Thread regarding Union Pacific Corp. layoffs

Bonus: Lack of Leadership and Integrity

Did anyone else receive their bonus in their bank account without a manager ever delivering your compensation letter to you or "having that conversation?"

We all knew the bonuses would be subpar. Don't quit the company yet. My guess is the company wants non-agreement employees to resign over their bonus and merit increase. This helps them determine how many people to layoff in the coming months. Make them pay you to leave.

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@2zyf-Let me correct a few of your comments.

It’s not that we’re ungrateful, we’re just tired of the problems PSR has caused us. If you don’t like them either, then you need to be on our side.

“Ungrateful” and “tired of cr-p” is not the same thing, and most of us are the latter of the two.

A lot of us don’t want to be managers because we don’t want to be corporate puppets. Besides, not everyone can be a manager, someone has to do the work. We can do your job, we just choose not to. It doesn’t mean we are less of a person than you.

If you want to bad mouth us, how about we bad mouth you in that we’re not the ones getting fake Un. of Phoenix online degrees while on duty using a company computer on company time. There are people that literally do this at my location. Any person that I see that has a degree from there in their introductory biography we assume that’s how they got it, and chances are we’re correct.

If you feel that being a manager is that difficult, they why don’t YOU quit. Why don’t YOU go work somewhere else if you think the workers here are so bad.

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Post ID: @3jzf+1qZ57GQ0

LoL wow, look boys we triggered a manager. Dude acting like he's a decorated combat vet, what a joke. Dude, you approve payroll and hours of service! And put in coachings on the system. Wow. Maybe one day I'll be a good as you...... Enjoy your bonus hahahahha

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Post ID: @2lvf+1qZ57GQ0

A lot of these comments obviously are made by ungrateful agreement employees who don’t have the ba--s to take on a managers job in the first place. You sit back and haven’t a clue on how to do this job but rather hide behind your weak union and barely do your job in the first place.

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Post ID: @2zyf+1qZ57GQ0

I didn’t get a bonus. They tell everyone to spend 10% less on their purchasing credit card in 2024, than we spent in 2023. Budgets cut big time in all areas. Ebnezer Scrooge runs the rr.

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Post ID: @1jji+1qZ57GQ0

"Managers I know get two 3 day weekends a month! They call it a Quality of Life day! They also get more vacation. I guess us measly craft employees don't deserve a quality of life day twice a month. We have to burn our vacation for that. If your company isn't doing well, don't expect huge bonuses. If you came from the craft, then step down and stop belly aching. I have zero pitty in how small the managers bonus is this year."

There is no doubt the craft employees are mistreated. We all heard and saw it during the previous contract negotiations. Truthfully, what the unions agreed to was disappointing.

As for the company "not doing well"; billions in profit is not doing well? We should all be receiving more paid time off, bonuses, and stock for making this place go. Greed at the top effects everyone, just in different ways.

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Post ID: @jap+1qZ57GQ0

"In my “managers” (non agreement) group our bonuses were a whopping 3,000.00 average. After taxes 1,500.00. So…… "
Wow! Daffy Duck would describe that as "despicable"

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Post ID: @ylq+1qZ57GQ0

I didn’t say all of them got 15-20k bonuses I said some did. I know one that got zero bonus but like I said before I have no idea what any of them got in 2023. One of the managers that got a 20k bonus was a senior manager and a couple managers told me they got 15k yes they told me I’m not gonna lie and say I saw their pay stub. So maybe they lied 🤷‍♂️ I had no idea how bad the insurance was, I knew it wasn’t good but had no idea it was costing that damn much!

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Post ID: @drd+1qZ57GQ0

In my “managers” (non agreement) group our bonuses were a whopping 3,000.00 average. After taxes 1,500.00. So……

You shouldn’t get a bonus.. So……

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Post ID: @clu+1qZ57GQ0

In my “managers” (non agreement) group our bonuses were a whopping 3,000.00 average. After taxes 1,500.00. So……

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Post ID: @wgp+1qZ57GQ0

Managers I know get two 3 day weekends a month! They call it a Quality of Life day! They also get more vacation. I guess us measly craft employees don't deserve a quality of life day twice a month. We have to burn our vacation for that. If your company isn't doing well, don't expect huge bonuses. If you came from the craft, then step down and stop belly aching. I have zero pitty in how small the managers bonus is this year.

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Post ID: @avx+1qZ57GQ0

You know most of your managers have received a $15-20k bonus? Hearsay or you've seen their compensation statement? How many managers is that? .. 1 or 2? What level are they? Many non-agreement employees are not managers and are not receiving large bonuses. As for health insurance, keep in mind two people with two major events within two years on the high-deductible health insurance plan is about $22-25k of out of pocket expenses. So yes, the health care plan our agreement professionals receive is worth a fortune and it is realistic to think someone with a $4-6k bonus would make that trade. A $4-6k bonus after taxes ends up being $2400- $3900 after taxes. "LIFE CHANGING"-I can pay a portion of one of last years medical bills. Also, no overtime pay for non-agreement even though they are doing the work of two or three people now. The agreement employees work a lot but in fairness, not all of the non-agreement people get to sit around on conference calls with holidays, nights, and weekends off.

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Post ID: @mbx+1qZ57GQ0

Our shop director was conveniently “on vacation”.

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Post ID: @yff+1qZ57GQ0

Trade their measly bonus for better health insurance? Really?!?! I know most of our managers have gotten 15-20k dollar bonuses the last couple of years, to be fair I don’t know what they got for a bonus in 2023 but to say they would trade 15-20k for a better insurance plan is not realistic!!

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Post ID: @ggy+1qZ57GQ0

Integrity don't exist here, I get rules thrown at me meanwhile see manager break multiple rules in just a matter of 30 minutes! These managers never heard of Lead By Example.

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Post ID: @ick+1qZ57GQ0

Such a typical misconception; not all non-agreement employees are "managers"

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Post ID: @qgw+1qZ57GQ0

Managers usually spend most of their days in meetings, just BS’ing each other, trying to make themselves look good, and trying to make sure their superiors like them. They usually fake laugh at d-mb jokes just so they seem likable. The union folks are the ones doing the actual work.

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Post ID: @igr+1qZ57GQ0

Non-agreement don’t deserve a bonus if company is struggling their pay for the year should be enough and at that they (managers) are over paid doing nothing

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Post ID: @qgg+1qZ57GQ0

Yes, happened to me a few years back. It's a sign that your supervisor simply does not even want to pretend to care enough to have a five minute conversation

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Post ID: @lyw+1qZ57GQ0

The bonus is in lieu of the heath insurance the agreement employees receive. Most non-agreement employees with a high-deductible health insurance plan would be willing to trade you our measly bonus for your top-notch healthcare. A collective bargaining agreement is why you don't have a severance. I'm not sure what the joke is but we all know the punchline.

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Post ID: @wau+1qZ57GQ0

The fact that non-agreement get bonus and severance, is a joke.. I’ve been here 25 yrs.. I’d get 5 days.. Instead of 25 weeks (usually 1 week per year of service, on low end)

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