Norfolk Southern reviews about "work life balance"

Not so great work/life balance

Management is very militant and strict.

There is no work life balance.

Potential merger incoming. Uncertainty on future.

No one seems to care about you at all. When I arrived at my location, my point of contact for my job location was nowhere to be found, EVER. His office would be vacant for most of the day. You call him? No answer. You text him? He might answer hours later. With the few conversations I had with him over the phone, he would just let me come into work and leave work whenever I wanted and work whatever days I wanted. Don't get me wrong, that does sound very nice, but when you have limited time to learn everything before you are thrown into the deep end it only hurts you in the end to not spend a proficient amount of time on the job learning everything. You don't really do much in training. The most you will do is sit beside someone in the tower while they do data entry for 12 hours, along with answering a million phone calls. Then, another day you will be in the field driving in circles for 12 hours around the yard taking crews to and from their train. The work/life balance is also bad. You will work a minimum of 12 hours a day. This number can increase depending on the day. Sometimes you will be working during the day, sometimes you will be working overnight.

No work life balance and hard labor

Work life balance and extreme amount of hours with no extra pay

Work life balance is not great

On call 24/7 trainmasters are constantly trying to fire you. Horrible work life balance