Worst Employer for a Reason - MYO Union Pacific Employee Review

1.0
Oct 3, 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Good company name due to age.

Cons

Hours: scheduled 5, 12 hours days for managers turn into 7, 16 hour days or longer. Pay: Pay does not equal the hours worked. They fail to inform non-agreement staff the amount of Railroad retirement that will be taken from you check. Managers are paid ONCE a month. Benefits: The worst health insurance I have ever had. Fortune 200 company and this is what you negotiated for us? A single person $5800 deductible and the 80/20. The physicians list is terrible and the cost alone for the insurance is a slap in the face. Culture The profanity and unrealistic expectations from disengaged senior managers. The constant blame game when 95% of the issues are truly beyond the control of the field team. The total lack of reality from Omaha Crystal Palace and what happens in the field. Constant fear of stability, being treated like nothing more than a number. Cooperate Greed TOTAL LACK of any ethical standard to employees or customers.

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Pros

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Cons

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3.0
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Pros

Good benefits Work about every other day Pay has potential to be good

Cons

New hires do 100% of the work for 80% of the pay and won’t get fully compensated for the first 4 years. They are also expected to know every transportation job on site rather than focusing on one area like guys who have been here longer so 20% less pay but required to know more, do more, have to wear orange hats for a full year allowing management to easily identify them on camera or in person so they can watch them more closely hoping to catch them breaking a rule. So less pay but a more stressful work place requiring you to know more and get singled out hoping to catch them in a mistake. There is absolutely zero work life balance. Coming from a place where I had 20 plus years and able to hold a decent amount of PTO to getting a single day of paid vacation the first year and trying to balance a family life while also trying to provide for them is impossible. You sacrifice seeing your children grow up, play sports, go on vacations with them so you can provide for them. By the time you have enough years in to take a vacation with them they are grown and you missed the most important years of their lives. I know this as a child of a railroader and now as a parent who’s children barely get to see him.

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