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Let me add yet another aspect to this seniority discussion by using my own experience. <br />I hired out with NS 9/9/99 along with seven other guys. All eight of us went to conductor training school at the same time, even though I marked-up a month ahead of the others. To assign seniority among our class NS used the last four digits of our social security numbers, in my case my last four digits are quite high so, as it turned out, I was the low man on the "totem pole" even though I was the oldest in age and even though I marked-up ahead of the other new hires. <br />On a 12 man extraboard I was the least in seniority and got the jobs no one else wanted. I knew it would be that way and I didn't complain. A year and a half later all eight of us were either furloughed or accepted transfers to another state due to the re-routing of trains 118 and 119. Goes to show you how quickly things can change in the railroad business.
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