Real Talk with Mayra

As I write this post tonight, I write it with a heavy heart.  You may think Code of Blue is about police officers, but it is not, it's about Conductors, Train Conductors to be exact.  See they too wear a Blue Uniform.  They also have a code, where they seem to think you should never tell on one another.  It seems the ones that make sure you know about this code are the ones that are doing something wrong and don't want to, how should I say, lose their jobs. I spoke to an old friend the other day, he now carries a big responsibility at the company and asked about a situation with an employee, and how he felt she lied about something, much to his surprise I informed him, she had not lied.  The men that work for him had lied. This company has a lot of managers that turn a blind eye to the things that go on in the ranks.  Especially when it comes to their men.  Let me tell you some of the things I've witnessed or were a target of and how the manager...

In a recent post, I mentioned that I work for the railroad.  I am an engineer, a locomotive engineer as of right now and have been for the last six years.  I didn't start out that way on the railroad when I first started working in the railroad industry, I started out in Mechanical's corporate offices.  I was the first female manager to work among men at that level.  My job there was to take the old antiquated ways of paper and put everything electronic, I created databases, systems, even a handheld device for inspections.  I will be honest out of all the departments I have worked here, this was by far, my favorite.  I learned a lot from the men I worked with.  Before starting this job, I had always worked private sector, so this was very new to me, and I knew nothing about transportation, nothing about trains, I did, however, know a lot about databases, systems, just about any software you could throw at me, as well as business processes.  So com...