Things aren't as good as they seem - IT Department Union Pacific Employee Review

2.0
Feb 5, 2010
Recommend
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Pros

For the young, healthy and single, the insurance benefits are good. A few managers are open-minded and progressive. There is a chance for annual bonuses. They try to cut costs in other ways before cutting personnel. They promote from within.

Cons

They reorganize way too often. The board of directors doesn't understand the impact bonuses have on employees. They recently met just days before the promised bonuses were to be dispersed and decided to cut the funding in half. This was a HUGE disappointment and now we are waiting to find out what they will actually be after initially being told they would be 50-75% of the previous year. If you have a chronic illness, have kids, or if anyone in your family requires meds for mental health issues, you do not want to work here -- the insurance will eat you alive. They promote from within, but sometimes they promote people who do not have the necessary expertise, just to promote internally. Their managers state outright that they expect salaried employees to put in significant overtime. They don't care that much about family situations.

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Cons

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Pros

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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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