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Jim- I hear you. It is a shame that there are always the guys who think they'll work forever and those who just have to work more than everyone else. I've been jumped so many times on the pools it makes me ill. I guess I'm lucky in a way. I started later in life and although I had to start with at the bottom, I came in at a time of merger and only a few years before the passage of the 30/60 Railroad Retirement law so my seniority has accelerated rapidly and I can hold quite a few decent jobs. Although I have worked on my rest at times for months, I have also been furloughed. We have a cranky old Conductor who was always the quickest to jump the next guy if he could. He didn't need the money, he had been divorced for years from two wives, but he used to brag that he had cash hidden all over his house. So, when his home burned last month (cause-electrical-old wiring) taking his hoard with it, well we felt for him and the loss of his home> I guess he'll just have to work a bit harder. Maybe now, after 40 years on board it's time to pull the pin, but I doubt it... LC
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