2y ago

What's a company secret you can share now that you no longer work there?

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I worked for for the railroad. Nothing is fixed ever. I witnessed hundreds of code violations every day for years. Doesn't matter if a rail car or locomotive meets code as long as it "can travel" its good to go.
When an employee inspector finds a defective rail car management determines if it will get fixed. If the supervisor "feels" like "it's not that bad" then the rail car is "let go".
- Oh, so like ambulances in the USA.
  "The ambulance had issues making it unsafe (or even illegal) to drive? But it can still drive down the road? Doesn't seem too bad: keep an eye on it."
  
  You'd think they'd have money to keep it pristine, with how much a short ambulance ride costs in the USA
  
  With the amount of money a 3 mile ambulance trip costs, you could buy a beater car and drive yourself there.
  
  Just like hospitals, that money is going straight to the top and staying there.
- "That busted wheel bearing isn't so bad." -Rail inspector in Ohio
- US? Or somewhere else? Not saying that it doesn't happen other places just curious.
  
  The use of 'railroad' instead of 'railway' would seem to indicate American English
  
  There's three ways to do a job. The right way, the wrong way, and the rail way. Also it was the great white north!
  
  What do they call those in other countries?
  
  If I had to guess, 'railway'.
  
  Oh wow, I can't read apparently haha. Thank you.
  
  OOOOOOOH CAAAAAANADAAAAAA!
  
  Usdefaultism says US.
- A lot of US freight railroads seem to love to manage themselves into the ground.

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