by jaymac
Dear Santa,
Please, sir, I want some more. I know that sounds a bit like Oliver Twist -- okay, more than a bit -- but consider what my fellow posters and I and -- far more importantly -- the workers and customers past and present of Pan American Railways and its interests and assigns as they may appear have seen and experienced over the last bunch of decades.
I don't want to appear ungrateful for the improvements that have recently taken place. They're awesome. I just want some more of them and quicker. I know I've sometimes seemed sour, but I don't want to 86 anything. What I want is to 286 everything. Yes, I know that one of my fellow posters has claimed that 263 is 286, but if you substitute an "=" for "is," you then get what looks to me like an inequality statement, but I'm an English major in recovery and not a mathematician so my reading may be suspect. I do remember enough from my sophomore Economics classes to know that there exists something called "pent-up demand." Perhaps that phenomenon is what so many of us are now undergoing. To go all cliché, a corner has been turned, but there's still miles to be traveled and promises to be kept, to go all indirect and rephrased quotation.
If I could list a few things, besides the 286 projects, these might serve as guidance for your generosity.
-Please do what you can to exalt the valleys, make the mountains and hills low, and the crooked straight within the confines of Gardner Yard. I'm getting Toonerville Trolley flashbacks from the yard tracks there.
-Make even better the improving relationships with connecting, trackage, and overhead lines because what goes well for one can go better for all.
-Keep on reducing en route power failures. Even the Ponies can throw a shoe, but keeping things moving is critical to reliability and customer confidence.
-Keep on reducing the adversarial relationship between workers and management. Committed -- not fearful and resentful -- workers are the best guarantor of a prosperous future. All it takes is a series of protracted job briefings to bring things to a halt.
I could go on, but I've already overfilled the window, and others may want to add.
Thank you!
jaymac
Please, sir, I want some more. I know that sounds a bit like Oliver Twist -- okay, more than a bit -- but consider what my fellow posters and I and -- far more importantly -- the workers and customers past and present of Pan American Railways and its interests and assigns as they may appear have seen and experienced over the last bunch of decades.
I don't want to appear ungrateful for the improvements that have recently taken place. They're awesome. I just want some more of them and quicker. I know I've sometimes seemed sour, but I don't want to 86 anything. What I want is to 286 everything. Yes, I know that one of my fellow posters has claimed that 263 is 286, but if you substitute an "=" for "is," you then get what looks to me like an inequality statement, but I'm an English major in recovery and not a mathematician so my reading may be suspect. I do remember enough from my sophomore Economics classes to know that there exists something called "pent-up demand." Perhaps that phenomenon is what so many of us are now undergoing. To go all cliché, a corner has been turned, but there's still miles to be traveled and promises to be kept, to go all indirect and rephrased quotation.
If I could list a few things, besides the 286 projects, these might serve as guidance for your generosity.
-Please do what you can to exalt the valleys, make the mountains and hills low, and the crooked straight within the confines of Gardner Yard. I'm getting Toonerville Trolley flashbacks from the yard tracks there.
-Make even better the improving relationships with connecting, trackage, and overhead lines because what goes well for one can go better for all.
-Keep on reducing en route power failures. Even the Ponies can throw a shoe, but keeping things moving is critical to reliability and customer confidence.
-Keep on reducing the adversarial relationship between workers and management. Committed -- not fearful and resentful -- workers are the best guarantor of a prosperous future. All it takes is a series of protracted job briefings to bring things to a halt.
I could go on, but I've already overfilled the window, and others may want to add.
Thank you!
jaymac
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