares, with profit sharing stand to make a fortune at the expense of sabotaging a company. Basic corporate insider trading 101.
BNSF has cut until there really isn’t much left to cut, they are now cutting people that now have the financial means or backing that is resulting in a tremendous amount of legal pressure including targeting disabled vets for FMLA and VA appointment attendance, females of whom they already were severely lacking in the crafts, and the targeting of people of color….creating a perfect storm for a legal jack kn--e in Human Resources, as a court already stated a month ago as a warning to BNSF to stop trying to utilize the courts to violate workers rights and union agreements. It’s creating a powder keg in the department of labor and the department of health and human services, as law firms are starting to see the cracks, and are taking cases on pro bono , as it only takes a huge millions of dollar case to create a rainman situation in the rail industry, forcing a private railroad into bankruptcy to set a precedent. UP knows this as a public company, so inching BNSF off that financial cliff with false metrics, while leaving no margin for error or expansion, ultimately is going to result in the inevitable. Courts should step in along with the NTSB to prevent BNSF from taking preliminary steps to filing bankruptcy and creating a windfall for corporate, and stiffing debt holders, but I highly doubt anyone is thinking that far ahead.
Every morning I open LinkedIn and another experienced exempt is quitting BNSF to be replaced by some d-mb-d-mb off the street.
@rp I’ve always had a theory about this. Berkshire Hathaway probably should have bought Union Pacific, especially since both companies were based in Omaha. My guess is that Berkshire looked at UP at the time and decided the economics weren’t attractive enough.
Then Berkshire bought BNSF instead.
A few years later, Union Pacific essentially said, “Hold my beer,Watch this. ” 😂
Take it easy, guys. The top brass will just ask U.P. what they would do in this situation. Then, once U.P. tells our CEO some made up BS that will actually damage our company, our higher-ups will fall for it again and implement those policies. They literally fell for the "we fired all our mechanical" idiocy. "Maintenance? What's that? At U.P. we run on hopes and dreams."
BNSF is the only company that is actually managed by a rival company. Pathetic.
@e4 Retired because he finally got smart, and realized TPL isnt worth the BS.
They can cut about 50% of management completely worthless!
That's fine. He can go flim-flam trains and fuel for the mail line boys. We Have Cordelius Donker. He's the only roundhouse Foreman we could ever need. And he isn't going anywhere.
In the event that there are vacancies that needed covered for sick days or vacations, I'm sure that Kohl will cut in. Do doubt there.
Temple will keep kicking like it always does.
I don’t think they can cut anymore in mechanical anymore, too many mainline failures. They can cut in HR since they don’t do anything except for shutting the door and kissing tooshy and talk about the many vacations they go on. I see them gossip more than work.