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Name: NoMo
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Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A
Posted: 10 April 2012

CSX and the other carriers want unthinking employees that blindly follow
orders without question...now there's a model for success!!

What an insult to all Veterans.

That speaks volumes for management's thought process and will surely
stifle any innovation or foster any loyalty amongst the employees!

The Veterans should be given consideration but they are being used
by the carriers for their status and not their talents.

Sorry it took me so long to reply but I got VD from sticking my
unprotected cursor in an inviting web site. Del will never be the same!

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Name: Brendan E-mail: brendan.osweiler@yahoo.com Employed as: Friend or family of employee, for Less than 1 year Posted: 09 April 2012 I agree and as a veteran I see the preference that veterans get over other qualified individuals. Another thing people don't realize is the feds are paying big money to companies that higher veterans. Sometimes it's as much as 8K per veteran they hire. It's all about money to the companies. I was hired with Morgan Stanley based on my merits with education/experience and I just happened to be a veteran. Coming from the military, the military works hard but so do other jobs like people at CSX. The military gets free healthcare, college, etc. I think the veterans preference is excessive but that's my opinion for what it's worth. View This Article

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Employed in other capacity, for 20-30 years Posted: 09 April 2012 RRJ, Like you, Im all for our military veterans being hired after they come back from serving for our country. But I dont think a company should receive any monetary compensation unless their hearts are in the right place. A company that is out recruiting our military men and women because(It was quoted at a meeting)"They are going to make better employees because the know their place and they wont challenge or question our orders, talk back or have to be charged with insubordination when we tell them what to do even if it is a violation of their union agreement" is a company that shouldnt be allowed to even approach our military men and women.. Its discusting! Wonder what company that would be???? View This Article

Name: suzannah E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years Posted: 09 April 2012 Brendan, Thankyou for the info you posted. I had a 401k with the capital builders plan and froze it about 5 months ago. I switched to a different plan with the BLET. JP Morgan told me the same thing. Told me I couldnt roll my investment over to an IRA of my choice. Guess I need to call the securitiies commissions as well.... I have a family member checking into it now. If this is an illegal action on JP Morgans part, can you not request that an investigation be launched against them? I would think if you had enough complaints it would be warranted. View This Article

Name: E-mail: shellowe2012@yahoo.com Employed as: Friend or family of employee, for Less than 1 year Posted: 09 April 2012 ANYONE FROM ST. LOUIS OR WILLARD OHIO AREA, I NEED INFORMATION ON THE SEXUAL HARRASSMENT CHARGES ON MIKE STANLEY WHO WAS A TM IN 2011 AT BOTH AREAS. I WOULD LIKE ANY INFORMATION. I KNOW HE ABUSES COMPANY POLICIES BUT JUST NEED SOME MORE DETAILED INFO. feel free to email me View This Article

Name: E-mail: brendan.osweiler@yahoo.com Employed as: Friend or family of employee, for N/A Posted: 08 April 2012 To all here: I'm a veteran who served a tour in Iraq and applaud the veterans who work and continue to receive the GI BILL benefits. If you can convert to the Post 9/11 GI Bill there are some advantages. I know my work was hard during my 6 years of service but one thing I find is that CSX Employees deal with this every day. I've posted before I've had the pleasure of helping 2 CSX employees find their 401k plans when they had the move from Fidelity to JP Morgan because the company didn't care enough to communicate. I find that in many large organizations like the Army, CSX, the frustration level can run high. I've seen the little screen that the conductor watches to wait for his next turn in line to go back out. I told my client he won't know what to do when he retires and has a "normal" schedule. I think discourse like this room can be good but I suggest putting those ideas to work seeking positive change in your organization. Sometimes it feels like people aren't listening to you which is why unions are in place to give people a voice. Keep fighting but know that every battle isn't worth fighting. Pick and choose the battles and then fight hard and hopefully you'll win. I've personally reached out to your office explaining that I thought it was morally wrong that the company would fail to notify employees on where a retirement plan was located. What if someone died and a spouse had to try to deal with this? I'll post the response letter should I receive it. If any of you would like a resource in the area of retirement planning, drop me an e-mail. Many of you don't know that you have money sitting in your 401k plans that you can rollover to an IRA penalty free instead of the handful of investment options in the Capital Builder plan. Remember, don't try to call JP Morgan alone as you will get the run around like my client did. I got on the phone with them and said if they didn't send him his transfer form that I would call the Securities and Exchange Commission and FINRA. Find people to fight for you. All the best- Brendan J. Osweiler Financial Advisor | Global Wealth Management Morgan Stanley Smith Barney 111 Monument Circle, Suite 3100 Indianapolis, IN 46204 brendan.osweiler@mssb.com View This Article

