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What is the best part of working at the company?
Good place to start getting railroad experience. Most folks are good people. If you like to put in hours the money is good. 

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Management is constantly changing.  Which means company expectations and policies change too. Most times they won't tell you and you find yourself struggling to adapt to the changes. Overtime is limited and they are stingy with it when it is available. Also feels like they spend money of cameras and other devices to keep tabs on employees for "safety" but rarely give out raises when you do work safe. Promotions are rare as they hire from outside sources for management positions.

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Most people there are friendly and do look out for one another. There wasn't a single person I can personally say I had and issue with. However, top positions become really competitive and there is a lot of backstabbing. 

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
You hit the ground running at this company. There is little time put into planing a day out. Feels like everyday the second you clock in you are rushed out to the field to start working. It becomes stressful and your plan will change through the day multiple times with little time to make adjustments. Poor management leads to blocks in work flow. It is a full 12 hrs of work with only a 30 min lunch break. Granted it's paid for but it's not enough time to rest for the days the workload is heavy. Your main challenge is the weather. It will delay your job and often management doesn't care. They expect you to overcome it. It is also rare for management to lend a hand. I personally have had to work shifts on my own while they sit in the truck just watching me struggle to make moves. A positive note is that safety is a big deal and they have a good amount of rules in place to prevent accidents. If you follow them throughout your day, you can make it home without injuries or damaging equipment.

What is the best part of working at the company?
Some of the people who I worked with were good 

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Indecisiveness when it came to the work from bosses and different departments 

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Outside work on most of the jobs and most times if you’re not a good ole boy you won’t get far.

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
DuPont shift. It was good for most part because of who I worked with. If a ship was there, I read my safety report for the day and talked to the person I was relieving. Then inspected the vessel before I went on board to talk to the crew and the captain to ensure everything was safe and working well. Then every hour I would inspect the ship and talk to the crews while the ship was pumping out their oil to our tanks.

I had a great experience at the start of working for TGS. As you grow in the company, if you are lucky enough to stay employed with the amount of transitioning, you start learning the quirks of the management and the unsafe shortcuts they like to take. Some of the Supervisors in the field are amazing to work with and are keen on understanding their role in the success of the job, but most are there for a paycheck. Training is not really stressed very well at TGS and most of the contractors used don't qualify for the jobs they are tasked with. If you have to travel to different job sites, make sure you get in writing that you are to be compensated through mileage, gas, or whatever else you need to do your job because they will not compensate you otherwise. Overall, not a terrible place to work but I would not recommend it.

I enjoy my job, but at a parent of 3 and single raising them on my own. The management doesn't care what happens out side of work. They don't care what happens to you out side of work. Everything is a personal matter and when it comes to work you need to be there early or on time no matter what happens. so if your child is sick and can't go to school or daycare for a week you can count on you loosing your job. If your car breaks down on your way to work or you blow a tire... you better start running because they don't care, you better be there on time. You have problems sleeping or have any mental disabilities they don't care either its a personal issue. As far as I know no one gets raises and if you do it is rare.

What is the best part of working at the company?
Good company to work for especially starting with no experience. Very well groomed training program. 

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Last minute call offs and shortage of staff members. 

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Upbeat but responsible extending through an age gap ranging from 18-60 year old in field workers. 

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Busy from the moment you walk in to the moment you walk out.

Work-life balance
Not worth the time too fill out a Application. Trans Global Solutions is the bottom of the barrel in railroading Company.

Pay & benefits
Pay is Horrible!! NO Rises  NO cost living Rises.

Job security and advancement
You’ll be luck to get 40 hours a week .

Management
Management is Horrible as well. Communication is horrible at TGS

Overall
Just don’t waste your time here at TGS. There are better railroad  company out there. Watco is way better Company then TGS. TGS doesn’t do anything Extra for crew’s that are out in the Field doing all the work. All you get is a paycheck and the Amount of your paycheck are poor.

The  safety is a JOKE. They don’t do their job, and will lie about people breaking rules if they don’t like you. The management is also terrible, and you will get yelled at if
You try to take a small break to eat your lunch. The way they train is also terrible, my first week I kept switching crews, and each conductor had diffrent expectations. When the safety trains you, they don’t really try cause “you’ll learn in the field” but they expect you to learn everything from the safety when you go out on the field! Super unorganized.

If you want to learn how to do the railroad cool. But long term no. The job has a bunch of favoritism from management . The manager think they can do what they want and talk to employees how they want. We can never contact upper management it’s always an excuse. But honestly if upper management cared they would have more meetings. I see all these reviews say the same thing. Management yet it’s probably the same people still there from when I left. Horrible job don’t even waste your time. 

What is the best part of working at the company?
Always had me working  Monday thru Friday 
All local work 

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Never had any type of stress with the company. 

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Friendly and easy going  easy to communicate with.

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Arrive have a cup of coffee review all my invoices plan my route check my vehicle make sure all is secure, leave with plenty of time to Arrive at good time at first delivery.

Having worked for a Class 1 and going back to a different Class 1 after this miserable job, this place is the biggest joke in the industry! Yardmasters too lazy to actually teach and foster good employees, they’d rather sit in the truck and find a reason to fire rather than manage, teach, or lift a finger to mold a better switchman/conductor!!! Not to mention you’re busting your tail all day for laughable pay!!! Inspiring trainman, do yourself a favor and find some place, any place other than this, preferably a Class 1!!

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Laborer 1 salary reported	$18.00 per hour
Administrative assistant 6 salaries reported	$17.00 per hour
Project manager 3 salaries reported	$75,000 per year
Mechanic 1 salary reported	$25.00 per hour
Loader 2 salaries reported	$19.50 per hour

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