CSX reviews about "time"

Field management operates as though as in functional silos, often ignoring or being aware of the big picture while focusing on maintaining/salvaging the numbers. Office politics remind me of high school cliches, complete with cliques and factions. Promotion opportunities are often political in nature, i.e. chosen ones get interviewed as a formality while other candidates' time is wasted as filler to say they went through the proper process.

While in the training program for Conductor and engineer we were told by upper level management (System Road Foreman) that there are pay problems.Trainees don't get paid for weeks at a time. Its a known problem in CSX. You can complete everything on your end of submitting your pay and making sure its correct and still your pay would be messed up. I was helping people to fix there pay, because the managers don't know how. And still I didn't get paid because my salary because of how horrible there system is. After not being paid for 3 weeks and complaining to management multiple times about the problem I finally quit CSX and found another job. I was there for 3 years.

- Pay isn't as great when you look at cities with similar cost of living. - The demand long hours, and vacation time is slow to accrue. - They value people who have worked in the field the highest, even if they don't know how to manage people. - They say they like diversity, but it depends. If you are female or African American, then they will do their best to make you feel welcome. If you are Indian or Asian, you should probably look for another company (and another city).

If you have a position that is 100% travel limited vacation time

Corporate culture is always a challenge, navigating the politics. Overtime is expected to be worked without compensation, though some managers make efforts to provide balancing time off for their people. There is no clear promotion path for many positions, and this encourages employees to move and take new a new job in a different department in order to advance. Bonus distribution is not as objective as I would like, and requires immediate management to negotiate the money for their direct reports.

While many other jobs within CSX will have structured hours and time off. Freight conductor is not one of them. DO NOT expect to know when you will have time off. When it comes, expect using time to get much needed rest. Time between trips is spent resting catching up from last trip and getting ready for next. After mandatory 10 hour rest, wait for next call. Call could come immediately or a day later. Makes it very hard to plan day/sleep patterns to arrive for next trip bright eyed and bushy tailed. Safety stressed but many find it confusing when standards are broken by management to get job done but then enforced when convenient. Very poor Union vs Management environment.

time and personal life is at minimum to none at all.

Ever-changing schedule and shift-work for newer employees (and those with low seniority) - evenings, nights, weekends, and holidays. Stressful job - comparable to an air-traffic-controller, but still much different. Have had many former ATC's claim that there are significantly more variables to consider when compared with train dispatching: fuel, tonnage, train length, outside temperature, track conditions, speed restrictions, signal and grade crossing issues, hours of service, physical characteristics, track maintenance and congestion, too many trains on line-of-road to be adequately handled, and no room in the respective rail yards, until other trains depart ahead. Some have left to pursue ATC. Others (non-ATC) have left to pursue other opportunities (internal and external). This job is not for everyone.