@3yvr: I definitely agree. Unfortunately, I have seen the types of people UP hires for critical management positions up close, as well as their so-called training program that is supposed to substitute for years of experience, handing major responsibility (literally life & death) to kids fresh out of school who in many cases don't even have relevant degrees, let alone experience. The result is a corps of managers that is made up of burnt-out college grads at the lower levels, and sociopaths of a low-cunning at the upper levels. It's a truly pitiful state of affairs, and it will never change as long as LF is there.
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That’s why you’re here reading and writing. Because you don’t miss it and and weren’t thinking about it.
There's no might about it. Have you actually seen the kind of managers the UP has? Still the question is asked why the UP has so many management levels. The managers I worked with were writing people up for the same rules they were breaking regularly. If any of the remaining managers actually had experience, then I'm sure the tune would be different. No instead the UP has to hire college railroaders, to do mundane things that have NO value, piss off the actual railroaders, obliterate company moral, and then somehow congratulate them for doing absolutely nothing. I'm really relieved im not there anymore. This wasn't the same railroad I was hired onto. I dont miss it at all.
UP might have the most dysfunctional, bureaucratic, and bloated management culture in the entire F500. Three (sometimes more) people have overlapping management duties at a single level of the management chain. This amount of redundancy adds very little value for the cost. Take the senior manager, superintendent, and director positions then consolidate them into a single job function. Give the field managers more discretion and decision making power, and get rid of the AVP position altogether.
It won't fix everything, but it's a start.
Yes lots of nosy, bitter managers on here. That’s half the fun though; seeing their pathetic spin on things when everyone knows the way things really are.
Managers post on this site more than anyone else they should spend more time cleaning up the mess they’ve created douchbags
Then why are the agreement employees the ones always whining and crying?
Manager's are like little puppies with their tail between their legs, panting to the master of UP.
Rula ends July 31. August, management cuts begin. Its only obvious.
Yea I guess it’s pretty dangerous walking on a well lit clean floor for a few feet between cubicles and offices.
The best part of the courage to care videos was them comparing close calls in the field to some dude walking and talking with his cell phone in the glass palace.
Courage to care about laying off dedicated workers.
@1psp. But nowhere to go.
I sure miss the days of the courage to care propaganda. I knew they didn’t really care but they sure acted like they did. Hopefully everyone will realize this place is just a flavor of the day kinda company.
There isn’t a field manager working for this company today that likes his job. Everyone looking to leave.
Are they giving back the wage reductions that multiple crafts took to help the company? Probably not
Omaha really just got tired of all these managers crybabies complaining about off 1 week a month no pay... so they cancelled RULA! Should have given them 2 weeks a month no pay! Not worth having them around
We don’t need managers sitting in offices and sleeping they are useless to the operation!!
I would love a week off every month
Many of you can’t.
How would we function without all the managers posting on here? Lmao
That’s been my experience exactly.
Some of you can’t function without them....so you are correct! Others are good employees, have pride in their work, and don’t need direct supervision. It’s usually the people saying they don’t need managers that really need them the most.
Thank goodness! I was wondering what/how we were going to function without them
It's weird that RULA would be suddenly cancelled. If anything there is less need for managers, not more.
I always thought that RULA was upper management indirectly telling lower management to go and look for another job. That seems to be exactly what a lot of junior managers did. In the past month alone I've gotten three calls for references, and OMTs are burning up LinkedIn like nothing else. I guess a lot of them are coming up on the end of their one year relocation contracts.