so what is exactly is this clean sheet bs ?
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You know those stupid time studies they have been doing? Well, take how long it took to do that particular job, find out how many times a shift/ day/ week that job is done, and tally the man minutes to do the task.
They will add all the time studies together to determine actual recorded man minutes to do all the tasks. Then they will figure out how many times all these tasks are done, and figure out how many man hours are actually needed to complete the average tasks. They will cut to 10% below the needed workforce. The railroad actually tells their managers that they want baseline minus 1 numbers.
I was involved in the clean sheet/ time study process in mcdonough for mechanical 2 years ago.
It’s when a bunch of overpaid people who know nothing about railroading come in and tell people who know what their doing how to do it better. Oh yea and layoffs lots of layoffs.
Why do you think they were doing those cheesy "time studies" on mechanical? Because they want to lay off more. They are trying to get it so you don't have any downtime.
If you don’t know already, you sure will soon. Imagine you have a job that you think requires 6 people, once clean sheeted they will instruct you to do said job with 2 people. Once they clean sheet Atlanta they will know soon. Operations already knows.
It involves a lot of layoffs and ruined lives and marriage.