Network Rail reviews

The work is highly responsible, very structured and often drearily routine. This requires conscious self-management of your attention levels. Sometimes days pass with nothing but steady routine events and are low stress. Other days may require fast emergency responses in potentially life and death situations, complex rules knowledge and are high stress. Days like these are not for the faint hearted. Signallers have, very rarely, been charged with manslaughter, where their actions have been wilfully or very seriously negligent. So this job is not for lazy and irresponsible people. Responsibility, assertive communication, a logical approach, self management - maturity and a sense of duty are needed to succeed in this role.

Bullying, abuse and threat to jobs is a daily constant not only from management, but also from other staff. Bullying is encouraged and endorsed by management. To use your own initiative to solve problems and to get the job down is frowned upon to the point where you're punished by management and then bullied as a reminder for using your initiative. The culture of the company endorses Everyman for him(her) self and "the boys club" is rife. The glossy overlay of culture and diversity is a rouse and if anyone complains, again, bullying and abuse is enforced. I'm almost 50 years old; however, it's the same as being back in secondary school with the gangs of the mean girls and the gangs of the bully boys, except there is no authority figures to keep the bullies in line.