I've only been doing the bare minimum for some time now. I changed the approach to my job here and surprisingly I am not any less valued than when I was working myself to exhaustion.
Are there still those who think that their work will be valued and who still make enormous efforts? Did the hard work actually pay off for anyone here?
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I actually do my job and I don't do it for them, but I do it for the customer. I find it personally fulfilling servicing a customer and defying all the odds of them getting their order. When I place that car inside their gates and leave the facility, knowing I delivered a car that survived one heck of a journey. It survived g-n fights in south Chicago, extreme cold snaps in the north east, hurricane force winds and torrential rain fall. It survived sitting in the middle of nowhere for 7 days unattended 22mph ties in a bowl track due to switching with no safety devices to slow it down. All of this and that car survived I place it at the customer leaving there know I was the solution. I go out to lock up the main line switch and there I can feel my stomach sink as I see the very spot where the last drop of grain had leaked out of the car right before I placed it. All that work for nothing and now I am depressed.
You JUST learned that bare minimum is the standard? I used to put in delays, inspect every train and give a good by on the radio and the works. Now I don't care, NS has made me not care. The only thing I don't do is sleep on moving trains, or even stopped ones. That is my professional standard I go out of my way to maintain. Engineers talk about the conductors who sleep all the time.
If you do anything more than the bare minimum after all they've done to show us we aren't valued, you are a tool.
I'm starting to slow down. Its obvious they don't care how good a job I do. I'm often told to run cars that I know without a doubt are illegal. If it actually makes it to the shop it won't be fixed. I used to take pride in doing my best but now I'm actively discouraged from doing my job properly. Hard to take any pride in the half rear ended way they want you to work. Why should I care more about their property than they do? They will let you work until you drop and then blame the injury on you. And while you're out with the effects of said injury, they'll force someone to work overtime to cover you so all your hard work resulted in someone else getting screwed.
Everyone else is doing the bare minimum also. The CEO, the legal teams, the cafeteria workers in the Atlanta corporate offices…everybody is doing the bare minimum. Anything more makes you an overachiever and subject to discipline.
$h!t bags like you is why the company outsources all the work.
While not thinking about being of Value. It is just a matter of Pride. I understand the sentiment though!!! Feel free to throw things i.e. shade, hate ,whatever my way!!!!