To many Educated Idiots running things - Anonymous employee Union Pacific Employee Review

They have a lot of college boys and girls that have never had a nything to do with railroading before. All they have is a college education so the company makes them managers to tell someone that has ran an engine or worked railroad for 20, 30, and even 40 years how to do it, cause that is what they read in a book. Or that is what the computer tells them they can do. Some of the managers up to and including a V.P. of the Northern Region have never been in an engine or worked a yard. You can get a promotion if you have an education. But not if you just have 10 or more years of doing the job. You are treated like a drone to make money so the big shots can get millions in bonuses. All they care about is themselves and looking good for the big boys. That way they can get their bonus also. They put on a show of Goodwill to some to get headlines and get people to think they are a good company. They hire a lot of military people because they are already conditioned to take orders without question and be like sheep led to slaughter. You will not have a life working there unless you work in the Palace or are a manager. Train Engine and Yard people are beat and abused and used constantly. Some of the managers enjoy doing it to. I was always told the "The easiest thing to lose, But the hardest thing to get is.....RESPECT". They don't understand that and then they wonder why they have a hard time getting anyone to do anything for them.