NO!!! You CAN'T have a day off!     The railroad practically invented the term 'on-call'. Many CSX employees do not have schedules, but are forced into working a 'list'. Most lists are on call 6 days a week, 24 hours a day, and often the employee cannot even choose their day off. It is common to be called to work during an assigned day off.     Unscheduled days off are usually not granted for family or religious obligations. There are many CSX employees who have been unable to attend their childrens' birthday parties, their wedding anniversaries, and even funerals because they were not allowed time off.     We've even heard of people who had to call out sick, to attend their own wedding! We're sure that some of these stories that can top even that one...

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Name: RRJ
E-mail: 
Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years
Posted: 15 June 2010

new dude

Oldheads knew what it was like when the railroad wasn't in the shape
it's in. They've earned the right to say "it's bad". We've seen a
lot of changes very few have been positive. They are having just as hard
of a time adjusting to the constant barrage of rule changes and
intimidation as those who are barely vested or just hiring out.
Oldheads know their limitations on how far they can push management
that comes with experience. Most are vested they'll stay their time is
short. Study that rule book stay on top of things that is the best one
can do. Use the rules to your advantage. It's not that easy one day if
it hasn't happened already a trainmaster will order you to violate a
rule. Best advise get a witness write the info down on paper
date/time/TM name ect...then the witness and you sign it. It's for
your protection.

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Name: New dude E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for Less than 1 year Posted: 15 June 2010 ladies and gentlemen, I am new to CSX and based on what i have read this company sucks, but only because management interprets the rule book one way and the union guys another. Granted i think management uses intimidation and will not hesitate to fire someone even without due process but call me new but as long as i follow the rules i will not have a problem. I am sure the day i get fired my opinion will change, but luckily I am trying to get as familiar with the rules book as possible so they can't find a bullshit reason. Also i keep hearing oldheads saying how bad it is, well maybe they need to work outside of the RR and they will see it sucks everywhere. Good luck finding a job that has good retirement like the RR, because this day in age 401K isn't worth dick. Also just for the record....BANNERS are to me harassment. Does management have anything else better to do? Thank God we passed this idiotic test with flying colors. View This Article

Name: Dr Ruth E-mail: Employed as: Train Master/ supervisor, for 1-10 years Posted: 15 June 2010 C&O Joe: Sounds like to me you may be the one that needs laid. Maybe you and Wes could do each other since you both seem to be experts on who needs fucked. View This Article

Name: Mongo E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 12 June 2010 I just put in apps for Batlimore, Cumberland and Richmond VA. Granted if Im lucky to get interviewed and hired. Does anyone know what these terminals are like? I see good and bad comments at this site so I figure someone here can hopefully give me a straight answer. I live in PA and applied for openings in VA and MD.....what are the odds of getting hired? Does it matter that Im willing to relocate or am I SOL since I live in PA and would have to move myself down to near the terminal that I would hopefully luckly get hired at. Any advice on the interviews and what not would be of great help. View This Article

Name: Det. Munch E-mail: blowme@yahho.com Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years Posted: 10 June 2010 The mechanical department has steadily slid into craptitude. The final blow was the appointment of Gary Bethel as VP-Mechanical. At the time of the appointment, a short-line was advertising for the very same position. Bethel did not qualify for the job. Now, how did he qualify for the job on a class 1 railroad? As long as this board of directors continues to smile and giggle as Ward blows smoke up their stovepipe, it will continue to suck. These morons spend alot of time writing people up instead of training them, and it is pathetic. And hiring trainmasters off the street without training them in the jobs they are actually supervising is the height of insanity. They're all company drones. If they don't see it on the monthly video, they don't know it at all. How these guys pass their pods is beyond me. View This Article

Name: RRJ E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 08 June 2010 LE 1-10 It's not CSX fault if you feel you're under paid. No one forced anyone to vote for the BLET/CSX SSA. You can't cry over spilled milk now. That's the problem with this generation they can't see beyond their faces. It'll get worse as the years go on with stagnant wages. View This Article

Name: Tank E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for Less than 1 year Posted: 08 June 2010 Hey Nomo, I will bet you 100% i keep my job, why don't you go suck on the corp teet and go screw one of your train master budddies View This Article

Name: t cat E-mail: Employed as: Engine repair, for 10-20 years Posted: 08 June 2010 act stupid ,, they will never ask you to do nothing again.. thats what i found out ,, only company snitches do all the work the rest of us just lay low and collect checks! View This Article

Name: NoMo E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 08 June 2010 I'm thinkin' the Tank is talkin' tough. I doubt he is willing to give up his job. I'll bet you money he marks off. Tank shut up...you lose! View This Article

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Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 10-20 years Posted: 08 June 2010 hey tank your thinking right just take it the distance. dont give the sobs 5 min just call relief dont tell a lie like my head hurts or anything just call and walk View This Article

Name: Tank E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for Less than 1 year Posted: 08 June 2010 Friend of CSX worker, My wife is pregnant as well and i will be damned if i turn off my phone. If i am at work when she calls i will tell her to call the YM or Train Dispatcher (depending where i am working) one time. If i dont get a response in 5 minutes, my ass is off and gone. They don't want you to interferer with them making money and your outside life is at the very bottom of the list of core values View This Article

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 1-10 years Posted: 08 June 2010 CSX has the oldest fleet of engines & we are the lowest paid employees of all the class I railroads. CSX SUCKS! View This Article