Name: RRJ E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 07 April 2012 NoMo The only point I was making CSX shouldn't be singled out when these programs are available to all employers. Why not take advantage. Other railroad sites there have been hostile discussions of non-veterans complaining that railroads prefer veterans. Then you get the veteran wondering why he hasn't been hired if this is going on. I don't have an answer. lol. Do I think veterans should have a higher priority? Yes, I do. They sacrificed to serve their country. I already knew that veterans hiring on the railroad could apply for their GI Bill benefits while in training. Several talked about it. Good for them if they're entitled go for it. In my opinion it's a good thing not something to critise an employer like CSX, NS. UP, BNSF ect....if one is doing it they all are. CSX is a difficult place to work these days. The smart people go with flow opening their pockets use it to their advantage and make money. I heard the complaints last wendsday at the union meeting. I also heard them laugh at how much money in OT ect....they're making. All by having to follow instructions from the morons running the show at the terminals. View This Article

Name: NoMo E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 07 April 2012 Hey RRJ: You might also surprised to know that the Feds give employers big tax credits for hiring ex cons. Next time your in a body, brake, muffler or tire shop take a look around. I'm sure they hire them in other operation, but these seem to be favorites...probably because they are sub chapter S corps. View This Article

Name: RRJ E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 07 April 2012 RRJ I forgot one more issue. You stated I'm taking CSX's side. Not so. I'm trying to get people to think on their own. Use inititive. I didn't consider myself a CSX employee. I wasn't alone on that one those of us that hired on from the predecessor railroads like the C&O, SCL, L&N, B&O, RF&P, WM ect...still felt like we belong to those railroads. With prior rights we still had/have that seniority. Even back then they put a person through the ringer especially during promotions to see if a person could withstand the pressure. It's a job that requires making decisions. I had conductors that couldn't make decisions. It still goes on today. If they hit a snag no matter what time of day or night they would call the TM. I gave them advice with over 30 years you'ld think they would take it. Instead they called the TM who had only been on the railroad 2-3 years. Which he didn't know his arse from a hole in the ground. I went to the union meeting this week ask about it, it still goes on. It's troubling to think some people have a false sense that management is their friend. They never have been there's always been a line drawn between us and them that should never be crossed. No, I don't take CSX's side. View This Article

Name: RRJ E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 07 April 2012 Cond 1-10 Everything is a grey area concerning cell phones. Then one has to contend with local managements interpetation. Which anyone that been on the railroad for a while knows all of them have different opinions. Did that experiment a few times by asking the same question to two TM's and a RFE with different results. How can anyone understand it when they don't have their schidt together? Still the original post they should of took the locomotive out of service. As for giving hand signals it didn't take 5 people we use do it by ourselves in yard jobs, locals, set offs/pick ups ect...The only time 2 or 3 people were needed was long cuts like doubling tracks. Before I retired 2 years ago there were only a handful that knew how to give them correctly. Rules use to state hand signals will be used while in sight of the headend. Not to many people did it. As for the hiring of veterans my research yesterday did find employers can get some funding for training expenses. All employers not just CSX. You put a number to it. Don't know where you got it? I got my info from government sites and veteran organizations. Hiring a veteran is good. They'll be a lot more looking for work in the next couple of years when Afghanistan winds down. I'm all for hiring veterans. That's how I got hired out being a Vietnam veteran. In those days that was difficult seeing railroads usually hired family members. I worked with people who were 3rd & 4th generation railroad. View This Article

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 06 April 2012 RRJ Sorry but your wrong. Cell phones can be used to perform duty if you have lost radio communications and you need to contact the dispatcher or if there is no other way for the crew members to talk to each other. An engineer can use his cell phone to call the mechanical desk if he needs to attend to the engine outside of the cab and is being told to work on something. Hand signals were fine when you had 5 people on a crew. They could pass the signals up. Dont work that way anymore. 2 man crew doesnt allow that if you are 100 cars away and cant be seen. You sure have been doing alot of standing up for the company lately..... csx gets 60,0000 for vets. Paid to train them and cover their first year salary.. New guys off the street with no military background bring them 9,000. View This Article

Name: RRJ E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 06 April 2012 Whatever happened to hand signals? When I hired out there weren't radios. You had to improvise. If there was a defective radio on the locomotive then report it then take it out of service. Seems someone wasn't doing their job. Did you talk to the TM? YM don't give a crap they just want the work done. Cell phones can't be used not in the performance of ones duties. When ya'll going to grow a set and stand up for yourselves. The locomotive would of been shopped the first day if I was working. I shopped many took them out of service. I stole many radios off other locomotives in road consist from trailing units. If it fit it was mine. That improvising that's taking control. View This Article

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 10-20 years Posted: 06 April 2012 I worked for CSX for 13 years. One day our engine radio went out you could not talk with the engineer over 5 car lenghts away while switching. We notified the office for about a week daily reminding them, they told us to keep using the engine. So we did and one day I got caught talking on cell phone (calling our office) to let them know about some cars we had tp pick up. Since engine had no radio working distance I left company cell with the engineer in case he and the brakeman needed it, and I got busted and fired over calling our office from another yard. Its a shame on the company to act like they have. It is being before a public law board now. View This Article

