NO!!! You CAN'T have a day off!     The railroad practically invented the term 'on-call'. Many CSX employees do not have schedules, but are forced into working a 'list'. Most lists are on call 6 days a week, 24 hours a day, and often the employee cannot even choose their day off. It is common to be called to work during an assigned day off.     Unscheduled days off are usually not granted for family or religious obligations. There are many CSX employees who have been unable to attend their childrens' birthday parties, their wedding anniversaries, and even funerals because they were not allowed time off.     We've even heard of people who had to call out sick, to attend their own wedding! We're sure that some of these stories that can top even that one...

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Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years
Posted: 19 May 2013

Hoyer:

Are you back to playing your cowardly games again?  Who is it in
Ashtabula that you have a hard on for?  People don't get away with
anything more out there than anywhere else.  They discipline and put
people on the street just like other yards, and YOU KNOW THIS!

Grow up retard!

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Name: hoyer E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 10-20 years Posted: 18 May 2013 If anyone wants to get away with breaking rules.Try the Great Lakes Division in northeast OHIO. At CP 128 to CP 130 Ashtabula, Ohio. I have seen plenty of rule breaking violations that go on all the time.They have 1 yard job and 3 local jobs and Anything GOES!!! Cleveland,Ohio might switch tag from time to time but that's it.But if you work in Ashtabula,Ohio there are no rules there at all.It's a free for all.Guys riding tank cars on shoves,no stretching after a tie is made,getting on and off moving equipment,never doing any safety stops,they walk behind cars all the time to open up the knuckle,never asking for 3 step protection,they throw switches all day never once looking at the switch points.It's crazy and the train master there doesn't even got out and watch his employees,so he doesn't have to discipline them for what there are doing.It's all about the money out there and that yard makes a lot of MONEY.So rule breaking is OK it makes the train master look good,profit wise to CSX. If CSX would go out there and see what is really going on,that yard would be SHUT DOWN PERIOD. View This Article

Name: E-mail: Employed as: APE, for 20-30 years Posted: 06 May 2013 Hey, Conductor 30 years +, I did NOT say Master was an exclusive slave term, that was the poster below me (Phil?)that I was replying to. Master IS a very traditional term, with both positive (tradition) and negative connotations. The culture, however, is very traditional in some ways, and modern in others. For example, if you were a conductor and couldn't pass the engineer training program, you stayed a conductor or became a clerk, etc. Today you pass or are fired, and thrown out on the street. So now we watch trendy videos about work place violence. And, in other organizations such as the military, many mandatory pass programs (i.e. learning to operate and repair a M-60 m.g.) are offered in variations so people that learn in a different manner can still pass. We have adopted the worst of the new (worry about workplace violence - traditionally very rare on the RR)with the worst of the old (training is my way or the highway, graduation based on highly subjective opinion). STARS is a classic timeclock program that is viewed as highly regressive in many industries, and is new to the RR. You could go on...."own your job, take responsibility, but do NOTHING without express permission, knowing that the slightest initiative may lead to serious punishment. Even supervisors know that their ability to perform is very limited, and the focus must be on discipline, connections, and conformity. No smart boys wanted or tolerated, even if this would improve the company. And so on. View This Article

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 30+ years Posted: 02 May 2013 Ape 20-30 WTF, Master is racist? Master mechanic, Master mason, Master's degree. Don't we have real things to worry about? View This Article

Name: tsp626 E-mail: tobishan1972@gmail.com Employed as: Employed in other capacity, for 1-10 years Posted: 02 May 2013 I received my termination letter due to excessive attendance points. Yes, I did miss a lot of work in a short period, but I was very sick, had doctors notes, and the sick days. Also, my daughter was in the hospital and I was FORCED to use vacation days because of accruing points and I was told that sick days were for when the "employee" is sick and not any family members. And don't even get me started about my union representation! Haven't heard from the asshole. Six plus years of my life busting my ass and a kick right through the door. View This Article

Name: E-mail: Employed as: APE, for 20-30 years Posted: 02 May 2013 although using the word MASTER may hit some nerves, it is not exclusively a slave term. Look at old book of rules, etc. from NYC, PRR, Erie, etc. They refer to "entering upon the service of the company" and similar archaic terms closer to Downton Abby or Upstairs - Downstairs then the millenium generation. Yes, CSX is a southern company but in many respects it is an Appalachian company, very closely micro managed so any decision is high level, This is obviously a real drag on efficiency, and is coupled with a surge in female employment at high level. The problem with these high level females is that they bring the worst of non RR management traditions and combine them with the worst in traditional RR culture. And, like every RR I have ever seen, CSX is the RR of the future - and always will be. View This Article

