Where they gonna find replacement engineers, ain't just anyone can drive a train.

Company I work for use to give us 10 Covid days. As of Jan1 if you have covid sick leave has to be used. If you have to quarantine because of contact tracing then vacation has to be used. Unless your an office worker then you can work from home.

Pretty sure it takes a few days to learn how to drive a train. Im guessing it would take a minute to to train 17000 new train drivers

Without a doubt what’s wrong with American corporations today, how about we value the employees we have that have sacrificed a lot for the company!



Not true at all!!



They are begging for people every day, you will probably get hired on the spot but I wouldn’t recommend it if you ever want a weekend or holiday off or plan on watching any of your kids ball games and the pay isn’t that good. I’ve been there 19 years and seen some insane changes. The only reason I’m there is I only have 11 left. Imagine being forced to work a holiday and not even getting time and a half or scheduling a paid off day that you earned and them taking it out the day before. BTW I’m not pro-union at all, I think they suck!

Idk, but I’m waiting on some of these warrior met fellas to start selling trucks on Craigslist.

OBH how are people abusing Covid time off? Sick is sick and companies require a dr excuse if the employee is off for a certain amount of time.

Jake... screw you. It’s the employee’s time that they’ve worked for and accrued whether it’s sick time or vacation time. So yes, I and everyone else that has time accrued due to being committed to the company. Oh and by the way jake... I have almost 1000 hrs of sick time that I can’t use unless unless I use 40 hrs of vacation time first.

So you’ve worked for them For 19 years and only have 11 years left or 11 months left? It doesn’t sound like you are crazy about them.. if you have 11 years and miserable, I would leave. People fall into the trap of thinking they can only retire from where they are or NEED to stay just for the retirement. A lot can be done in 11 years that would put you above and beyond what any company offers.

You should be a business owner. I don’t get sick time or vacation. Phone and computer are always with me. Even on vacations I have to set aside time to handle quotes, reports, customer calls, etc. But there are perks like slipping off some mornings and afternoons.

Sounds like a sales job with a higher income potential

Whole lot kore stress though. If I don’t sell there’s several families that don’t eat. Not just mine.

People are abusing the quarantine. I know of 2 that had to take 10 days and spent 5 in Florida at the beach.

Regardless, no company should be able to FORCE an employee to use earned time for covid, sick time , pto, or vacation.

The employer SHOULD have the right to NOT pay the employee at their discretion , but that’s about as far as it should go.

This is where Trump and Biden both handled this poorly and unprofessional. A simple EO by either stating what I typed would remove all grey areas with covid work days missed. If a company took PPP money in my opinion they forfeit the right to decide they can take/steal an employees earned days of time off.

Playing devils advocate here.

Making any changes to corporate policy in regards to Covid sets a precedent. Next year that same company could be taken to court if we had a bad stomach virus or flu year. Where does it stop?

Heck the railroads cut back so far to the quick that they're working EVERYONE, EVERY DEPARTMENT into the ground.
In the mechanical department folks are being forced over to work 16 hours. It takes awhile to train anyone to be able to do the job safely.

What the hell is vacation time or pto never seen or had that

PTO is paid time off. PTO is awarded on your date of hire anniversary date and normally you get x number of weeks after 90 days and x number of days added the next anniversary hire date to be used.

Vacation is when a company adds hours to a time off bucket during each pay period. Some get 3.5 hours every 2 weeks, some get more.

In some states Vacation has to be paid out to the employee when they quit or are fired. PTO does not depending on the state law.

Also , companies in America have the option to only allow x number of hours to be rolled over into the following year with PTO or vacation. Most companies only allow 40 hours to roll over. So....if your employer made you work 6 and 7 days a week and you couldn’t schedule time away from work, they legally get to “keep” the time you earned and have no obligation to pay you for it or allow you to roll it all over. That is theft by the employer against the worker , but legal in America.

I would just come to work sick.

You have no understanding of current labor laws.

I thought we didn't want The Government -- whether it's Biden or Trump or any of them -- telling businesses what they have to do.

If JB or DJT had imposed a mandatory 10-day Rona Medical with or without pay, some folks would have been chitting their pants about it.

But now with ET or PTO or vacation or whatever gone or almost gone or eaten away and companies saying, "Sorry, that's how it is" some folks are clamoring for more government oversight and decrees.

Either you're for less government or you're not.

Agreed. If your company decides to hit your vacation time when you are sick, it’s time to change companies. My vacation time is when I plan to be off. If I get sick, that’s what sick time is for. Any deviation from that format it’s time to find new work. The government needs to stay very far away from the private sector. It will work itself out in time. The free market auto corrects pretty quickly.