Name: RRJ E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 06 April 2012 I just looked it up. There are 4 states that gives state tax breaks for hiring veterans that fall into the bracket of disabled, on food stamps, welfare, homeless, and those who have been unemployed for more than a year. On the federal side it could benefit an employer by fraying some of the training cost. No big tax breaks per veteran. In fact a lot employers are backing off hiring those in the reserves. CSX hasn't it hires veterans because they are more disciplined. There are incentives for employers to hire disabled veterans. What's wrong with it? Depends on the disability wether they get hired in T&E. I worked with people in T&E who were Vietnam disabled veterans a few were collecting a VA disability check. I never once heard them complain. It's funny how people try to make a good thing look bad. View This Article

Name: RRJ E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 06 April 2012 NoMo The FMLA was for a child. It was never mentioned if this persons medical problems were service related. It just states he was hired and apparently he served in the military. I need to look up this stuff about CSX getting federal funds for hiring veterans. Why is CSX being singled out? It would apply to all employers hiring veterans. I do know CSX has been praised for hiring veterans. What's wrong with it? You still miss the point a new hire wanting time off. That's just wrong. Apparently he missed the speech at orientation about what it takes to work on the railroad. Same speech they gave in 1977 when I hired out. Want a life forget about it. You're on call 24/7. If he hired on thinking differently then he hired on fraudulently. My advice transfer to another craft. People who work regularly are burnt out because of those shirking the system. View This Article

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Name: NoMo E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 06 April 2012 Hey RRJ and Suzannah: I don't have a dog in this fight but will make an observation. CSX get big money from the Feds for hiring and training Veterans. These men and women are returning from multiple deployments and many of them have been wounded, including traumatic brain injuries. It seems to me that common sense and decency dictates that if CSX wants the good, they have to accept the bad. If, in fact, CSX is refusing FMLA to wounded Veterans, regardless of their seniority date, CSX only wants the upside and none of the downside. There are or will be millions of Veterans returning to the work force. I would suggest the employers anticipate the issues these men and women have and act accordingly instead of treating them like cattle. I don't think it wise to back these Veteran into a corner! View This Article

Name: RRJ E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 06 April 2012 Suzannah There you go jumping to conclusions. Reread what I wrote. I suggested seeking employment in another craft. Yes, I think is unreasonable to expect FMLA to be granted then he brought up his own health issues at 7 months of employment. That would make him a new hire. I can't think of any employer that wouldn't do the same as CSX. This has nothing to do with CSX. His critising CSX as a military friendly employer was in bad taste. They gave him a job. He knew what the job entailed before hiring out. Others I'm sure have challenges in their lives. His child will have good health coverage. His wife/girlfriend/childs mother will have to step up take care of the situation if he's unavailable. Does everyone here think they are the first? What do think went on when there wasn't FMLA? I've never seen such self centered people. Why would someone take a job like the railroad if they already knew time off was required? To me that takes away a job from someone who could of hired out an worked regular. Then it puts a hardship on everyone else because now they have to cover being short handed. Just like the idiot posting on the "attendance policy" thread boosting have fun working while I'm off on FMLA riding my Harley. I went to the union meeting this week. They are short handed they have new jobs to put on but can't not enough people. They keep on hiring. Are people quitting like they use to? I don't know. Think what you want it's about time people step up to the plate an act like adults. Do the responsible thing. This isn't a freebie hand out society where employers ect...have to cater to others needs. A person gets hired out with the expectation they will do the job. Hiring out then expecting time off after 7 months? I don't get it. View This Article

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Yard Master, for 1-10 years Posted: 05 April 2012 Properly planning these days is made up of 1. cya and 2. preparing for the worst, most inefficient orders local management can come up with. Every day, the instructions become more and more harmful to the well being of CSX View This Article

Name: suzannah E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years Posted: 05 April 2012 RRJ, I cant believe you just wrote that!! ITS UNREASONABLE? Now if he hid his childs medical condition from the company because he thought it would be the only way to get a job, maybe, just maybe they might have alittle bitch to bring on, but then maybe people like him just shouldnt apply for any job if he's going to need time off to take care of his child.... Let all the tax payers support him and his child. NA! I say.... Way to go dude! Do what ever you can to get a job and support your family! View This Article

Name: RRJ E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 05 April 2012 The railroad isn't for everyone never has been. If you're already wanting time off after 7 months mabey this isn't the right occupation. Mabey you should try and transfer to another craft. I'm taking it you're a conductor. Try carmen, yardmaster, train dispatcher, track worker ect....there are other jobs. They might be more in line with a persons needs. Once you excepted employment you are held to a standard same as in the military. Hiring on an expecting FMLA or time off for health issues within 7 months is unreasonable. Using the excuse CSX is suppose to be a veteran friendly employer is puzzling. They hired you. It doesn't mean they have to cater to a person. You're barely off probation. Mabey it's the economy that keeps people around longer than they should on the railroad. It use to be 1 out of 5 would quit within the first 6 months to a year. On the positive side you have health coverage for your family. Like the military your spouse has to be the one to take care of business. View This Article