Re: (erielack) Back to our regularly-scheduled EL program... SLUGS

[WSmith5957_@_aol.com]

Only EL slug I know was the RFE in Binghamton in the mid-60s..Sammy Miller. 
Working there was like the Bataan death march. I'd had a clean record from 
1959 to 1966 in Youngstown, Scranton, & Hoboken & all of a sudden 4 
investigations in 1 year for 'missing calls'. I thought I was losing my 
mind...was I in the wrong? I spoke to his secretary, Joyce, who had to type 
up all the hearings & she said "Oh. no, Walt, he's already had 270 hearings 
this year". I said there weren't that many days in the year yet & she told me 
"Sometimes he has 2 a day....1 in the morning & 1 in the afternoon".  At this 
point in time, my timebook showed that many of the weeks when I'd 'missed 
calls' I had actually worked 7,8, & one week 10 jobs by doubling IE working 
two 8 hour shifts in a 24 hr period. I heard that Sammy disliked the DL men, 
so this was his way of getting even (he was former ERIE.)  ME TOO. This made 
me resign in 1971 & hire out on the old Auto-Train.......good thing too 
considering what happened to the poor old EL.
Regards, Walter E. Smith

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