Name: cjones E-mail: Employed as: Engine repair, for 1-10 years Posted: 03 June 2010 There is noone to complain to about the shape of the engines, its the management at the shops that wont let us fix the locomotives. If we write it up they get someone else to look at it and sign it off or say I didnt know what I was talking about. They are putting you and the public at risk, running locomotives with bad wheels, oil leaks and fuel leaks. I should know I work there, and have seen it. I have seen them do 92day work in the ready the field where it cant all be done, traction motor grease goes unchecked. I asked an older guy which oil to put in one of the newer EMD;s and he said he didnt know because he had never done it, meaning he just signs off the work and sends it out the door. They are suppose to be doing a complete air test on the unit when it leaves the shop, and they dont. One of the older guys said hey did you see that locomotive stop when they jogged it in here, its good no reason to check the brakes. I was forced to do an air test and I didnt know how to do it and they threatend to pull me out of service if I didnt. They thought I wouldnt be able to find anything wrong. Well I found a book with instructions and I found 60 pound main resivoir leak, it dropped 20 pounds every three minutes. Boy were they pissed that I found it, The air compressor was bad and it was blowing back through causing the leak. Now what if I didnt find that or they got someone else to do it that didnt give a crap, someone could have got killed when that compressor burnt up and it would have. I tried my best to do my job and they didnt like so they stopped assigning as much work to me. There is another guy I work with who will kill a unit if its not right and he will write up so much stuff they cant outshop, but on the other he doesnt mind fixing what he finds. He told me if your gonna write it up you better be prepared to fix it because manangement will try to punish you by making you do the work. Alot of people write up things, thinking the next shift will take care of it, but for someone kills two out of three engines a day you have to be prepared to go the distance and do the work to stick it to management. Managers get so mad when they cant make a number(meaning outshop a unit)thats all they care about, jacksonville watches the shop count and calls when they are not getting units out. Guys it is your job to take care of the locomotives, if everyone picks up there trash and just puts it in a bag and dont destroy the cabs because your pissed off at the company, turn that anger into inspecting the locomotive prior to leaving, open those engine doors and look at the fuel pumps on a GE make sure they arent leaking(fire hazard) look at the wheels, you guys have been running engines long enough to know when a wheel is out of spec. CSX doesnt care about you or the shape of the locomotive all they want is money View This Article

Name: RRJ E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 02 June 2010 Congratulations on the birth of your child. I'm glad your husband made it and I hope that he'll just get a slap on the wrist for leaving work without permission. Which it could be a major offense. If he has a clean record not much should happen. That's a tough call seeing local management doesn't dole out anything anymore they take orders from their superiors. You must realise that for your husband to leave meant shutting down that job and that is the way CSX will look at it. There are no on site replacements to do that means calling another person in which could take 2 hours or more and cause delays. To be a railroad spouse you must think like a military spouse you will act as the role of both parents most of the time. View This Article

Name: RRJ E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 01 June 2010 YM less than a year If you read beyond your blinders which keeps you ignorant I'm retired my opinion was one of good sound advise. I don't care if anyone takes my advise. CSX will continue to harrass and fire people at their will if people don't get their heads out of their arses and start thinking before making stupid moves. What's wrong with being Southern? Which again your wrong I started my railroading in Ohio then moved down south. It's funny we had more control over our jobs then you'll ever know but like most of America today the worker has lost out. Try to have a nice carreer. Being a YM isn't to pleasant of a job with TM's directing your moves which their higher ups are directing their moves which makes TM & YM nothing but goffers. That's a sad state to be in. At least I left with my pride in tact by just doing what they wanted and made plenty of $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ View This Article

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Friend or family of employee, for 1-10 years Posted: 01 June 2010 So I am a spouse of an Employee...I went into labor and called my spouse/employee to let them know that their child was coming and soon. Said employee worked over an hour away from home. Said employee advised me the only reason their phone was answered was because they were on lunch and I had to call yard master to contact them or they would suffer serious consequences for answering phone, even while on lunch time. I called yard master and explained situation and asked yard master to radio my spouse ASAP because baby is coming and I am heading to hospital...10 minutes...20 minutes...25 minutes and employee calls me back saying WTF did you call yard master to contact me?...YES I called yard master and said please contact my husband and let him know his baby is coming...had to call yard master again...long story short...spouse had to run off job without yard master permission to be at the hospital for birth of first child...was written up as "calling off on duty" to be home in time for part of their child's birth. The yard master never informed employee of spouses call even though i personally spoke to yard master 2x's. Talk about core values. View This Article

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Yard Master, for Less than 1 year Posted: 01 June 2010 to RRJ: Although you may be a traimaster or just a southern 'company man' type...we all have to get what we can get these days...but this whole adapt crap...i guess if csx wanted you to eat turds every shift, you'd be more than happy to 'adapt'...that's just a load of crap...AMERICANS worked and fought hard to have a more-than-mexican existence...but then again, you 'adapt' like a cockroach to an any circumstance or condition...cockroaches get squashed in the end... dont listen to this company-man crap...fight the power every day in every way!!! View This Article

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Name: screw csx E-mail: screwcsx@gofockyourself.com Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 31 May 2010 just wanted to say Happy Memorial Day to all Union brothers and sisters. As far as CSX goes, YEP, YOU STILL SUCK!!! Enjoy and happy drinking!!! View This Article

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Yard Master, for 20-30 years Posted: 31 May 2010 Angie Smith vs. CSX case goes to court in Danville 0900 Tuesday June 1st. Anyone in the area may want to see this show. Come to the court house and see all your favorite Characters....Frulla, Vierling, Fleenor, Wes Knick, Randy Hall, Terry Schray and last but not least a special guest appearance by no other than Gery Williams. Guaranteed to have more dirt and scandal out in public than an Jerry Springer episode. View This Article

Name: Freddie Krueger E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 10-20 years Posted: 30 May 2010 It's not like working for the Nazis, the Nazis were run better. View This Article