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Hello all, just finished my Remote Control training this past Friday. I marked up on the switchman's extraboard on Sunday and worked that night during third trick. The best part of remote training for me was learning more about the locomotives themselves and more about the both independent and automatic braking systems. I also enjoyed working three straight weeks of days having weekends off. I've had several engineers come up to me and ask me why I would go to remote, one even went to so far as to call me a sell out!! From a previous posting you all already know why i chose the remote route and that's the same reason I gave them. <br /> I've discovered one thing about working the yard that i do not like whatsoever that may bring trouble between myself and many of my coworkers. I am new to the remotes, and I work very carefully with them; many of my coworkers say I go too slow and they want a quit so they can go home, BUT I"M NOT ABOUT TO RISK MY JOB OR A LIFE OVER A TWO HOUR QUIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Why does everyone have to be in such a hurry?? My first job out of training I was receiving a lot of verbal assualts from my foreman over the radio!!!! "you know you can go 10 mph on these yard tracks!" "How long does it take to make a cut??" "Blah Blah Blah." And then what made me even more mad is that my foreman, who hasn't been in the yard that long herself starts messing with the switchlist and doesn't like the way the yardmaster does her job!! So now my switchlist is garbage because every move we make is changed. And it's all because we would have had to handle a few cars twice. Big deal, if we had gone by the switchlist in the first place we would have been done a long time ago. By the end of the night I had enough and the foreman could tell. She eventually apologized and said she was just used to working with someone more experienced and she realized I'm new and it will take a little time for me build up speed. When we were finished that morning the yardmaster approached me and said "Your foreman was way out of line and you know you don't have to put up with that right?" I told her I knew and that she had already apologized to me earlier. It was a long cold night with more aggravation than neccessary [V]. <br /> However, I won't let anyone bring me down. I'm stil new and I try very hard to do my job the best I can. So, with that off my chest people can say what they want; I'm here to work and make money if I don't fit into the "system" too bad. [soapbox]
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