

My co-workers will cut any corner they can get away with. Then after awhile management will send an email telling everyone to knock it off. Closing hopper car ports on empty cars most recently. Then nobody does it anyways and there’s no consequences. No follow up. Every single time. After awhile you figure out caring about the slide is a waste of calories and you should just chill and collect the pay until they shutdown one day from pure apathetic incompetent mismanagement.
Once as a teen I forgot I had an extra Sunday opening shift I had volunteered for at a pizza shop I worked part time at. I was passed out at a LAN party after playing Quake 3/SWAT 4 into the early AM hours with the boys when I got an upset voice mail from my boss who said not to show up if i was more than 2 hours late. I asked my dad what to do, and he just told me to show up anyways and try to apologize. tbf I hadn’t no-showed before and I guess boss felt like he had over reacted. I got a 25 cents per hour raise that day.
Other time was layoffs at my 11 year long career now, I had been there for 4 years at the time. Union dictated layoffs went by seniority. I was above 1 other person before the hire date cut off. Phew. We’re doing better these days and a lot of people got hired back eventually.