Posted on 05/03/2018 2:29:54 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
What would it take to get you to work on the railroad?
A little extra cash? How about a sign-on bonus of up to $25,000?
That's what two major railroad companies are offering in an effort to recruit more workers in what The Wall Street Journal called "a historically tight labor market."
The Journal said BNSF Railway, based in Fort Worth, Texas, and Union Pacific Corp. in Omaha, Nebraska, are filling jobs as the demand rises to ship more products across the western side of the country....
(Excerpt) Read more at kansascity.com ...
Even the females...
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>> “A job at the railroad could get you back on track.” <<
Like those kids in Mena AK that witnessed the drug drops?
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I’m on board with that.
Mena AR not AK. AK is Alaska.
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U is right!
My Bad.
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.He had loco motives................
I like a job with fixed hours, all the live long day doesn’t cut it.
I might. Just to pass the time away.
Knowing my luck my first job would be taking a coal burner through the Taggart tunnel. ;)
True enough. The fuel pressure in the injector lines is high enough to slice your finger off just as clean as a laser beam. And the electric generators on the locamotives could clean out all the death rows in all the states in a few seconds.
This is not a job for someone prone to hangovers or drug abuse. One slip and you or someone else is dead: crushed, sliced, or fried.
So that's what Kanye calls it!
You win the thread.
The military will pay you while you learn a skill AND give you a bunch of money to go to college on. Most kids turn their nose up at that, though.
I wonder if a very interested nearly 47 yr old burned out IT guy with a TV and mechanical background would be of much interest?
Both companies owned by Warren Buffett.
I fixed it.
When the government stops giving welfare to drug users, and other abled bodied Americans, there will be enough people to fill jobs. The fact that companies have to stop drug testing employees, or not have enough help, is one huge consequence of more liberal drug policies. Libertarians, (as well as just plain old druggies) don’t want to be told they can’t use drugs, if they feel like it. If you know anybody who works in most of the fast food and low priced food, and other entry level type businesses, they will tell you that if they demand a clean drug test, their labor pool shrinks considerably. They’ll also tell you that the quality and dependability of most of their employees, is majorly declined. Not to mention the lousy work ethic of a good many millennials. (Older employees, by and large, at this level, make good employees).
My son tried to get railroad jobs. They are tightly held sinecures. They actually only seem to hire family members. Once cannot even get an interview.
2.9% unemployment here in Wisconsin. Very tight.
I don’t think they have any use for a one-legged man in my condition.
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Why not? They had one-eyed engineers driving their trains at one point.
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