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Name: Phil E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years Posted: 30 April 2013 Other, Non-Employee, I'm guessing from reading your post that you're a company officer, and drank the Kool-Aid from the CSX company fountain in Atlanta and Jacksonville. CSX DOES NOT have diversity outside of Jacksonville or Atlanta. The only place you'll find diversity is where Wall Street and upper management will look. CSX is a SOUTHERN COMPANY IN ALL FASCITIS. Look at the terms it continues to use in the 21st century, and that other railroads have chose NOT to use. Train MASTER, Yard MASTER, Road MASTER..... Instead of updating the terms that are used for these positions, as other railroads have done, CSX has decided to, and continues to use these antiquated terms from the Civil War, and Slave and Master era. This is the 21st century. I know this might come as a shock to some, and contrary to want Great Lakes Division's own David Harris may openly say about how the T&E field not being a job for women, today, women are in the workforce. When you read the company produced propaganda from both Jacksonville, or the local divisions, it STILL refers to its employees in the male vernacular, even though women work in the T&E field. On the Great Lakes Division is only ONE manager of African American decent, and NO FEMALE MANAGERS. Until last year Avon terminal's youngest female had 10 years seniority, and she was their only female minority. To top this off, she'd transferred in from another division. So Other, Non Employee, I've worked out of many terminals on both the Great Lakes, Nashville, and Chicago Division. I don't see women out here, (not that my wife objects to this), and I don't see to many if any minorities (afro American or Hispanic) out here. I don't know where you're working out of CSX or who you know that is, but if you ever visited terminals outside of Jacksonville's immediate view, you would find that CSX is not the utopia that CSX paints for the media and world to see. View This Article

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 29 April 2013 This is so untrue and unfair to every RR employee that ever hired on. Pure BS. Some RR hired only white males for certain jobs, and an African american could get the same job at another RR. The exact same thing happened when a white guy applied. The RR hired based on need, as they do today, however they must have diversity today and that is a problem. Simply hiring the best one that walks in the door, filling the board and things are good is not good enough.- -------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------- Contrary to what CSX may say publicly, CSX management looks at all women and minorities as a lawsuit waiting to happen. With this said, CSX DOES NOT care about you, me, or anyone else. But CSX does care about bad publicity. God Forbid anyone tarnish the image they falsely propagate to the media and Wall Street about what a wonderful company they are. I STRONGLY SUGGEST you spend the thirty dollars, join the NAACP, and file a discrimination complaint with their legal address committee. While I'm not sure what you were hoping to gain when you filed your lawsuit, I'm sure this organization might be of some assistance to you. No company wants to have their logo plastered across the front page and leading the National News with the NAACP saying THIS COMPANY DISCRIMINATES AGAINST PEOPLE OF COLOR. Please give going this route some thought, and good luck. View This Article

Name: ===Todd Novac== E-mail: ==shit bag .com== Employed as: Yard Master, for 10-20 years Posted: 28 April 2013 HE ===TODD NOVAC ==== boy the truth hurts maybe you should go back to cooking !!!!! maybe you dipped one to many times in the secret sauce !! or is that cum on you check from the train master . you have no shame showing you face at work and we know what you realy think of your fellow workers May a herd of monkeys shit on your head===== Fat boy==== View This Article

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Name: E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 26 April 2013 Joann, I decided to take the time and look up if you were real person, or a company plant on this site. I ran a google search using your name, Joann Brooks, Jacksonville, and CSX, below is one of the links that came up. http://law.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/florida/flmdce/3:2009cv00379/226328/11 It looks like your case was dismissed back in 2009. While I applaud your efforts, and am impressed that you were actually able to get the EEOC to do something, then agree you did indeed have grounds to file a suit against CSX, what are you hoping to gain now that your lawsuit has been dismissed? How will it help you, and be of benefit to those of us who agree to join and stand with you as you've asked, when your case was dismissed several years ago? I understand from reading the lawsuit you filed, you're an older african american female that worked her way up the ranks and hurt your back lifting a box of files. Have you thought about contacting your local NAACP branch and filing a discrimination complaint with their legal address committee? By filing a complaint with the NAACP's Legal Address Committee, you are a voice of many, vs a voice of one. Who out here doesn't agree, we all know, CSX DOES discriminate. Contrary to what CSX may say publicly, CSX management looks at all women and minorities as a lawsuit waiting to happen. With this said, CSX DOES NOT care about you, me, or anyone else. But CSX does care about bad publicity. God Forbid anyone tarnish the image they falsely propagate to the media and Wall Street about what a wonderful company they are. I STRONGLY SUGGEST you spend the thirty dollars, join the NAACP, and file a discrimination complaint with their legal address committee. While I'm not sure what you were hoping to gain when you filed your lawsuit, I'm sure this organization might be of some assistance to you. No company wants to have their logo plastered across the front page and leading the National News with the NAACP saying THIS COMPANY DISCRIMINATES AGAINST PEOPLE OF COLOR. Please give going this route some thought, and good luck. View This Article

