CSX employment
Posted: Sat Jun 08, 2019 6:07 pm
Has anyone hear of any body getting hired for grand Rapids mi. The local managment said there 12 in school now.
Rob
Rob
Ahh, the good old GR circle tour. Oughta send them up on a round trip to Baldwin, to make sure those cars see all of the GRR railroads!Raildudes dad wrote:Well I tell them it took a tour of the town and it's still here in Grand Rapids
Call Clutch at the lumber company on Fruit Ridge..."Is this your car?" "Why yes, yes it is." So just take it up and give it to GRE...easy enough. Who finally got paid? Not my problem. Customer gets their product, that's my problem...and its fun to screw around with J-ville who told me "you can't do that..." Bwahahaha. Glad I am GONE!Raildudes dad wrote:Better than the time the computer repeatedly played return to sender with a load until Doc finally manually over rode the computer
It's sad (and a shame) that a foreman/conductor on a yard/local job has to "override" the carrier's computer system in order to get the customer the car they ordered! sheesh!Doktor No wrote: Call Clutch at the lumber company on Fruit Ridge..."Is this your car?" "Why yes, yes it is." So just take it up and give it to GRE...easy enough. Who finally got paid? Not my problem. Customer gets their product, that's my problem...and its fun to screw around with J-ville who told me "you can't do that..." Bwahahaha. Glad I am GONE!
Same baloney goes on in the airlines too! Guy I know (Retired airline agent) loves to tell the story of a bag that was tagged for Minneapolis but kept coming back to Detroit; Minneapolis kept saying that the claim check number was invalid or something. Finally after a couple of days of back-and-forth, he did some digging. Come to find out, some idiot skycap had mistagged it -- there was a claim on it from SEATTLE, complete with the "Invalid claim check number!"Raildudes dad wrote:I don't remember the details anymore but the GDLK system and the CSX system said it wasn't their car and automatically generated a WO and returned it back to the other. I'm tracing it for the customer watching the ping pong across town. Finally Doc got it to go to the GR
Always a nightmare, handling bags. We had seven bags going to Manila when they decided to go via Detroit AND Seattle THEN Narita instead of just being routed through DTW and NRT. We were lucky to push on time. Always something new with the airlines.Eric Berger wrote:Same baloney goes on in the airlines too! Guy I know (Retired airline agent) loves to tell the story of a bag that was tagged for Minneapolis but kept coming back to Detroit; Minneapolis kept saying that the claim check number was invalid or something. Finally after a couple of days of back-and-forth, he did some digging. Come to find out, some idiot skycap had mistagged it -- there was a claim on it from SEATTLE, complete with the "Invalid claim check number!"Raildudes dad wrote:I don't remember the details anymore but the GDLK system and the CSX system said it wasn't their car and automatically generated a WO and returned it back to the other. I'm tracing it for the customer watching the ping pong across town. Finally Doc got it to go to the GR
So, once he found that out, he just correctly tagged it, sent the new claim check number to Seattle, and put it on the next flight out. Did it make it to Seattle that time? Who knows -- he mentions that that particular flight switched aircraft at Minneapolis. For all we know, it may still be bouncing from airport to airport, all these years later!
Saturnalia wrote:Ahh, the good old GR circle tour. Oughta send them up on a round trip to Baldwin, to make sure those cars see all of the GRR railroads!Raildudes dad wrote:Well I tell them it took a tour of the town and it's still here in Grand Rapids
How did loaded coke cars show up on your train? Messed up train order in GR?CAT345C wrote:Saturnalia wrote:Ahh, the good old GR circle tour. Oughta send them up on a round trip to Baldwin, to make sure those cars see all of the GRR railroads!Raildudes dad wrote:Well I tell them it took a tour of the town and it's still here in Grand Rapids
Thats not funny Alex, I had loaded coke loads show up in my train at baldwin for Cadillac before. Messed up my entire block of shortwork and Ludingtons.
What, you mean to say you can’t just interchange them to the GLC at Clare?CAT345C wrote:Saturnalia wrote:Ahh, the good old GR circle tour. Oughta send them up on a round trip to Baldwin, to make sure those cars see all of the GRR railroads!Raildudes dad wrote:Well I tell them it took a tour of the town and it's still here in Grand Rapids
Thats not funny Alex, I had loaded coke loads show up in my train at baldwin for Cadillac before. Messed up my entire block of shortwork and Ludingtons.
Alex, It would be much quicker to interchange them at Reed City and turn them north there rather than Clare.Saturnalia wrote:What, you mean to say you can’t just interchange them to the GLC at Clare?CAT345C wrote:Saturnalia wrote:quote="Raildudes dad"]Well I tell them it took a tour of the town and it's still here in Grand Rapids/quote]
Ahh, the good old GR circle tour. Oughta send them up on a round trip to Baldwin, to make sure those cars see all of the GRR railroads!
Thats not funny Alex, I had loaded coke loads show up in my train at baldwin for Cadillac before. Messed up my entire block of shortwork and Ludingtons.
In the interest of keeping my job, I can't say where or what RR, but it was in Michigan. I was switching cars according to my switch list when I noticed I had 4 empty tankers that were being put on a local going to a place that ONLY receives loads. I called the yardmaster and questions this. He said the computer says their loads and their going to this industry. I tell him I can see the springs are not depressed, a indication of a load or empty and my switch list shows it as a empty. He says he'll get back to me. 5 min later, the trainmaster comes on and asks why I am refusing to follow instructions. I say I am not and was just asking about some cars. He says to follow the list because the computer and billing knows if its a load or empty and where it is supposed to go.When you get a switch list with target tracks THATS where you put the cars. When they were outta whack I would look up the individual cars by looking deeper in the computer. Wasn't hard to do if you knew how but most of the switch people just followed instructions.
...because if you follow instructions you know to be wrong you are guilty of malicious compliance.R.E.A.P.E.R. wrote:the trainmaster comes on and asks why I am refusing to follow instructions. .