Thread regarding Union Pacific Corp. layoffs

Having a degree in no way shape or from equals intelligence. Railroading is critical thinking and problem solving. The best managers I ever worked for came up through the craft and the worst ones were id--ts with degrees who thought they could build a better mousetrap but in reality could complicate a thumbtack.

Its not about college degrees, college for this class of people is just a designated time to goof off. Amorality and corruption have turned running businesses far from what “we who really work” think it is. Manipulating info to stoke up stock prices w/o actually performing a better service or offering a better product, following demands from hedge fund leaders, pouring money into politics, this is some of what running a corporation is today. No country should’ve ever let someone serve on both a board and be in management, one cannot serve two masters. No country should ever allow a business to accrue debt and also allow a board to buy back stocks, its a license to print money. Look at the timing, UP bought back stocks THEN they offered an employee stock buying program. Why didnt they include UP employees to buy stock when it was low then buy the stock back from employees so the employees too couldve been guaranteed profits w/o performing any real work? Frederick Bastiat called it plunder.

I agree with some of this, but other parts are a stretch to say the least. I have over 35 years seniority and I don’t ever remember train trips averaging 6-7 hours. When I started, 12 hours was the norm and if you did get an easy trip, you would be called back to work 8 hours later. Running trains wasn’t easy then, and isn’t easy now.