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Rail job???

Anonymous Mon 02 May 2022 01:36:25 No.1795326 View View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>1795346 >>1802060

Been trying to get into a railroad for a couple years now
Haven't gotten any interviews,What gives?
anywhere else i get interviews but not with a railroad,Haven't even done anything to be blackballed nor do i have any idiotic shit done that bar me from it.
any advice anons?

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 02 May 2022 03:00:08 No.1795346 Report

Quoted By: >>1795656 >>1802061

>>1795326
Railroads are contracting and essentially CN and KC Southern employees have become redundant.

a quick search on indeed shows lots of conductor trainee jobs. Know anyone in the company?

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 02 May 2022 03:03:38 No.1795348 Report

Quoted By: >>1795656

They probably have a "no fags" policy.
Sorry, OP.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 02 May 2022 14:42:44 No.1795569 Report

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if ur around little rock arkansas, union pacific are hiring

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 02 May 2022 18:32:46 No.1795624 Report

Quoted By: >>1795638 >>1795656 >>1795962 >>1796457

> The new attendance system appears arcane. Workers are allotted 30 career attendance points and docked several points for taking any days off, with points varying on the time of the week and days designated as high-impact days. Workers can get four points back after working uninterrupted for 14 days. Previously, workers were allotted five weekdays off a month and two weekend days off. Workers are continuously on call and have just over an hour to report to work when they are called in.

Do you really want to work for a railroad? Look up railroad labor issues in the US

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 02 May 2022 19:46:38 No.1795638 Report

Quoted By: >>1795656 >>1795733 >>1797716

>>1795624
What the fuck happened in the last 40 years that made it that terrible? I live right next to a train hub and always imagined myself applying if I ever decided to leave my current job but that point system and being on call 24/7 sounds awful.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 02 May 2022 20:59:40 No.1795656 Report

Quoted By: >>1795725

>>1795346
Sadly i don't anywhere the only guy i knew is dead and he was with Southern Pacific back till 92'

>>1795348
Kek

>>1795624
JFC...Let me guess unions not doing jack shit? and is that with one railroad or all?
>>1795638
My question exactly reading that.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 02 May 2022 23:43:12 No.1795725 Report

Quoted By: >>1795741

>>1795656
That's just BNFS policy for now.
Unions attempted a strike over that attendance policy but it was deemed unlawful in court so it didn't happen.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 03 May 2022 00:01:41 No.1795733 Report

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>>1795638
>What the fuck happened in the last 40 years that made it that terrible?
Drug & alcohol testing/rise of safety culture
Executives and managers who earnestly believe that tens of thousands of craft employees can do their jobs efficiently without ever getting hurt
Attendance policies
Real wages have declined

You can be a railroad worker today, but you can't really be a railroader if you know what I mean.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 03 May 2022 00:39:47 No.1795741 Report

Quoted By: >>1795757

>>1795725
Until this policy came out bnsf had the best attendance policy in the industry. I believe the other RRs already had something similar to BNSFs new policy implemented for a while

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 03 May 2022 01:17:09 No.1795757 Report

Quoted By: >>1796947 >>1797396

>>1795741
>Until this policy came out bnsf had the best attendance policy in the industry.
It really was pretty good, but people abused it left and right. I guess new executives filtered in and they'd had enough of it.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 03 May 2022 19:00:41 No.1795962 Report

Quoted By: >>1797395

>>1795624
My class 2 RR has mostly regular jobs and an extraboard with a two hour call time. Seniority still screws with you on regular jobs but you can usually avoid being on call since so many others will do it for the money

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 04 May 2022 22:10:53 No.1796457 Report

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>>1795624
More like
>labor issues in the US
At least the mostly higher income makes up somewhat for the stressful almost slavery.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 06 May 2022 05:26:24 No.1796947 Report

Quoted By: >>1797327

>>1795757
What about other companies?

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 07 May 2022 06:55:54 No.1797327 Report

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>>1796947
Apply to alaska railroad and work seasonally for several years

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 07 May 2022 11:58:38 No.1797395 Report

Quoted By: >>1797526

>>1795962
What rr is this?

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 07 May 2022 12:03:41 No.1797396 Report

Quoted By: >>1797534

>>1795757
Abused it? There was no way to abuse it. It was generous all by itself. The ones that did got discipline.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 07 May 2022 18:57:42 No.1797526 Report

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>>1797395
Alaska
Downside/upside is that you work seasonally for several years

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 07 May 2022 19:26:45 No.1797534 Report

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>>1797396
>There was no way to abuse it.
Wrong

>discipline
"Alternative handling" lol

Anonymous

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Anonymous Sun 08 May 2022 08:52:34 No.1797716 Report

Quoted By: >>1802450

>>1795638
1. "PSR" basically shrinking work crews down to a minimum.
2. Pay rates not keeping up with inflation.
3. The same shit as going on elsewhere, where the younger guys get a far more shit deal, but the company walks back its retirement ax on the boomers, who then vote "yeah, fine," to protect themselves and fuck over the Gen-X and Millennial and any Zoomers who're entering the workforce.
4. Deferred maintenance everywhere, waiting on the government to step in and give them a loan- (which I doubt will actually go into doing any maintenance, mind you- but without a federal problem, there's no federal money). Of course, small comfort to the guy driving the damn thing.
5. Lots and lots of weird shifts all over the place. Could be fun, could be not-so-fun.
6. Railroad robberies are back, on top of all the other shit- and you're facing that with a reduced crew.

Of course, this is all hearsay, but it's what I've been hearing after I got warned away from going in.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 18 May 2022 02:00:46 No.1801475 Report

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bumm

Anonymous

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Anonymous Thu 19 May 2022 19:27:34 No.1802060 Report

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>>1795326

Getting a rail job is ridiculously easy if you got a CDL A with hazmat/TWIC. I also got a forklift certification and confined space entry. Basically you do ~6 months moving pallets at a truck crossdock which is like working for a railroad but more dangerous due to the constant crush hazard. Fact is most RR equipment are airbrake-equipped combination trucks, and RRs need people licensed to operate them. Most of the time will be spent stuck in traffic on freeways going from jobsite to jobsite unless the railroad is competent enough to setup a workshop inside a caboose or MOW train.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 19 May 2022 19:30:40 No.1802061 Report

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>>1795346

Depends where you work. My state restricts UP's ability to subcontract work because we're not a right-to-work state. UP is less picky than my regional MTA, they require about ~5 years experience at UP just to get an interview. This is because they run with UP trains so the operation is setup to snipe employees from UP rather than train them in-house. Kinda dumb IMO when the job is so much easier (doing the same 10 stops every day versus doing 20 different stops every other day).

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 20 May 2022 21:09:11 No.1802450 Report

Quoted By: >>1802587

>>1797716
complete side track but they managed to export the 230? god damn feels like the pacer experiments again

Anonymous

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Anonymous Sat 21 May 2022 05:02:19 No.1802587 Report

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>>1802450
Pretty sure it's a trial run

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