greatcats
Engineer
I like to read the employee publication, Amtrak Ink, on the Amtrak website. I just noticed tonight that it seems to have disappeared from the News and Media category. Anybody know anything about this item?
The logic was probably "cost" but I don't know that for a fact. As an employee, I rarely found anything newsworthy, mostly fluff with a majority of articles and pictures involving a 150 mile radius of Wash. DC. I did enjoy the anniversary and retirement listings...Thirdrail, do you know why it was discontinued? When a company starts communicating less with its workers, that does not seem to be a good sign.
I certainly enjoyed skimming through the anniversaries and retirements as well. It was kinda cool seeing articles with people I worked with as well, yeah. But mostly...it was just stuff that most couldn't care less about.The logic was probably "cost" but I don't know that for a fact. As an employee, I rarely found anything newsworthy, mostly fluff with a majority of articles and pictures involving a 150 mile radius of Wash. DC. I did enjoy the anniversary and retirement listings...Thirdrail, do you know why it was discontinued? When a company starts communicating less with its workers, that does not seem to be a good sign.
I certainly enjoyed skimming through the anniversaries and retirements as well. It was kinda cool seeing articles with people I worked with as well, yeah. But mostly...it was just stuff that most couldn't care less about.The logic was probably "cost" but I don't know that for a fact. As an employee, I rarely found anything newsworthy, mostly fluff with a majority of articles and pictures involving a 150 mile radius of Wash. DC. I did enjoy the anniversary and retirement listings...Thirdrail, do you know why it was discontinued? When a company starts communicating less with its workers, that does not seem to be a good sign.
I believe there's a newsletter replacement that's available online only.
And Mystic River Dragon, it wasn't used to communicate important stuff, and I believe it may have even been employee, not necessarily management run. The important stuff has to be handed to me in person.
As someone with first hand experience in such matters, an online newsletter (even a daily like we have at my agency) can be turned around in a few hours, but a multi-page print one is several days for a monthly. It doesn't take a whole lot of thinking to see that the labor costs there are....very different.I certainly enjoyed skimming through the anniversaries and retirements as well. It was kinda cool seeing articles with people I worked with as well, yeah. But mostly...it was just stuff that most couldn't care less about.The logic was probably "cost" but I don't know that for a fact. As an employee, I rarely found anything newsworthy, mostly fluff with a majority of articles and pictures involving a 150 mile radius of Wash. DC. I did enjoy the anniversary and retirement listings...Thirdrail, do you know why it was discontinued? When a company starts communicating less with its workers, that does not seem to be a good sign.
I believe there's a newsletter replacement that's available online only.
And Mystic River Dragon, it wasn't used to communicate important stuff, and I believe it may have even been employee, not necessarily management run. The important stuff has to be handed to me in person.
They actually took a poll and based upon the results, they decided to axe Amtrak Ink some time ago. However, they waited until they overhauled the intranet. As Triley mentioned, someone minor will take its place online.Thirdrail, do you know why it was discontinued? When a company starts communicating less with its workers, that does not seem to be a good sign.
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