Union Pacific reviews

When the position says you will be working 24/7/365 days a year it literally translates to holidays don’t exist and trying to get vacation for these days might not be possible because only so many managers can be off at a time. In mechanical you may work an 8-10 hour day but it usually means working 12-13 hours if you are covering for somebody else because they are on vacation which is very frequent at this time. The current schedule is a 5/2 or an 11/3. Yes, this could mean 11 days in a row working over 12 hours a day. Transportation works this frequently. Transportation usually runs a 12-13 hour a day. Many more hours than other companies. Vacation is now 3 weeks for starting out (similar to many companies now) but with no holidays unless they randomly fall on your rest days you are pretty much missing 11 paid days off. Almost two weeks short of what other companies are paying. Being non-agreement means that when you work on a holiday you won’t be paid more and if fact you are most likely to work even longer on a holiday to make up for the other manager who requested the time off. In most companies where you have to work shift work you get paid more for weekends, nights, or holidays but you will find no fairness here. In fact currently, facilities are running schedules that all managers don’t get a full weekend. For example, if you work 1st shift you may have two weekdays for your off days. If you work 2nd shift your off days could be Friday and Saturday. Some locations have a 6-month rotation. Some don’t mind this schedule but if you are religious or desire to do things on the weekend you won’t be able to possibly attend these activities for 6 months. Sick days only pertain to you so if your spouse is in the hospital plan on taking vacation time or unpaid time off. Heavy regulation on rules so much that the workers fear of even doing work. FTX program (coaching people on rules) has great intentions but has caused a great disgruntlement in the company. The company has made policy changes and working situations which overall makes unhappy workers which makes it hard to manage people.

Senior Leadership. Cuts, cuts, cuts. Command by fear used to be the only real issue, now leadership has added demoralization by title reduction and workload increase through staff cuts. The departments that do the least work came out on top while Operations continues to take the brunt of the abuse. Morale is so low and the workloads so immense, that service has declined severely and continues to do so. MRV's are dropping $5,000 - $50,000 due to the title changes. The thankless jobs used to be well compensated, but the current structure is driving the best people away from those jobs and into positions that have better hours of service and time off.