BNSF Railway reviews

The pay is well below average for blue collar work. The "trades" pay significantly more. You will have no schedule. You will not have most weekends off. You will not have holidays off. In fact, you are NOT allowed to take holidays off. You get in trouble if you take a holiday, like Christmas off, to spend with your family. BNSF never pays true overtime, at all, for any job. Some reviews on here, say you will get paid overtime, for some (yard) jobs, if you work more than 8 hours, but they're wrong. They aren't getting paid overtime. Those people just haven't done the math yet. You will spend 20 years of your life, trying to get enough seniority, to have some sort of schedule. You will spend 30 years of your life, trying to get enough seniority, to have weekends off, but you'll get fired before then anyway....

Every year our time off gets worse. Expected to do more with less. Every contract we vote down and it gets shoved down our throat through arbitration. We used to be able to move into management but that is next to near impossible anymore. Billion dollar company doesn’t 401k. One man crews are coming in a couple years.