Oh and please understand ..and those of you who has served in the
military..there is a LOT of BS involved. After 30 years on and off, I am ready
to call it quits. I am not trying to be oversensitive.
I am just saying that the railroads are actively looking for ex military folks
at this time. The military has also changed in the last 30 years. When I first
went in, I doubt if over half my unit could ever pass a drug test.
--- In CBQ@yahoogroups.com, dhartman@... wrote:
>
> Personally, my comments were not so much against using a military model as an
> operational/structural one, but rather on the attitudes,
> communication/personnel skills of too many in management; on the lack of
> interest in modern work, invesitigatory and safety culture norms; and on the
> primitive, out-of-date working conditions still in use decades after most of
> labor/industry had evolved forward.
>
> Doug
> Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: "Charlie Vlk" <cvlk@...>
> Sender: CBQ@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2012 10:56:59
> To: <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>
> Reply-To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: RE: Fwd: [CBQ] Fwd: Away from home accomodations/was Fire Insurance
>
> Given the character of the characters that work on and those of us that
> appreciate them and the railroads they work on, I doubt that the term
> "militaristic" was intended to be a negative.
>
> This has been touched on before, but West Point was founded not only as a
> Military Academy to train officers for the Army, but to satisfy a need for
> Civil Engineers to build the country (canals and railroads as well as other
> public works).
>
> The Civil War was an incubator for "modern" management organization and it
> is debatable where the main drivers developed their ideas.the military or
> civilian field experience before the war building railroads and other large
> projects.
>
> Certainly the railroads institutionalized the management of large
> organizations and were a big influence on the military, and vice versa.
>
> Your points about veterans and work ethic are valid.
>
> Thank you for your service!!!
>
> Charlie Vlk
>
>
> I know I am an outsider, and I probably have no right to post anything about
> anything in here, but there was a mention of the Raiilroads becoming
> militaristic.
>
> I have been going through a LOT of job fairs, ect set up for veterans. There
> is a magazine out there called GI JOBS and it is set up for employers to
> meet up with potential employees, that are veterans.
> All the major railroads and Amtrack advertise in this magazine. Big full
> page ads. The reasons for wanting veterans are many. We are used to working
> weird hours, we work around heavy machinery and equipment, that we have to
> do our own preventive maintenance on. We are used to following rules. We
> have to shoulder a lot of responsibility that people our age wound never
> even dream of. We are used to traveling. All this at a fairly early age.
> The biggest attraction, so I have been told over and over by people who
> recruit for companies, is that we can pass drug testing. How many 20-30 year
> old civilians could bring that to the table? IF I was 20 years younger, I
> would give the railroads a shot.
>
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