conductor

laborer

repair technician

mechanic

signal maintainer

Genesee & Wyoming Inc.

Unsafe and hostile work environment. Management preaches safety but in return employees disregard safety in order to "complete" the job. There is no standard since everyone's interpretation of the rules are different and if you work with other crews you are prone to being corrected and face criticism since the last crew told you to do it this way while this crew says it's not correct. In basic terms with employees a lot of two face and back stabbing. Training isint done by management but instead they send you to ground school for two weeks and the rest is on job training and if the employees are the ones training the new hires then it comes to no surprise that there is no standard since rules are being interpreted in a different way. Customers are demanding which in return makes management unhappy that the employees couldn't get to them on time. Have fun waiting as well, Amtrack has complete control of the line and well make you wait 3-4 hours for passenger trains and CT Rail has started so making windows is almost impossible or stressful. 

This job isint supposed to be stressful however the current staff and management are impossible to work together which makes cooperation nonexistent.

A typical involved giving safety briefing prior to giving job assignments. Communicating with the customers we serviced using work orders.
I learned that communication with everyone involved in your work area is very important based on the fact that I had more than one crew working in the same general area. It was important to know where everyone was located at any given time.
Working with the operations manager was very vital in everyday operations. The input from the operations manager allowed me to gain knowledge on how our relations with the customers was
progressing.
I had a good relationship with my co-workers. We communicated well with each other knowing that to fulfill work assignments it took team effort. 
The hardest part about the job was making sure we kept our customers satisfied.
I found enjoyment everyday. Knowing that if you demonstrate good leadership qualities and have a good ear for listening made the day more pleasant. Overall the work place was enjoyable when things worked the way you hoped.

management is pretty much none existing. they get the job and do not perform or better yet are put there and can not do it cause they do not know how or even try to learn. or corporate will play games and replace you, and not give the ones that deserve the opportunity, ones that are hands on and know the job and doing the job are not promoted or compensated but there doing the others job as well as there own. cant go to manager he is NEVER around. he will fire you before he has to keep his promise. the ones of us that have been here for a lengthy time to have the retirement are run in ground and expected to do more than we were hired for to cover other job duties NEVER compensated or acknowledge for it. and made to not want to give it our all anymore. they do not know how to motivate to customers, employees, supervisors. so corporate needs to do there job besides ask and pass it off, there job is to fix things u wld think. they know stuff but do not make an attempt to fix it. it has gotten bad in this location common sense has went out the window. its become a joke.

G&W lacks the ability to respond to changes in the business environment.  Executives at the company follow the lead of the large railroads (UP, BNSF, CSX, NS).   Tons of revenue is lost due to slow decision-making.  When decisions are made,  they are "communicated" down...which really only means an e-mail is forwarded from corporate leadership to regional leadership to local leadership who adds "This is now an expectation" without providing any reason or buy-in.   Those same decisions are never reviewed for downstream impact to safety, customers, or field employees...creating even more loss of revenue.  These guys couldn't run a train around a Christmas tree on time nor react to changes in the business environment to save their lives. Follow the leader (sheep), repeat down/forward emails from leadership without buy-in (parrot), and highlight fellow employees shortcomings for a promotion to higher level management (lap dog).   Pimp, Punt, Punch, Placate, and Pass (The 5-P's of G&W management) are the name of the game.

Company has no communication within parent company. Hiring stinks, moral is at a 0, Overall people are nice to work with but is at Refinery, pay for work is horrible they treat you like a slave and if you mess up ur fired.  Vacations is great you get 2 weeks after 90 days.  Mgt is ok but you are the slave without any kind of help always a take kind of company never a give.  They tell you one thing and it's the opposite.  Equipment is ancient and broken but if you are a brown noser this job is for you, they love a kisser here, it gives you opportunities to become supervisor of absolutely nothing with pay.  My time there of 2yrs wasn't all bad just recently STAY AWAY!!!!!! there is better jobs than this and pay the same with half back busting work.  Apply at your own risk if you do land a job which queen B will interview over the phone from Florida and if you are perfect you get a job if you have even a blemish anywhere in your life forget about it.  GOOD LUCK

What is the best part of working at the company?
Not bothered when you leave. I would never work in Customer Service and would look very hard at working any position. Pay lower than other railroads. Dark dingy office.

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Continuous change in standards. Ask for something in writing and it isn't given. They make up reasons to let you go.

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Terrible. Management has god complex. Corporate headquarters in Connecticut and they act like God when coming to the office.

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
They expect you to show up early and don't give you credit and time you if you are away from the desk too long and threaten you but then claim they aren't keeping track of the time. Will put nothing in writing. Need a union but they fired group in company that voted for union representation.

Loved what I did, but hated so much else. Company doesn't want to maintain anything unless it's broken to the point it won't run, or they're fined, or threatened with a fine to get it taken care of. The management is atrocious. Little to no cross communication between territory managers, between managers and crews, between departments ect. Daily job planning is a shoot from the hip mentality.  Recently several well experienced personnel have quit due to many of the reasons listed above. That in turn has forced the company to hire several people. With all the "new hires" it has created an extremely stressful environment for the senor employees "babysitting" and doing all the thinking of both  crew positions. The guaranteed daily rate salery, and the ability to earn overtime daily is nice,  Pay is ok, but should be better for what's considered a premium career. Most of the actual employees are good people, and enjoyable to work with. 

manger does not work-EVER. he never comes around I can count on one hand how many times I have seen the manager this YEAR, yes this year. and the times I have seen the manager they were telling lies or firing someone or they expect you to do others job and your own but they will take credit. they will not promote or compensate current employees. they rather argue and accuse than motivate. the corporate people that above manager say a lot but do nothing know a lot but fix nothing. there pay doesn't fix there job duties specially manager. hours are unreal for employees. the ones that are to work to help do not. supervisors can only do so much. most of us are looking for more stable employment even though we have put in a lot of years. MAINLY MANAGMENT THINKS EMPLOYEES ARE HAPPY. REALY! IT HAS GOTTEN BAD ON THE ONES THAT HAVE TO ACTUALLY WORK.

Many good people at the railroad. Enjoyed working with my coworkers, all except management.  They break rules all the time and don't keep up with things until they know there bosses will be coming around then they rush around and clean everything up. I form the staff that the white hats will be around so, don't break the rules and be on your best behavior instead of maintaining that as a constant. 
The work schedule during training is horrible. You get a rolling schedule. Meaning this week you will be on days from 5am to 5pm, Monday thru Friday then you'll get Saturday off.   Next week you'll work the mid shift, Monday  thru Friday 9am to 9pm, with Saturday offovernights Sunday through Thursday, 9pm to 9am and then you'll get Friday, Saturday, and Sunday off.

Pay may be decent as well as benefits but management at every level is deceitful and cut throat.  I've seen many examples of harassment not only to myself but to others.  -I'm talking legal action type harassment.  Management would rather have employees with little to no experience so that your expertise can't be taken into appropriate action with positive results.  They want a blank slate to "mold"you into their unethical ideals.  Their company statement talks about how ethical they are.  That is just to appeal to Wall Street.  I can't be serious enough when I say, "STAY AWAY!"  The pay is not worth being treated with distrust and back stabbing daily routines.

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