Management has a quota, they are required to give you a fail on something out of the 3 rule books you are supposed to have memorized. They actively hunt you like you are prey, stalk you in personal vehicles and company ones, set up red flag tests, some have even hid in bushes wearing camouflage. The demerit system makes no sense, you and a coworker could both be failed for doing the exact same thing and one of you may get a verbal warning while the other receives 10-30 demerits. You work on a 60 demerit system after that you are a fireable employee. You have to go 365 days with out receiving a single fail no matter the size to have 10 demerits removed from your record. A retired employee told me while I was in training “they’ll (the company) will rush to qualify you, then spend the rest of your career trying to fire you.” Management will actively break the safety rules and turn a blind eye to you doing the same when it benefits them and getting a “priority train” over the road but when it’s the end of the month they seem to heavily enforce the rules. The ATMs they hire usually have 0 experience working the ground and those are the guys coming up with your switch lists, the plans make zero sense and they have no clue on how the operations actually work out in the field. I could go on and on about this company and its faults.
