Amtrak Staff members on AU?
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Acela150
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Yes there are. Although I'm not one of them, I do work for CSX.
There are current Amtrak employees who are AU members, but they may not be willing to identify themselves.
tim49424
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A few do, however, which surprises me.
I agree, employees have gotten into big trouble for their Social Media Posts @ many jobs.
tim49424
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I guess that doesn’t apply to Amtrak employees and social media. I have half a dozen on my Facebook friends list and most are active. One of them told me they cannot do anything on their phones at work, however, except if it’s work related.
Seaboard92
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There are several Amtrak Employees on here but you won't get a single name or user name of any of them from me. I'm a private car guy so I'm not with Amtrak.
Out of curiosity, when traveling on Amtrak and talking with the crew members do any of you mention (promote) the Amtrak Unlimited website?
tim49424
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I've not promoted AU to my crew member friends because they're all aware about it because of a mutual friend who is a member here has already told them about it. Most of my promotion is if I make a new friend who is a fellow passenger, I'll tell them about AU.
Actually that isn't true. Employees have been disciplined about statements made on social media (primarily Facebook).
As is well known, I retired from Amtrak 3 years ago.
I worked for Amtrak in the past, for 15 years, among several other transportation companies over a 49 year period.
AU didn't exist, when I worked there, but if it did, I would have been careful about posting.
When I worked for American Airlines, we were warned, and reminded (and even had to do periodic online 'confidentiality lessons' on SABRE), about not disclosing Company internal information...
AU didn't exist, when I worked there, but if it did, I would have been careful about posting.
When I worked for American Airlines, we were warned, and reminded (and even had to do periodic online 'confidentiality lessons' on SABRE), about not disclosing Company internal information...
Seaboard92
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And I'm sure AA and the airlines closely monitor the vlogs and blogs by their crews who are posting them as well.
And that is probably true of any company sensitive about their intellectual property and public image...
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I'm, in reality, an Amtrak executive, as you can plainly see from my constant praising of the wonderful job they and I do.
Almost all. No, make that all, large companies have fairly well defined social media policies that are communicated to employees. Generally speaking, the risk of commenting or supplying inside info is not worth the risk of being outed. Obviously, it's easy enough to cloak one's identity but it generally stops employees from posting on their public social media channels.
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At the high tech large companies that I worked for the consequence of posting proprietary info on social media was summary dismissal, consisting of being walked out the door by a company security person. At one company no time was given even to pick up your stuff from the office. That was boxed by the company and shipped out to the fired employee later.
So in short, you just did not do it if you valued your job and salary.
Amtrak has generally been way more lax than that. Parts of Amtrak still leak like the sieve.
So in short, you just did not do it if you valued your job and salary.
Amtrak has generally been way more lax than that. Parts of Amtrak still leak like the sieve.
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Seaboard92
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At the high tech large companies that I worked for the consequence of posting proprietary info on social media was summary dismissal, consisting of being walked out the door by a company security person. At one company no time was given even to pick up your stuff from the office. That was boxed by the company and shipped out to the fired employee later.
So in short, you just did not do it if you valued your job and salary.
Amtrak has generally been way more lax than that. Parts of Amtrak still leak like the sieve.
Amtrak has been cracking down on some bits of it from what I've been hearing. They started with private car owners in Amtrak yards like Chicago.
