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A crazy day, but at least it was short!!!

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LC, <br /> <br /> Thanks for the previous ancedote. Wow, we don't have anybody threatening the lives of others verbally, but there is one engineer qualified conductor that scares everyone to death. Many people lay off if they get called to work with this person. Recently this "person" was called as an engineer to take a piggy back to Chicago because there were no available engineers. On the return trip the chief road foreman rode back with this person and the word is he called up our road foreman and told him it was the scariest ride of his life. The "person" had no idea what signals to follow, what track they were on half the time, and had to rely on using that little yellow ball on the computer screen to keep speed, and had all their timetables and rule books out in front of them!!! I'm fine with referencing your rule books and timetable to make certain of something, but this person relies on these books the entire trip every time! I'm no engineer, but I believe the lay of the land is a much better indicator as well as trailing tonnage and what you have pulling the train. To say the least the chicago road foreman had a talk with our road foreman, but I don't know if anything will be done. This "person" as a conductor sleeps all the time and when they have to get on the ground they are a lost cause. One time this individual had to pull out of a yard track with 55 cars. The movement was stopped at about 30 cars and then the engineer was told to back up. In the meantime the conductor had thrown the switch underneath the train. Soon enough there were cars on the ground. The reply of the conductor was: "the switch didn't look right, so I threw it." [V] How this person still works for the RR, I don't know. This individual is capable of devastating things due to their own ingnorance or just plain "wacked" state of mind. The terrible thing for those of who are called to work with this individual must make a choice; do I risk working with this individual at great personal danger or the risk of getting time on the street or do I call off sick and risk disciplinary action??? A no win situation.
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