Bad conductors!!
I had a conductor recently that just bitched and complained. He has about 20 years on the job. He started off complaining about waiting on the train and getting the mid dp fueled. We left our starting point and he could not stay off the radio. Every time we got color he would ring the dispatcher asking why we were stopping. He did this about 7-10 times thru the trip. We had some com losses on the etd. Train is 16000 ft long and 19000 tons. It went out and came back in and out several times thru the curves and hills. He rings the dispatcher up for that and tells him we need the roving carman to come out and help us replace the etd. It took an hour to replace that. After that we got held up 2 more times and proceeds to call the dispatcher each time demanding to know why we are stopping. He finally spits out this dispatcher is terrible and doesn’t do his job. The territory is trip planner ran. He then finally goes off on me. He informs me he hates the way I run. He absolutely hates it when we get color and I pretty much shut it down and go into pacing mode to prepare to stop trying not block crossings. This problem for him seems to happen at the bottom of a hill where we lose our momentum. He then bitches about myself and another coworker on how much we blow the horn and he cannot stand stand it for the 160 something crossing when we blow right at the whistle board or before or we blow too long for a crossing. Granted he may be right!!
Any way my only thought was I sure will be glad when 2030 gets here and he maybe gone. But in the mean time I sure wish he would lean his chair back like the rest of them put his hat down or sunglasses, feet on the desk an wake up when we get wherever it is we are going.