Weed Weasels

Trains Magazine General Discussion
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It’s very simple, I believe in rules compliance and well understand that personal opinion of those rules doesn’t enter into it because personal opinion is that we’ve somewhat entered the age of “Railroading for Dummies”, but it doesn’t matter, compliance keeps me employed. As for observation by supervision, let them watch, but I’ve known of some unreasonable things to happen. It’s undoubtedly the same in every type of work.

Someone wiser than I once told me that in almost every type of work there is, you will find that about 10% of the workforce is exceptional, 80% of them are competent, and the other 10% probably shouldn’t be anywhere on the property. This applied to ditchdiggers as well as CEO’s. I believe that there’s a lot of truth to that.

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Some of the officials who hide out in the bushes at night doing op tests have gone as far to dress in military fatigues and paint their faces black. This is just plain stupid and these are the ones on the rr who have no life at all outside of their job and can be classified as nuts. Some have even sneaked up on train crews and this is a good way to get bopped in the head by a lantern. Some crewmen at night when waiting for a stop signal or a meet, will toss rocks into the ditch to pass time by hoping they nail one of these nutty officials.