Tales from the Railroad...

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Today I am going to talk about the men I work with and I use the word men loosely.  In case you're not aware I am a female working in an industry of men and not just any men but men that feel women don't belong here.  I am an engineer in the railroad, and if you think it's 2019 and things have really changed, THINK AGAIN!  I will give you a little background so you can see the whole picture.  I came from the private sector to work in a government agency.  I started out as management but even there you really couldn't show you had any kind of brains.  I had my cheerleaders and my haters, but at least I didn't go through some of the things I'm going to share with you here today.

I've been on the non-management side of things for six years now, I've worked as a brakeman, conductor, yardmaster and for the last five years an engineer.  I like what I do for a living but I don't Love what I do for a living and yes there is a huge difference between the two.  I enjoy my job, for the most part, what I don't enjoy are the people I work with and yes you've guessed it it's mostly men.

If you think the days of men being upset a woman is doing "their" job are over, they're NOT.  I've been told I belong in the kitchen and not here.  I've been told I should find a man that would take care of me and maybe he could come work at the railroad.  I've been physically hurt, literally thrown off a train almost killed, (that one took me about two years to fully recovered, not completely healed yet) still I came to work like nothing ever happened.  As of late I had a conductor come at me and for the first time I went back at him, needless to say the "men" I work with decided at the bequest of said conductor to give me a hard time, not speak to me, not work with me, some "men" wouldn't even give me a mandatory job briefing, they would say something like you can read.  Others threw my orders away, hoping maybe I would get fired.  This particular situation with this conductor ended up going to EEO, mostly because for some dumb reason this idiot thought I told someone in upper management and told on himself.  Long story short an upper manager; another female gave EEO a message to tell me to "Play nice with the boys or I would be brought up on an investigation", in other words, she was looking to fire me.  I never went through with EEO as I felt this place is nothing but a boys club anyway and I would end up losing big.

It's hard to go to a job every day where you know all the people there are Yes Men.  No one thinks for themselves, there is not one person you can have a conversation that isn't dumbed down just so you can fit in.  I used to like these people and after the situation, with the one conductor, I couldn't bear to be around them.

When I first left management to go into a department/field I knew nothing about, I was excited. Excited to learn, to step outside my comfort zone.  None of that was easy and I didn't expect it would be, but with the treatment and hard lessons, I've had while being in the transportation department all I feel is heartbroken that the world has produced such narrow-minded people that they think as if they were around in the 1950s when most men felt women belonged in the kitchen.  I'm not sure how many women keep quiet about the things that have happened to them at work but I no longer want to keep quiet for an industry that still thinks men belong and women don't.

Tell me some of your stories...
Tell me about your heartbreak...

Remember...Be Inspired to Be Better, to Listen and to Dream Big!

Sending mad Love to all...


...Mayra






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