CN reviews

Work/Life balance (in the current structure this is nearly non existent) Incredibly poisonous work environment Fear driven work environment Total and complete disregard for employee safety (forced to go on trains when you've informed them you have been up for over 24 hours and are too tired to go, forced to take trains that are too heavy for your locomotives over unfamiliar territory etc.) Very aggressive management (who will threaten/scream/insult/use every profane word in the book to get what they want out of you. This is a daily occurrence) Inexperienced management Go to work exhausted often (if you don't you are threatened with discipline/termination) Spend days away from home (1-2 max) No schedule/On call work (could be like that for entirety of career) New employee retention rate (I believe it sits at about 10%)

****Please note that I'm not a disgruntled employee. This is an objective review that I reflected upon and that is true to my experience and observations. Employees living in constant fear of losing their jobs in yet another workforce reduction. Administrative employees working long hours, especially during the time of WFH, and doing extracurricular 'optional' activities completely unrelated to their work, just in hopes to keep their employment. The company, under the rule of JJ Ruest, was a ruthless bottom-line oriented machine that would let people go in constant kneejerk workforce reductions in response to the slightest sight of possible economic trouble. Administrative layer keeps getting reduced, work is being redistributed to those who are allowed to keep their jobs, frustration and internal power games to hold on to jobs make this an unhealthy environment.