Those itv/btv crew room tv are so boring. They show the same stories over and over. Weather report is best thing on there.

Yard air in the Lathrop and Stockton California Yard. According to TSS they're unoperable. The middle break hoses are cut, broken from goat drivers running them over daily. I guarantee air isn't being ran.

I’m a college graduate with a hair bun, skinny jeans, and no railroad experience but I am a yes man. How long until my next promotion?

Just had some of the new hires quit. They worked a few weeks on the out of town jobs to see what the rr life is like.

How many dispatchers were furloughed last year ? How many came back to work at Up ? My point is to say if ya don’t have experienced , qualified dispatchers, how you going to run a rr to get rid of all train and car delivery delays ?

Unfortunately it is only by more and more people quitting is what will force UP as a company to change and treat employees better. Does anyone else think that higher attrition rates can motivate UP to treat the remaining employees little better?... — read more 

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Where did Jim vena go? Who’s he work for?

30 cars hit the ground and toppled over.....BIG train too LOL

Just read about them making the Powder river coal trains 4 miles long soon. Wow , that won’t be much fun.

Which towns are using borrow out tey people ? I heard Stockton is 300 short on crews .

UP is just a stain on my resume, nothing more. Managers mostly strive to make living he-l out of employees' lives. Morale is very low and almost everyone I know is convinced that it can only get worse from here.

Has any of you had or have used the handheld devices supplied to us to throw switches, and all that stuff? What else?

UP is again hiring in Buggersfield.....why?

Was told their jobs will be absorbed by contractors and switchmen. True or not..

P certainly doesn't appreciate nor value professionalism, but again, leaving without notice? Lately, two of my colleagues have left that way. Why do many here give such advice? I’d love to just leave and forget I’ve ever worked here, but I still... — read more 

Can’t find anyone else to take the job. Too many people laid off or fired

I am actively looking for a new job, but until I get it I have to stay in this misery for a while. Everyone has to make the best of their situation and so I wonder what is the best way to deal with a bad job until you get a better offer?

Most of the time we don’t have a ride at all. I love it when a plan comes together.

Here come the contractors. Nuff said.......

National Weather Service has just issued a PDS Thunderstorm warning for NW Iowa Souix City area. Expected winds will reach 105 mph this evening. How many trains is Omaha gonna let turn over in honor of the Shareholders?

https://transportation.house.gov/committee-activity/hearings/board-member-views-on-surface-transportation-board-reauthorization

Agree?

when they planning on more cuts

How do you expect management, most of whom have never been railroaders to run this company well? Some say that a good manager does not have to have a strong technical background. I disagree. Everything would be much better if we had good managers... — read more 

Anybody else get the strike vote letters?

Anybody who mentions liking his job gets his head bitten off in the replies. Why is it so important to you that all of us hate our jobs? I like my job. I enjoy it. I still think that this management is awful and is leading UP into ruin, but that... — read more 

Just like the Bachman Turner Overdrive song , Taking Care of Business, I do that too in my job at Up. I fix things , maintain stuff , order things that people need , etc,,,,. Come to work on time and work sober. The unethical and greedy decision... — read more 

The question may sound harsh, but I’m really interested in how many of you applied for a job here thinking it would be better here than it really is, not because you didn’t have any other option. As for me, I knew it wasn't going to be easy, but I... — read more 

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Link below… The Surface Transportation Board is conducting an in-person hearing April 26-27 (EP 770, Urgent Issues in Freight Rail Service) with the CEOs of the “Big Four” Class I railroads—BNSF, CSX, Norfolk Southern and Union Pacific—on service... — read more 

Been seeing the crew taxis coming back to work shifts. What other locations are seeing taxis back on the job ?

It is supposed to improve network efficiency. Don’t those guys at the STB know we have a plan in place? If they’d be patient and wait till 2020 this is all going to work out. Just need to lay a few more people off and store some more power and... — read more 

Remember when Up sent home many hundreds of good employees without a job , they used super strict medical rules Up used their own health people to look at med history of employees. Never did interview the personal Dr . to get complete health info... — read more 

Are they really fighting for us?

In states without right-to-work laws, religious objectors can send their dues to a charity of their choice instead. You may as well get something for that hard earned money.

Did your trips take less time in hours before psr , for the same route now? Just wondering, how the rr runs after psr for a few years.

UP hiring 1400 employees this year. They say this is to improve service. Hopefully they will not be cut off. Good times!

Unions doesn't have the strength to get us our honest wage increase, boy I can't wait to see our medical package! How about the attendance policy.... we are doomed I say.

The stress for employees is huge and the pressure is increasing every day. Unfortunately I have no other option for now and I have to be here. I wonder if our leadership is under as much stress as most of us are, or are they stress free? Since... — read more