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Forbes names CSX one of America’s best employers
Don’t make me laugh. Did they poll the rank and file or just the suits in Jacksonville? If a work schedule that makes sleep, family time, and a healthy lifestyle almost impossible makes the best employer I’d hate to see the worst. Not to mention the GREAT!!! absence policy, mile thick rule book, and management that wants to fire you at every turn. Sure the pay is good but I remember CSX and really all railroads having trouble finding enough people. I would think one of Americas best employers would have people knocking down the door to work there.
Derek,
You write…“a work schedule that makes sleep, family time and a healthy lifestyle almost impossible”…
Consider yourself among the most blessed of railroaders for having a “schedule.”
Ours, when I retired from UP a decade ago, was no schedule. The requirement was to be on duty or available to call to duty, except during your annual vacation days, at any time during any day, all 24 hours of any day, 7 days of every week in all of the next years.
A schedule…assigned hours of service, perhaps time when by union agreement, that you would not be called…yes, we could “tie up for rest” 8, 10 or 12 hours.
About a month before I retired, my officer boss criticized me, informing me that my availability for calls and duty was 85.3 percent and the UP standard was 93.7 percent.
My retirement plans lit off the afterburners!!! ,
I have to agree with Derek on this. I know several CSX railroaders and none of them are happy about thier company. The Fortune 500 company I used to work for had the same people take the surveys all the time so the company would get the results they wanted. I guess Forbes should preface it with #imho.