You know, it amazes me so much that anyone who claims to be in management would illustrate so much anger and hostility towards one craft? earlier today conversations between a few managers and employees as well as myself discussed how employee morale was so low, how so much tension exists in the work place, and how even Helena herself is concerned about the morale problem. With quickness, we pointed out how a number of people in management display hostility towards the employees, almost on a crusade to find something, anything that would draw a bad picture of a labor based employees, perhaps even going as far as to fabricate a story. And if that seperation is not addressed, at some point sooner or later, somebody will get hurt or worse.
Datenail: you obviously have extreme issues, and how anyone with that type of behavior that you are displaying here can be accepted anywhere in any work place is beyond me. You treat your job and your "postion" with an almost goon mentality that should have you fired if anything. You seem to be very confident that your job is a sure thing. But with the amount of years you claim to have on the LIRR, it would be understandable that one foot is probably already out the door. Like so many who approach the finish line, we tend to build up that frustration that was pinned inside for so many years. And yep, much like they will look at the young ones, the old ones will be smoked out aswell. Railroad needs to still function in the future, so how absurd would it be for them to not prepare themselves for the next generation? So I would be more inclined to say at this point that nobody's job is safe, not even the president of the LIRR. I must also say that I applaud Jay Walder as well, because he has been the first Chairman in ages to make mention of cuts to management, (the biggest expense on the payroll), and if you honestly had a true insight to things, you would notice that it's not all union employees who are shaking in their shoes, but managers as well, many who are so concerned, that they are actively looking for a way to safe guard their postion by going above the means of proper protocol and creating things out of the woodworks. And while I chit chat on this site, not revealing anything of major importance, you continue to speak as if you would'nt suffer any consequences for providing so much information. So much excitement you must get out of stirring the pot! You have turned a job into some competition where you feel the need to instigate conflict with others in the work place. While many of us simply come into to work to simply make a living and to go home in one piece, others have a need to cause friction, to make things into an almost HIgh School type atmosphere. And then commuters and Tax payers wonder why money is simply burned faster than it comes in at the MTA? We talk so much about this epidemic of Trainmen bailing from their jobs that we get distracted of all the other illnesses that have infected this place. So much incompetence, so much ignorance exist in this company, and yet you can sit their and boast of your value to the company and to Tax Payers as if you had the answers to everything that is wrong with the LIRR. I'm a tax payer too, and what I see is that my taxes keep going up, some of it heading to the MTA. And yet here we are now, talking about services cuts, laying off employees, rasing fares again. You know, if you are so passionate about doing the public a service, why then would you be up there in agreement with all of these cuts and increases in fares? Do you think that your job will exist if you didn't have those commuters and Tax payers filling up the wallets of the MTA? I know I wouldn't, and yet I have been first in line for years stating how important it is to keep fares reasonable and to keep service at a premium. If this company were in the private sector, it would have closed long ago, and caused by the abuses of all of those who have milked the system on both sides of the fence. So don't come here bickering about how one craft has melted the system while so many fat cats behind desks continue to milk it for all it's worth.
You and I both know that all of this is nothing more than a political Poker game to see who bluffs better, and the outcome of it will ride on this exactly. So really, I say quit the nonesense already. I watch everyday with my own eyes watching employees, both labor and management, milking the system for all its worth. If half of HSF and Jamaica were forced to punch in and out, which is what Management will start doing very soon, the sunny days for many will end, and end fast. I don't care what anyone in my craft thinks, you want us to punch in and out? I don't have a problem with that. I did it in all of my previous Deptartments, and I have done it in my previous jobs prior to the LIRR. I don't have anything to hide because if they wanted to find me, they will, and I will be where I am suppose to be. I don't need some shmuck coming up to me who never worked a train, or even qualified for that matter come to me and tell me anything or where I should be, or when I should be there. I don't need anyone to hold my hand and walk me through the day. I didn't have anyone holding my hand when I qualified, when I knocked my head off trying to study, trying to pass the test ONCE! NO. Don't need any help thank you. No, there is no perfect on our side of the fence, but please cut the c**p and stop acting like you guys are all sints up there. If competence existed in the vast majority of the positions on the LIRR, we would see a totally different LIRR out there, but we don't, and I still believe that the LIRR did so purposely. In any case, I hope for everyone out there has read all of this can see what lurks behind the curtain before this gets locked at some point. Yes, this is what exist both here in the LIRR and probably in other places as well. There is your answer, your explanation all in writing to what is wrong with the picture and why your wallets will always have another hand in it reaching in.
