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- "Pay is good but you are paid for the on call lifestyle and selling your life way for a paycheck." (in 306 reviews)
- "4. Good retirement that will follow you to another railroad if you decide to change employers" (in 92 reviews)
Cons
- "Terrible IT management; they're afraid to commit to anything and don't trust their technical resources." (in 138 reviews)
- "The culture is terrible after years of layoffs and management ignoring employee survey results of how bad things are even though they get them every quarter." (in 25 reviews)
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Return to all Reviews- 1.0Jan 17, 2016Railroad Freight ConductorFormer Employee, more than 8 yearsCleveland, OH
Pros
Pay is not bad... Considering they are paying you for being away from home a lot. I have spent 120 hours in one week in a hotel waiting for a train to take back to home terminal, and was only home in own bed for 20 hours. Railroad retirement is the best out there hands down, considering you are paying for it out of your pay checks. The work is fairly easy considering what they ask you to do.
Cons
Management is not the best considering they actually hide in the weeds to wait for an employee to break a rule. Too many people kiss butt to management doing favors and in return mark off for 4 day weekends consistently and do not get in trouble. They added inward facing cameras in the cab to make sure employees are doing their jobs, saying they will not use the video to discipline employees. A lot of micro managing throughout the company. Too many Chiefs and not enough Indians. Hires a bunch of new hires that have left decent jobs and then furloughs them with no intentions of keeping them after furlough. Dispatchers have no clue how long it takes to walk a train in the middle of winter with 10 inches of snow on the ground and will get on the radio asking what is taking so long.
3 - 4.0Apr 25, 2022Freight ConductorCurrent Employee
Pros
-Benefits -Good Pay (Takes about 4 to 5 years to hit 100% step rate) -Pension (If you can stick it out the full 30 years)
Cons
-Schedule (You work on call unless you can hold a regular yard job which takes years of seniority to hold) -Management (Trainmasters will hide in bushes just to catch you breaking rules so they can fire you and move up the chain of command)
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