Amtrak also hired six A/C's to cover the train crews and extra boards for the Crescent and the Texas Star break-off. They trained the six brakeman and immediately cut 5 off. The officials, who were supposed to promote the Texas Star, sat in their offices for almost four years for a train that NEVER ran !!! ....
Now, the train crews have to go through a shoe shine parlor to get to their lockers and tie up room across the street in an old dilapitated building. Again, there is plenty of space in the new depot to accomodate them without having to go to the back of an old building. Bah, humbug !!!
Management at its best. I could make a lot of comments, but these forums are a bit too public to quote some of the more hilarious examples I have been around since I would like to keep working a few more years. (When you work basically by temporary employment contracts, you don't make the management type idiots mad. They don't have to fire you, just forget you exist when your current contract expires. Of course if they though they really needed you to make them look good anything can be overlooked. Also, be nice to the admin types. They can either lose your paperwork or expedite it, and the good ones seem to be really unappreciated by the same geniuses in management that are a pain to everyone else.)
George