CSX Reviews

Pros

--lots of opportunity to learn new skills
--lots of work for those willing to work - if you want to achieve, you will get support
--great people to work with - great team!
--yearly bonus
--flexibility in work schedule and ability to telecommute

Cons

--Politics (same problem with any big company)
--reward/recognition is sometimes ignored (not even a pat on the back)
--hard-workers are rewarded with more work

Pros

Fortune 500
Fairly stable
Prestige of big company

Cons

Opportunities for advancement within are not good
Stable almost to the point of stagnation
Not all senior level management behave like people make the difference.

Advice to Senior Management

Mr Ward does a great job leading by example. I think the entire rank & file respects and trusts him. However, some of the management team need to learn how to lead by example and treat employees as part of a TEAM rather than treating them with condescion.

Pros

Pay, benefits, education opportunity, diversity

Cons

If you retired after 2003, the company executives decided to stick our insurance premiums on our backs.
They failed to tell us retiring boomers that once a $15,000 ceiling was crossed (per family) we'd carry the burden of our insurance cost. We were never told this during our retirement seminars. Even those who retired in the summer of 2011 were not told. Our insurance premiums increased by 94% for 2012. This had the effect of wiping out our management pensions. That's the appreciation we received for acheiving the position of management. Forty years as an employee and twenty as management. That's a big thanks. A multi billion dollar industry is just too cheap to help us for five years until we reach medicare age. CSX never adjusted the ceiling they set in 2003, how's that for planning?

Advice to Senior Management

Think about how youer decisions are going to effect the people who were your loyal employees and did all of your dirty work. What's $1100.00 a month for insurance for someone making six and seven figures plus stock options and huge bonuses?

Pros

Decent pay - health benefits - railroad retirement

Cons

Long hours - Time away from family - no respect from management - hassled every time you need a day off - csx believes that the rr is more important than your family.

Advice to Senior Management

Get a life and get out of the weeds. Stop hiring fresh college grads for management they just screw everything up. Over my time with csx I have seen hundreds of these idiots come and go. They always come in and think they are "going to "change" things around here", all they do is screw the place up until csx decides to fire them or move them. Start taking your TM's and other management from operating crafts and you will find that things run much more smoothly.

Pros

Great pay. Great culture. Great company. Future growth expected.

Cons

Very stiff competition with other seeking employment opportunities.

Advice to Senior Management

Keep on doing what you're doing. And hire me full time!

Pros

Csx is a leader in the transportation industry. I am well paid and over the years have been able to establish a very comfortable lifestyle. This is a very stable company that provides an environmantally friendly necessary service.

Cons

Long hours in the operations positions. I sense that older managers tend to be overlooked for key promotions that seem to be handed to young people with marginal experience. Also, the "good old boy " network is alive and thrives with this company. My overall impression is that Senior management want "yes men" promoted to key positions and discount mangers who are either older or not in lock step with their views..

Advice to Senior Management

Take better care of the operations managers, especially the older and more experienced individuals. Folks who have been around for 25 or 30 years do not need to be micromanaged. As General Patton so eloquently stated, " don't tell people how to do things. Tell them what needs to be done and be surprised with their results"!

Pros

Good stable company, values employee/customer, make effort to make workplace a better place, retirement benefit. Management effective and value employee/customer opinion and willing to make changes to improve.

Cons

Stressful, many of responsibilities, health benefit could be better

Pros

Everyone is very available to help and be proactive with your career. You do not feel the "corporate hierarchy" that is common at so many other companies.

Cons

It is a little behind times technology wise.

Pros

Insurance , Retirement, decent pay. it is a job

Cons

Union Officials are in CSX's pocket Not a good place if you are a minority or not related to someone. Peter Principle Poster Company

Advice to Senior Management

A takeover will have to happen to rerail this outfit. Maybe UP or BNSF can make it happen

Pros

Good benefits
Most departments are very good to work for/with
Job Security

Cons

A lot of internal empire building
In order to advance, you have to be chosen by executive management as worthy to sit at the table.
Lack of communication by executive management
If you don't fit the model of what they are looking for, life will be difficult.

Advice to Senior Management

Listen and have trust in the skills and abilities of your employees. Stop worrying and trying to copy what other RR's are doing and how they are structured.