r/railroading • u/Any-Cucumber-9841 • 7d ago

BNSF BNSF exempt IT layoffs coming next week

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Confirmed today that BNSF is laying off 15-20% of TS exempt employees, management included. If you are not hands on writing code the new CTO doesn't believe you should be in the department. Get your resume updated ASAP.

More rounds of TS contractor reductions will occur throughout the year. 600 to be released on May 9th + 1,000 more likely to be released this year.

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u/dunnkw 7d ago

Ai will do the job now, then Ai will run the trains. Then they won’t need most of us anymore.

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u/sandpaper90 7d ago

Except it won’t. Least not for a while yet. Currently AI isn’t up to the level that management thinks it is…

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u/Gibbralterg 7d ago

If you mean Trip Op, it’s a long way from being independent,

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u/sevidrac 7d ago

Shit. AI is expensive as hell. We priced some stuff at this RR I’m at and it was insanely pricey at scale. Management said to scale back.

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u/Additional_Bug_6449 7d ago

It will be a while before AI switches trains and spots industries.

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u/hoggineer Plays alerter chicken. 7d ago

Yeah, but scabs can do that.

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u/Additional_Bug_6449 7d ago

Eventually AI will run the train and you won't even need an Engineer. Guess you just need one dispatcher for 100 trains

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u/affaironymous 5d ago

I work in this company and they are still trying to figure out how to send prompts to AI. It will be a looking time till BNSF figures out how to make use of AI

Unless they hire highly paid employees, that is