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Posted on 9/10/22 at 6:51 am to Horsemeat
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Friend of a friend is hanging on by a thread at CSX - wants to see how the next few weeks goes but he's 100% fed up with them. Fella is averaging one day off at home per three weeks and is sick of being stuck in motel rooms away from his family all the time. It was about five or six years ago I was considering looking for a rail job and he bluntly told me I'd be insane to do it. Glad I took his advice.
Yeah, I interviewed for a job with CSX back in the 90s and one of the first things they said to me was if I had a wife and kids keep a picture of them with me because I would forget what they looked like and if I had a dog chain him up because he would probably try to bite me when I came home because I would be gone so long he would forget who I was.
I decided that wouldn't be for me though I'm sure some folks don't mind
Posted on 9/10/22 at 7:13 am to Mid Iowa Tiger
That article was clickbait, superficial crap.
Posted on 9/10/22 at 7:14 am to 777Tiger
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sounds like we're talking a couple of generations ago, RRs are pretty barebone, cutthroat pay and work rules these days
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Average salary
$86,718 per year
14%
Above national average
This is from Norfolk Southern.
Posted on 9/10/22 at 7:14 am to Ghostface_Killa
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This is a lie. A true railroader is one of the unhappiest people on planet earth. It’s one of the most toxic work environments known to man.
Which company did you work for?
Posted on 9/10/22 at 7:34 am to tigerinthebueche
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Which company did you work for?
I worked for KCS and UP. Now I work for the federal government. Leaving the railroad was one of the best decisions in my life.
Posted on 9/10/22 at 7:36 am to Horsemeat
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Workers haven't seen a new contract or raises since before the covid shutdown (when the rail workers were all furloughed) and just a couple of weeks ago the major companies were on the record stating that "labor does not contribute to the companies profits".
If my company did this I’d strike or quit too
Posted on 9/10/22 at 7:39 am to TimeOutdoors
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It’s just odd to me that the railroads in Europe were planning on striking at the same time. I read earlier they called it off because of the queen’s death. Was this planned to be an international strike to get more publicity?
WEF trying to hurt the middle class some more.
Feed mills rely solely on rail to get grain to make feed for fish, chicken, cattle. A prolonged strike will kill farmers, both grain and animal farms because grain won’t be shipped and animals won’t be fed
Posted on 9/10/22 at 7:40 am to BuckyCheese
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they'd banner test out in the middle of the yard at night.
What is a banner test?
Posted on 9/10/22 at 7:42 am to weadjust
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I'm good. The railroad doesn't deliver to my house
It amazes me how stupid people like you are
Posted on 9/10/22 at 7:45 am to deltaland
If they do strike and Congress orders them back, they should just ignore Congress as so many Democrats have done.
Posted on 9/10/22 at 7:46 am to deltaland
Wait, Warren Buffet the huge Dem, treats his workers like shite? I thought all the Dems were for workers.
Posted on 9/10/22 at 7:48 am to Horsemeat
Norfolk Southern?
Norfolking way this ends well.
Norfolking way this ends well.
Posted on 9/10/22 at 8:00 am to JinFL
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CSX IT worker here,
I interviewed there for an I.T. job about 10 years ago. Now glad i didnt get the position. Very interesting thread.
Posted on 9/10/22 at 8:01 am to Legba007
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not that simple, we have to stay if we want 100% of our RR retirement and benefits. It's too good once we are vested to walk away from. what most don't know, that the wife will get half of what we will draw on retirement. The unions set it up that way because we are away from home so much, it's called a widow's pension.
So it’s worth it?
That’s the point.
Posted on 9/10/22 at 8:09 am to SingleMalt1973
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Wait, Warren Buffet the huge Dem, treats his workers like shite?
My younger bro worked for them years back and yes, they were terrible.
Pay is good but conditions were poor.
Posted on 9/10/22 at 8:52 am to pankReb
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Average salary $86,718 per year 14% Above national average
That’s 14% above the average household income which is around 74K.
Posted on 9/10/22 at 9:02 am to 777Tiger
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more like the last four decades
Can probably add a couple more to that.
My Dad retired from CSX a few years ago with 47 years of service. Does he have a great pension? Yep.
Is he physically or emotionally in a good enough place to actually enjoy it? Not even close. He’s a miserable, broken down man with his only “memories” a bunch of railroad stories because he was never home. And when he was he was a full blown alcoholic in pain and pissed at the world.
This post was edited on 9/10/22 at 9:05 am
Posted on 9/10/22 at 9:10 am to SpencerRob
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Unions are basically domestic terror organizations now. They haven’t been actually helpful to anything or anyone in 60 years or more.
There are some good unions and some corrupt ones but calling them a domestic terror organization?
Posted on 9/10/22 at 9:14 am to 777Tiger
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probably heard that from dad or grandad but never really researched it huh?
quote:Found the union guy. Fkn primadonnas.
777Tiger
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