[PRCo] Re: ANOTHER ACCIDENT

[Fred Schneider]

And I guess, John, the best thing that happened to me was spending  
time working on an ice cream truck, and on an assembly line in a  
factory, and on a factory paint crew and on the sales floor at  
Sears.   Also just numbers.


On Mar 25, 2007, at 2:06 PM, Ken & Tracie wrote:

> They treat their drivers like cr*p. But I suppose that goes without  
> saying.
> There are over 1.2 million residents in Clark County and around  
> 7,000 people
> per month moving here.In each
>
> So perhaps they will exhaust the entire population of the county  
> before they
> start retaining employees.
>
> K.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "John Swindler" <j_swindler at hotmail.com>
> To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
> Sent: Sunday, March 25, 2007 10:31 AM
> Subject: [PRCo] Re: ANOTHER ACCIDENT
>
>
>>
>>
>> I was involved in a couple non-chargable accidents during my first  
>> summer
>> with CTA.  They hired me back for the second summer.
>>
>> As for RTC, if people are using them as an entry level position,  
>> then they
>> need to take a good look at their pay scale and how they treat their
>> people,
>> with emphasis on the latter.  There is a lot of truth to the  
>> allegation
>> that
>> the best recruiter for union membership is upper management.
>>
>> The best thing that ever happened for me in service was to spend  
>> six years
>> as an enlisted person before getting commissioned.
>>
>> John
>>
>>
>>> From: "Ken & Tracie" <ktjosephson at earthlink.net>
>>> Reply-To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
>>> To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
>>> CC: "Charles Brown" <Charlesebrown at webtv.net>
>>> Subject: [PRCo] Re: ANOTHER ACCIDENT
>>> Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2007 09:58:57 -0700
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>
>>> From: "Fred Schneider":
>>>
>>> "He did admit to more accidents than a few..."
>>>
>>> The private company which runs the local bus service for the RTC  
>>> usually
>>> fires a driver after ONE accident. Yet they complain they can't keep
>>> drivers. They also state they believe people use them as an   
>>> entry level
>>> company to gain experience to work elsewhere.
>>>
>>> I wonder how many excellent operators (who planned to stick  
>>> around) have
>>> been canned due to the inevitable unavoidable accident every  
>>> motorman, bus
>>> driver or gripman has experienced in any location on this planet?
>>>
>>> K.
>>>
>>>
>>>
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