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I am getting the following impressions from emails sent to me and postings on various forums; that folks who work for any of the big 4 railroads - BNSF, CSX, NS, and UP, lead the following type of life: 1) RR workers DONOT own or have homes. 2) Instead, these folks are gypsies who live in 1970's van campers, which is the only way they can make their 1.5 - 2 hour call. 3) They are never awake during off hours because they are sleeping... 4) Based on #3 they cannot have children, because you cannot have sex while you are fast asleep. 5) When they are not sleeping, they are working, and when not working they are sleeping. 6) They do not eat because of #5. 7) They cannot shop for groceries because of #5. 8) They cannot shop at all and must get someone else to do it because of #5. 9) They work 30 days a month with no days off. 10) They work 12 hour shifts, then wait 2 hours for a cab, take 2 hours to get home, sleep for 2 hours, get awaken with 2 hour call, and then use up the last 2 off hours to travel to their crew change point. 11) Never get married because unless they meet a woman who lives on a train, in a yard, or in a shop, they have no time to date or hit clubs, etc. 12) If they do somehow get married, they all get divourced because of #1-11. 13) Your paychecks are usually incorrect, late, or never received. 14) The railroad doesnt pay for anything and if there is something they are supposed to pay for, no one knows how to go about getting them to reinburse or pay for it. 15) Locos have no AC or it doesnt work. 16) Locos dont have toilets, they have a hole cut into sheet metal with a bucket welded in place beneath it...this bucket is never emptied. 17) The crew cabs smell of human excrement because of #16. 18) Once hired, the RR will do everything they can to fire you. 19) Despite #18, 75% of RR employees are over age 50 and have been with the RR's for 15-30 years. 20) Most employees working in the yard are killed and injured on the job and its always the employees fault..however all of these injured employees sue the RR because lawyers say its the RR's fault, even if the employee simply slips on ice or is abducted by a UFO. 21) The military is more flexible than the RR. 22) The RR Union is useless. 23) Remote control is taking away jobs, while killing, maiming and destroying RR property. 24) The RR says that despite #23, the equipment is working fine, and it is all employee error. 25) Employees claim the opposite to #24. So what is the truth? I believe 95% of what I hear is exaggerated. There is an old saying: "Dont believe everything you see and only half of what you hear". I think I wil find out on my own. [:o)]
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