Last Friday I listing to my scanner and I herd two engineers talking about “throwing up a job” what dose thins mean? Please let me know thank you.
Are you sure they didn’t say “slowing up a job”?
Routine thing to drag the work out into overtime, hitting the hours of service…
I’m pretty sure he said throwing up the job.
Giving up the assignment/board they are currently working to go to something they think might be better.
In our location, if you are working on an assigned pool turn, you can give up the turn and go the the extra board, assuming there is a junior person on that board. You can’t give up your turn and go to another pool or another turn in the same pool even if one is vacant. Other places may have different working agreements on where they can go once they give up their assignment.
Jeff
They were discussing something about how one of the engineers used to be on the Crystal Lake board and was asked if he got bumped and he said, “no I threw the job up.”
A lot of terminology can be very local - but yeah, threw the job up for bid sounds right.
It might be interesting to find out what kinds of variations to that one exist…
I heard the phrase often enough, but never used it myself. What I would do was officially exercising my seniority. I think “throwing up” a job must be a little more than that…perhaps if I’d gone to an ordinary switchman’s job for a while it would be considered “throwing up” my CRO position.
There were times when even my favorite job made me feel like throwing up…
Quite a few I’m sure, as they will vary from location. Where I’m from they like to say “Pull the pin” when talking about leaving a job, or just marking off.
Around here, that’s usually used when leaving the railroad entirely, either by retiring or resigning.
Jeff
“Put it up…” (for bids) is the phrase here.
I can see the similarity to the phrase shown…
“In the book” means a jobs is listed as vacant and you can bid on it.
Never heard that one, before. Locally we use the term “blanking” for filling in on a job. As in: “what job are you blanking today?” Has to do with blankable attachments, but that’s a whole 'nother story.
Here, if a job is “blanked”, it means it couldn’t be filled from the extra board because no one was rested.
If you are on the board, either switchmans extra board or the engineers board, and accept a call, you are
" filling" the job.
A particular position on an assigned job may be vacant for a day or two if the regular employee “marks off” for a day, calls a “relief”, or calls in sick.
Most of our jobs are assigned jobs, with regular scheduled hours and scheduled days off…if I exercised my seniority and bumped someone off their job, my position as foreman on my current job, the one I am leaving, would be" put in the book" as vacant, open for bids on a seniority basis, (oldest bidder wins) and if no one bid on it, the youngest person on the switchmans extra board with foreman’s rights would be" forced assigned" to it.
Funny how the terms, while close to each other, can have different meanings and use on different terminals.
Here a blankable job is one that only a protected conductor can pull. We have some brakeman jobs that are blankable, and the protected men will place their selves on those. Pretty sweet to ride high paying mainline jobs as a brakeman IMO.