Not Worth the Stress. Know your value. - Transportation Operations Manager Union Pacific Employee Review

1.0
Sep 13, 2017
Recommend
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Pros

The pay and benefits are great and are the only reason to consider working here. However, if you look around, you'll find other companies offer similar if not better compensation and work-life balance.

Cons

A poor work-life balance, unprofessional senior management who often resort to swearing and threats towards others, corrupted management politics, nepotism, and a genuine lack of real leadership are just a few of the issues that contribute to Union Pacific's toxic culture. I've witnessed my management peers lie during investigations, blatantly falsify information, intimidate employees, cover up sexual harassment, retaliate against employees for reporting unsafe work conditions, and misreport injury and safety incident numbers to the company's senior leadership; all of which are against company policy and are likely illegal. Outside of the headquarters, most people are unhappy with the direction of the business but remain because they lack the education and skills to go somewhere better. Avoid at all costs; there are much better places to work.

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Great flexibility and opportunity to move around within the company

Cons

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3.0
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Pros

Good benefits Work about every other day Pay has potential to be good

Cons

New hires do 100% of the work for 80% of the pay and won’t get fully compensated for the first 4 years. They are also expected to know every transportation job on site rather than focusing on one area like guys who have been here longer so 20% less pay but required to know more, do more, have to wear orange hats for a full year allowing management to easily identify them on camera or in person so they can watch them more closely hoping to catch them breaking a rule. So less pay but a more stressful work place requiring you to know more and get singled out hoping to catch them in a mistake. There is absolutely zero work life balance. Coming from a place where I had 20 plus years and able to hold a decent amount of PTO to getting a single day of paid vacation the first year and trying to balance a family life while also trying to provide for them is impossible. You sacrifice seeing your children grow up, play sports, go on vacations with them so you can provide for them. By the time you have enough years in to take a vacation with them they are grown and you missed the most important years of their lives. I know this as a child of a railroader and now as a parent who’s children barely get to see him.

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