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Enough was Enough - General Foreman Norfolk Southern Employee Review

2.0
Aug 19, 2021
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Pros

The people I worked with. We were all in the mess together and it really did feel like family.

Cons

The pay is nowhere near on par with other industries expecting a lot less of your life. The hours are borderline illegal and unsafe for managers in the field. Work / life balance is talked about a lot here. For field supervisors it simply doesn’t exist. Period. Weeks and months at a time with no days off and cancelled vacations you’ve earned. Mid to upper level ma cement being COMPLETELY out of touch with the reality in the field. Getting verbal and written counseling for not handing out more discipline to your workforce.

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Cons

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Pros

Depending on the team you are in, it can be very flexible, and you’ll be working with nice people.

Cons

HR needs to step in more, they are supposed to set a precedent yet it seems like the higher ups in different departments actually set the expectations. Which can be toxic, and some managers clearly don’t know how to manage teams. HR seems to be a nice and fun department, but the rest of the company has lackluster reviews. Also, stop advertising a total rewards package to new hires when you need to work over fiver years to get some benefits and due to the merger they won’t actually get that package. Just raise your base salaries.

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