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Not that I have anything against the train crews or the other blue-collar folks the UP employs (they're great guys), but as far as their management goes, I'm now a proud member of the UP Dislikers Club.Not going to drop any names here - no need for that.I was over by one of the several UP yards in the Twin Cities area late this past Sat. afternoon (I was early for a dinner engagement and thought I'd snap a few photos from the public access road).  I took a few shots and on the way back to the car I noticed a couple old UP property signs along with some other junk tossed in the ditch near the ROW, and close enough to the tracks for them to still legally be on UP property.  It was obvious the junk had been discarded and from the looks of the signs they'd been there a while.  Nevertheless I let them be - I'm no thief (I'm sure security cameras were watching even if I were).Instead I sent an e-mail to a UP manager for the area from their corporate web-site, explaining exactly where the signs were and I made an offer to buy them, not really expecting the offer would be accepted.  I figured it'd cost nothing to ask - heck it's only junk, right?  I framed the inquiry in friendly and courteous terms.The e-mail answer I got back this morning was terse, blunt and rude, and left me with the impression that just about every comment I've ever heard from people about UP management bein' a buncha jerks were dead on the money.
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