Norfolk Southern reviews about "pay"

Schedule, politics, union, and work place drama

Depending on how busy your terminal is you will work on call for maybe a few years. It’s 24/7 all weather, holidays. If you like weekends off and sleeping in or only working day shift.. don’t even bother. The company has issued a lot of dumbed down rules to accommodate what seems the younger generation can handle, then discipline the experienced guys for not doing the dumb rule.. like pointing out the window at signals. You can either do some efficient productive railroading or you can follow a checklist of rules and metrics. Can’t do both. NS is a corporation. You’re local peers And managers might care about you on some level but ultimately you are a number and necessary liability to the company. The amount of crying by grown adults about how terrible their life is because of the job but yet refuse to do anything but complain.

Disorganized Highly stressful with unrealistic expectations at times Old school culture Every group has different alignments

Long days but could be rewarding. They unfortunately moved from our city and many were forced to lose their jobs or move to a new location that was in a larger market for lower pay in those markets.

Boring, lack of good leadership

Lots of travel and they act like you sold your soul to work there

Work life balance is not great

Expected to be on-call after hours throughout the week, and rotating mandatory on-call status every other weekend. Flexibility depends on adjoining maintainers and supervisor. No work-life balance, long hours. Safety is preached, but company goes through spells of not wanting to spend on proper tools or materials. High stress environment. Liability nightmare with grade crossings.