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Originally Posted by vreihen16
That reminds me of a railroad accident that happened back in the 1970's. The railroad wanted the yard switcher crews to work until quitting time, and then bring the locomotives back to the shed on unpaid time. One crew decided to step off their running/moving train at exactly quitting time, which resulted in an unmanned locomotive with about a dozen freight cars in tow idling itself out of the yard, onto the mainline, and ultimately winding up at the bottom of a river because a draw bridge was open.....
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I haven't seen work to rule result in significant safety issues. I know in the places I work, even if it was quitting time, that kind of gross negligence would get them fired.