A fellow motorcycling friend of mine a decade ago was a train engineer for the local railroad. They closed our Clovis office and moved him to Amarillo, TX may be 7 years ago.
They had him working very long hours, was hardly home. He had a heart attack and had to have life saving surgery, was out for a couple months recuperating on sick leave. I gather that stress on the job did him in.
I'd never want to work for a private utility such as those US train companies. They work them to death with excessively long hours. They don't get holidays off. Their seniority rules requires one of them to retire, quit or die off before another can assume seniority. (Seniority helps to get preferred days off for holidays, etc. My friend had a dozen years in, but not enough for getting preferred days off.)
It is a wonder that there aren't more accidents, just saying.
Seems the ultra wealthy who control these companies (stock holders, etc.) don't give a flying rip about the happiness of their workers, but how they can squeeze more work out of them without significantly increasing benefits, time off, retirement, and etc. It goes to show that their lack of benevolence, only interested in their bottom lines and agendas are more important than people's lives. It adds weight to the statement,
"For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some have been led astray from the faith in their greed, and have pierced themselves through with many sorrows." (1 Timothy 6:10 WEB) It makes one wonder how a Pandora's box of evil has been unleashed on us.
The gains made by unionization and salt of Christianity, which gave stability to marriages, employer and employee relationships, moral guidance in school teaching,
"love your neighbor as yourself" have all eroded to nonexistence. Everything now is about the mighty buck / quid, lack of respect for privacy in the name of "security", vilification of people for their skin color through "justice quotas" (a moronic statement if I ever heard them!
). Wrong used to be judged by the actual crime committed, not some other flimsy excuse.
The honor of serving as a law enforcement officer has been given over to politics, causing many a fine officer to quit the force and find other work.
I would say ditto to those who also do inspections of our infrastructure. Many a state engineer have warned the politicians that aging bridges needed repair/replacement, only to go unheeded for YEARS with catastrophic results, people dying needlessly. This is because these politicians only cared about actions to buy votes versus what overall benefits the peoples of their localities.
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