Deutsche Bahn: Ein Jahr mit Bahn-Chefin Palla – die Frau, die nichts verspricht
Mit Evelyn Palla als Chefin hat die Bahn nach Jahren das erste Mal wieder schwarze Zahlen geschrieben. Doch bei der Pünktlichkeit ist die Bilanz ernüchternd. Der Druck aus der Politik nimmt zu.
In mid-July, Evelyn Palla, the new head of Deutsche Bahn, stands in a black security uniform in the ICE factory in Leipzig, watching the flashing screens in the office of the management. Beside her, a colleague from the operations management. For 41 years, he has been preparing to drive himself, claims the man. Palla, the first female railway chief, also has a train driver's license.
Many of the employees she meets outside the Berlin tower tower were once train conductors. This is an ideal icebreaker. However, the conversation with the employees often wanders because the job that Palla, 53, has had for a year since October, brings a lot of criticism. Even in the office of the operations management, a more unified IT landscape is desired, and it is requested not to do any work with Excel.
Palla listens patiently to the criticism. "We will take care of it," she says, refusing to make empty promises. "We need time," Palla says. A year has passed since Palla took the helm of the needily rehabilitated Deutsche Bahn, and enough time for the first changes, say not only employees and employees of the railway. Increasingly impatient are millions of train passengers and politicians.
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