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Re: Lower Montauk Branch Passenger Rail Study (Final Report 2018) could cost over $2 Billion |
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Posted by randyo on Fri Oct 4 15:48:07 2019, in response to Re: Lower Montauk Branch Passenger Rail Study (Final Report 2018) could cost over $2 Billion, posted by AEM-7AC #901 on Fri Oct 4 01:58:12 2019. Not necessarily. I recall a line supt who came from an outside agency and never worked his way up through the ranks. Back in the day, when we had trainmasters, they were required to take a written civil service exam to demonstrate how much actual knowledge they had, pass it and were then called in list order based on how well they scored on their exam. They also had a year’s probation during which the dead wood could be weeded out if they didn’t measure up. Now the supts are appointed based on how well they suck up to upper management and their so called performance evaluation is a lot more discretionary so that certain “fair haired boys” often slide regardless of their incompetence. We had 2 C/Rs assigned the the schedule office on light duty assignments and because they were “useful” to the operation of the office when the regular scheduling staff were made managers, were elevated directly to supts without even having been the lowest level of supervision. A former director of schedules was appointed to a managerial position directly from the outside and at one point had to take the open competitive C/R exam in order to obtain some sort of permanent civil service status while still remaining in the management position. At one point the Chief Transportation Officer, a position normally filled internally by trainmasters, was appointed from the outside because he was a friend of Gunn and his sidekick Feely. |
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