Inspection Crew: Service Request EVERYTHING

General Extra says “You can’t service-request everything.” 

Brother Eric, The Annoying Union Rep says “You CAN service-request everything.”

General Extra says do your checklist and mop the shop floor at 12:45 pm. Rush! Rush! Hurry!

Brother Eric, The Annoying Union Rep says keep following that inspection bulletin to the letter, order all the parts needed for your service requests, double-check, triple-check and leave that mop in the bucket until you are completely done!

We are union workers: Your job is inspect the rail cars. Not take jobs from Janitors! Don’t be a SCAB! 

To hell with that hurry-up, slave-driving, unsafe tyrant!

Clean off those knuckle pins, welds and snow shields. Hit those beam bolts with the Megger. Scrub the muck and mud out of those breathers. Keep the frigging pry-bar and hammer in the toolbox and take apart and torque those derailers to 110 ft. lbs. Tolerating wiggling side trips forces Train Operators to endanger their lives and delays riders. Any part of the bubble outside of the lines is an inch too low; adjusting beams is a two-person General Repairer job (not Inspector).

Our eagle-eyed PM and midnight coworkers can only catch and cover for so many of the rush-rush inspections before something blows up, y’all!

Keep doing all those repairs to the detriment of your inspection, so you can chill and keep General Extra off your back if you want. Make General Extra happy if you want. Maybe he will hook you up with a favor—an expensive, deadly favor!

The slave-driving General Extra will either get you written up or get you killed—or someone else!

Do your job, Inspection Crew: Service request EVERYTHING. Preserve our jobs! Preserve human lives!

DO CTA MISMANAGEMENT NO FAVORS. 

Service-request everything! Do every single item in your Inspection Bulletin and related Bulletin. The lives of riders and coworkers depend on us doing our job by the book.

That is safe. That is righteous.