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Railroads plan to hire thousands of vets in 2012
Hiring military in the operating crafts is a natural. Put a person on a combat patrol using weapons and put a person on a train moving thousands of tons of engine and cars, in both situations without scripting or rehearsal, but with full responsibility and no on-location managing,
Bring on those veterans; their proven qualities put them ahead of many.
We, hiring for a large company in a large city, were, dare I write it, prejudiced. Bring in performance experience as an individual operator with extreme power (life or death either deserved or accidental) of machines and we grinned.
The dispatcher-hirerer did have a cut-off. In his 50’s, he wouldn’t accept an applicant over 30; their minds weren’t agile anymore.
We liked law enforcement, fire fighters, air traffic controllers, and, applause!, veterans with mech./tech. and admin. experience
Peter why do you have to bring politics into this? It’s just the right think to do!
THe Carriers want Military folks because they are used to carrying out orders no matter how absurd.A company officser actually said to me:“Don’t let common sense get in the way of rule compliance”.
I’m still trying to figure out where the (1) comment is…
I’m a retired soldier, myself, and my military experience is probably the one thing that secured this job for me. Railroads like military personnel because we know how to be somewhere when we’re supposed to be there and can carry out a mission. Railroading is a mission-oriented field of work, i.e., getting the train from point A to point B. It surprises me that the ratio is only 25% as it seems like I know more fellow workers who spent time in the military. Anyway, good to see vets being hired for something that they are probably well qualified for on at least one level.
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I’m a vet looking for a job within the railroad industry. I’ve been to many job fairs and the recruiters all say that I have too much kowledge for some jobs but not the right knowledge for others. We shall see how this plays out. “CSX and NS are you listening?”
Where knowledge is concerned, a recruiter for railroad operating craft personnel saying 'too much" or “or not the right” knowledge…" 'here, a failure to communicate."
Ms/Mr Didas, pls accept my sympathy for your misfortune to be involved with someone who doesn’t know that, armed with your military experience, considering you met the high intelligence and physical requirements to begin with, that you were right for operating craft jobs.
They require people able to acquire a bunch of unique to railroading tasks.
They require most importantly, my opinion alone, people who’ll take the “highball the air” and “permission to depart” as the beginning of an adventure.
They know, and accept, the probability of judging between likely pulverising a family in a station wagon and emergency braking which likely would cause a monster haz-mat disaster caused by violent slowing. Citizens evacuating, 2.5 mile radius.
Hire the Vet’s.
But then my brother’s and I are vet’s.
Haz-mat?
A trainee on the simulator told me that when given a choice between the likely death of vehicle occupants at a grade crossing collision and the possibilty of a huge death toll from a haz-mat derailment, the trainee said that the (book relied upon by certain religious primitives) said to him that he should not kill.
Give me the veterans. Please.
Poison a town derailment 'cause a few words in a funny old book that has 10 rules?
Where knowledge is concerned, a recruiter for railroad operating craft personnel saying 'too much" or “or not the right” knowledge…" 'here, a failure to communicate."
Ms/Mr Didas, pls accept my sympathy for your misfortune to be involved with someone who doesn’t know that, armed with your military experience, considering you met the high intelligence and physical requirements to begin with, that you were right for operating craft jobs.
They require people able to acquire a bunch of unique to railroading tasks.
They require most importantly, my opinion alone, people who’ll take the “highball the air” and “permission to depart” as the beginning of an adventure.
They know, and accept, the probability of judging between likely pulverising a family in a station wagon and emergency braking which likely would cause a monster haz-mat disaster caused by violent slowing. Citizens evacuating, 2.5 mile radius.
Hire the Vet’s.
But then my brother’s and I are vet’s.
Haz-mat?
A trainee on the simulator told me that when given a choice between the likely death of vehicle occupants at a grade crossing collision and the possibilty of a huge death toll from a haz-mat derailment, the trainee said that the (book relied upon by certain religious primitives) said to him that he should not kill.
Give me the veterans. Please.
Poison a town derailment 'cause a few words in a funny old book that has 10 rules?
Wounded Warrior Project - WWP and Fisher House Foundation listed at goodsearch.com .
charityusa.com has click to feed homeless veterans.
A fine announcement, but this is nothing new. RR’s, like other industries such as trucking, know the value of hiring Veterans. I have to wonder like the first poster if this is motivated more for political reasons than actually helping veterans (and I am one).
This is a very good move by the railroads. Being retired from the Air Force many years ago I appreciate very much that these vets are being given this opportunity for employment.
There is another alternative, start a railroad. As a Vet, we were all given training and learned how to perform command, control, operation, and support in a fiscally reliable manner.