Don’t walk, run away. - Conductor BNSF Railway Employee Review

1.0
Aug 14, 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

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Cons

The company literally says you (train crew) make too much money. To be called for a train with up to no advance heads-up. An example. 0001hrs You can be 10th in line for a freight train showing a planned onduty time of 1201. Cool. Plenty of time of sleep and get some chores done. You look away from the app that shows you this for 15min and your phone is ringing to be to work in 90min. It would be more tolerable if the company at least faked caring about you. They don’t. Making investors happy by skinning off as much company cost as they can (even when it directly hurts the customer and labor employees) to squeeze every penny out for its stockholders. Not that the effort to make investors want to invest is a bad thing. But when you repeatedly are kicking your labor and customers in the corn nuts, while having record breaking profits nearly every single quarter for the last 12 years, with annual PROFIT into the billions. Just to be clear. This is after all of the bills are paid. I’ve worn a lot of hats, A few that were very hard labor. This company and its attitude towards its employees is the worst I’ve ever seen. By far. Unless the company does a 180 on its mission, I would not advise give these glutinous swine your time.

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Pros

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Cons

The organization can be very hierarchical, which sometimes makes it difficult to drive change or move quickly. Decisions often require multiple layers of approval, so it can take longer than expected to finalize direction or make progress. There is also limited flexibility compared to what many other companies offer, especially when it comes to working arrangements.

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