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So Amtrak has 20,183 employees of which 2,766 are back office so lets just pay them to put passengers in Amtrak Employees cars and drive them!

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So Amtrak has 20,183 employees of which 2,766 are back office so lets just pay them to put passengers in Amtrak Employees cars and drive them!
Posted by CandOforprogress2 on Thursday, June 14, 2018 1:09 PM

Amtrak carries about 60,000 passengers a day. Amtrak has 20,183 employees most of which have cars that have at least 4 open seats. We could get rid of the national long distance rail system and start a national AmUber car service that shuttles people anywhere they need to go using all those Amtrak Employees.

FY16 Amtrak had 20,183 full-time or full-time equivalent employees.  Of this number 2,766 or 13.7 percent were involved in support functions, i.e. Office of the President,

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Posted by PJS1 on Thursday, June 14, 2018 3:22 PM

CandOforprogress2

Amtrak carries about 60,000 passengers a day. 

In FY17 Amtrak had 31,738,000 riders or a daily average of 87,068.  In FY16 it had 31,274,000 riders or an average of 85,448 per day.

A couple of weeks ago I watched an interview with Condoleezza Rice.  She opined that most federal departments could cut 10 percent of the workforce and continue to function without any impairment.  I suspect Amtrak could do the same. 

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Posted by runnerdude48 on Thursday, June 14, 2018 3:34 PM

This shouldn't be a problem because passengers don't equate to people.  If you take 4 Amtrak trips a year you are counted as 4 passengers but in reality you are still only one person.

 

I'm not an Amtrak employee but if i was I would sign up for the Sunset Route in the winter and the Empire Builder in the summer.  That would work out to be a nice gig.

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Posted by charlie hebdo on Thursday, June 14, 2018 5:16 PM

This is one of the silliest threads ever.

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Posted by CandOforprogress2 on Thursday, June 14, 2018 6:32 PM

satire just satire

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Posted by SD70Dude on Thursday, June 14, 2018 6:54 PM

charlie hebdo

This is one of the silliest threads ever.

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Posted by charlie hebdo on Thursday, June 14, 2018 7:33 PM

duplicate

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Posted by zugmann on Thursday, June 14, 2018 8:18 PM

SD70Dude
Gotta love Raymond

He's never boring.  Have to give him that.

It's been fun.  But it isn't much fun anymore.   Signing off for now. 


  

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