> Just today, he graduated from training
> and is now marked up as a full fledged (SEMI) Conductor.
>
> Does that make him a "chip" off the old Block
>
> Jim S
Jim...
Son Alan is not a chip off my block since I neither worked for a real
RR nor served in the military. I did once think about becoming the
Engineer on the 20th Century Limited, but that fantasy was replaced
with reality while still in high school. So I became an engineer of
a different sort. There was also that brief moment in history when I
dreamed of playing first base for the New York Yankees. That, too,
was replaced with reality after I saw lotsa kids much better than I
on the field.
Regarding "semi" Conductor, his pay scale starts at 75% (I think) of
the normal full pay. It advances 5% each year until he reaches full
pay. However, the union negotiations are going on right now and it
appears there is a good chance that Trainees will win the right to go
to full pay immediately upon completion of training. If that
happens, then Alan will receive full pay starting in early 2009. Not
bad for eight weeks after being a Trainee. So it is possible that he
will be a "semi" conductor for only a very short time.
He got his first NS pay raise only two weeks after becoming a
Trainee. Turns out all Trainees got a pre-programmed raise and the
timing was purely coincidental. Nobody told him about it until it
showed up in his pay check. Neat surprise, eh?
Semiconductors and chips are part of my life here in the silicon
valley area, but only tangentially. Unlike diodes, I conduct in both
directions. DC and DCC. Ha!
Cheers...Ed L.
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