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Originally Posted by engsjh
Whatever.If you are 58 yeras old and can hold decent jobs (since there are no great ones) that is earning seniority. If you are out here passed 60 it is for these reasons: 1.) You are a buff and love the RR (2.) You married someone a lot younger and she/he can't collect their half until 60. (3.) You messed up and had a kid when you were 50. (4.) You have nothing better to do than to come into work everyday and bitch about whatever you can and LOSE $$$$$ or at the most work for $3.00 per hour.
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If you are bitching about somebody not retiring you are either: 1) You can't keep you head in your pants and have to provide for too many kids (like one previous whinny-ass poster) 2) You think because you went through ACT training and made $600 (now) a week for about five months you paid your dues and are entitled to a regular job that is held by a
real railroader who has accumulated more time on the shitter in a locomotive cab than you have time on the property 3) You didn't listen to any of the craft veterans tell you that it is FEAST or FAMINE out here 4) When old heads told you their woes and hardships about having to travel to chase the work, you heard what you wanted and thought that since you hired out at ONE terminal, you couldn't be removed 5) you hired out on the railroad late in life (40-50 years old) from another job that was great but folded up, and equate your age synonymous with your senority, and shoot your mouth off like you've been on the railroad since you were eighteen 6) you are so naive to predict, as if you have a magic crystal ball, what kind of shape and circumstances you'll be in thirty years from now (let me say this: when asked in kindergarten what I wanted to be when I grew up, it wasn't working on the railroad). So while you may know now what you'll
be wanting to do thirty years from now, what you'll
be needing to do maybe different 7) when the old heads told you people will crawl out of the woodwork and come to your current terminal (a terminal they hired out of before you were even a gleam in your recruiting officer's eyes) as soon as they could hold a regular job, you thought they were senile and trying to scare you.
But enough of this. I could go on. The point is, as mentioned before, many of those who could retire but stay around are, to a point,
are on our side. They are the ones who keep the extra boards turning because they only want to work four days instead of five days on the local or yard job, they are the ones who thumb their noses at these snotty nosed young faced trainmasters and keep them flustered enough that it takes the attention away from the younger work force who aren't "bullet proof," they are the ones who have a store of knowledge they are trying to pass along to the younger ones and leave the railroad in good hands, but we think they are screwing us, they are the ones who have
lived through times when drugs were out here, and there weren't radios to communicate to each other on a
five person crew, and all this 3 step, and safety stop, and double check weren't standard operating procedure. Railroaders died, sorry to say, more frequently than now.
And you know something? These guys lived through these hard, dangerous times for a reason. They know how to railroad and they are sly as a hungry cat. They didn't get this far along having their head stuck in the sky.
So all the naysayers who want to wine because of someone working past Sixty: you don't know that you don't know. You don't have it all figured out and the big picture ain't what you see on that new 60" LCD television you just charged on your credit card.
01-09-2009, 10:21 AM
I don't have a bad attitude, you just don't get it.
