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[Anonymous]

Hey everyone! How was everybodies' holidays?? Hope that some of you had a great one. As you know, I worked overtime and my normal shift on Christmas
Eve and Christmas Day, and 'MAN' do my feet hurt (bad corns)!! My ex along with some of my children and grandchildren were in town for a short stay. It really brightened my mood greatly!! Plus, I was on the phone with my girlfriend, my mother and aunt most of the days anyway, so it really made up for the fact that I couldn't be with them at the time.
First update: It appears that my union representative went to labor relation department and so far has blocked my upcoming suspension...whew! I'm hoping he can do more, because I feel this the beginning of what may be a hot issue between myself and my supervisors.
Second update: A coworker of mine, recently was injured at work. He was hurt by faulty equipment that he was instructed to operate. Of course now, our manager has his sights set on punishing him for operating incorrectly. But, too many of us have said that the piece of equipment in question, has been faulty from the time it arrived on the property. There's been times we have refused to use it and have been threatened with disiplinary actions, so we go ahead and it hoping it will fail to prove a point. Well, now it has and in the process has injured someone, but all the managment wants to do is blame my coworker for it. My union representative has his work cut out for him on this one, but I feel that my coworker/my friend will be fine as long as the rest of us can meld and stick together behind him.
Third update: Christmas Eve night, one of the foreman that works with us got injured at the station here in Washington, DC. Apparently, they say he fell backwards off the platform. He hurt his tailbone and his left leg. Good thing, that's all he hurt! No one's for sure how and why he did it, but from the rumors that were spreading is, he said he was trying to check the roof of one the high speed train's locomotives to see if the pantograph was touching the catanary wire when he backed of the platform...go figure? So he's going to be out for a long while.
Anyway, you all have a beautiful rest of the year. I'm going to go do some after Christmas shopping. Have a blessed day!! Railroad on!!!!!!!!!!



Glenn
A Real Railroader...A Real American!!!!!!!!!