I just saw the video of Venas threat to shippers who oppose the merger and I'm stunned! I saw another article where he said "humor is good", except I didn't hear anyone laughing or clapping about it! He wasn't even smiling about it which really suggests he was serious about that threat. He messed up the railroad pretty badly during his first stint at the UP. Then he comes back to mess it up even more by hacking more jobs, make phony promises about "jobs for life", and then threatens shippers with rate increases! What does this guy have to do to get fired???
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How about if you support the merger, we will reduce your rate 3-4 percent. This is the language that needs displayed. The savings in the merger can handle those costs for a while.
@fn he IS untouchable, just like all the Canadian management on every class 1 railroad they are all "Captain Obvious" characters from a bad cartoon
Vena was 100% serious. He needs to bring back his former communications officer Beyah to keep him in line on what he conveys publicly. The new leader just let him say whatever now. He has made us all look bad now. I think this seriously may halt the merger .
He was completely serious. Leading up to that remark, his tone toward the audience was purely condescending. If he followed any part of the UP ethics code in that moment, it was solely that he was brutally honest.
@hp -And profit.
Yep love how the company preaches about the ethics and honesty unless it’s leadership and management.
@ey Exactly! Anyone else at the company that said what he said to the customers would been erased from the company including any memories! Vena really thinks he's untouchable at the UP! I sincerely hope the Board of Directors gives him a dirty boot right in the a$$!
Vena said the quiet part out loud …UP employees already know how rotten to the core this man is and the customers heard in his own words how he feels about them . This has zero to do with customer service. It has everything to do with dividends, hedge funds and Jim’s pathetic ego . Let this takeover move forward and watch the infrastructure crumble.
@OP so much for the up way I’d imagine if one of us said this we’d have been fired nice ethics
@bt The only surprising part is I figured he would've just stuck with threatening employees, not the customers. Vena was not to be trusted from the very beginning and almost everybody knew that. I just never figured Vena would've gone this far to get what he wants. Having Vena as your last name is bad enough already and this little stunt didn't help his image or the merger process at all. Little Jimmy just showed the industry his true colors and I'd be VERY surprised if he's still with the company in six months.
@aw There's a difference between being bad and being spineless. The employees is what makes the company run, not the shareholders! You chose shareholders over the employees. Then Vena came along, many lost their jobs. made the company much worse than it ever was, Vena disappeared, and you lost your job because you couldn't stand up for the company instead of pleasing the shareholders. So, yeah you were bad. When you had the chance to make choices, you picked all of the choices that hurt the company the most.
Precision railroading I hope Hunter Harrison burns in he-l.At least he is dead.
This is how employees have been treated throughout this whole PSR scam and it still surprises people.
I kind off like him .You dont like it go somewhere else .Union pacific is the new monopoly.
Fish rottens from the head... It's the UPway !
And you all thought I was bad.
I hope the UP stock TANKS
The Board has to fire him now. He made retaliatory threats against against customers. He just painted a giant target on UP