Name: ===Todd Novac=== E-mail: I suck a Dick .com Employed as: Yard Master, for 10-20 years Posted: 26 April 2013 =======Todd Novac ======= updates . he has made a complant to CSX about harassment that this should be not talked about !!!!!! he claims he only barrowed the money and as a union official he was allowed to do it without breaking the law . LOOK at medina county criminal records . We should all stand up against him Fuck the company And fuck the UTU for letting him Back Fuck you ===Todd Novac View This Article

Name: ==Todd Novac== E-mail: scumbag .com Employed as: Yard Master, for 10-20 years Posted: 24 April 2013 TODD NOVAC Yardmaster at Collinwood In at Cleveland ohio . Fat fuck with a pumpkin head . stoled money from our union BLE and was found guilty !!!!!!!! and the came back as a yardmaster .It shows how weak are unions are !!!!! No one should even talk to him .what happened to employee un becomining !!!! what a piece of fat shit!! I am sure he is a snitch for the trainmaster . stand up against him he is no good !!!. And also he stated I was going to pay it back . like they all do !!!!!!!!! View This Article

Name: JoAnn Brooks E-mail: royaltyreigns09@yahoo.com Employed as: Corporate office, for 30+ years Posted: 23 April 2013 RAILROADERS, PAST and PRESENT . . . I have been reading your comments and there definitely must be "CHANGE" within the Railroad System. I am a former CSX employee with over thirty (30) years of experience. I have also taken advantage of the educational reimbursement program, earned a Master's Degree, Facilitated training programs for management and union employees. My last position allowed me to work with the gentlemen in the field, SPG and Maintenance of Way through the Human Resources Department in Jacksonville, Florida. I am currently fighting in COURT against some of the very things you are upset about . . . bullying . . . retaliation . . . discrimination . . . unfair treatment . . . safety violations and much more. . . . I really want to know how many of you would be willing to rally . . . stand together and really let your voices be heard without sounding uneducated and WIN back . . . what has been STOLEN from US? Profanity may relieve the hurt and disbelief temporarily, but not intelligently get your point heard . . . MONEY RECOVERED and JUSTICE REIGN!!! WHAT SAY YOU??? Thanks JoAnn IS THE COURT SYSTEM INEFFECTIVE? MY GOD ISN'T!! HE RULES . . . Again, WHAT SAY YOU? TIME TO ACT NOW . . . LET ME HEAR FROM YOU . . . View This Article

Name: NoMo E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 22 April 2013 Hey APE 10-20: Good point...the RCO's came to CSX in 2001 and were fully deployed by 2003 with a two man crew. The back issues will start hitting CSX anytime now...probably won't be as bad as the asbestos suit but will cost the carriers billions! View This Article

Name: E-mail: Employed as: APE, for 20-30 years Posted: 22 April 2013 I would think that the RCO physical fitness issue is not the fact that 20 year old RCO's may have problems when they are 50, but that we have newer RCO's who were hired in middle age and may not have the seniority to escape to a better job before retirement AND - will not have full retirement until age 70. Meaning we have 50 yr old new hires doing RCO work now who will still be marching through poor walking conditions with a heavy box when they are 65, unable to retire and even unable to qualify for disability in some cases. Where do they go? How safe is this? Can we foist our corporate mistakes off on RRB so ALL RR employees can contribute to the $$$ by forcing theses folks into disability at a lower pay rate? The RR was never setup with the idea that 50 year old men could not perform the only job they could hold, despite a good faith effort.There was always a less demanding (physically) job they could hold, even if pays, hours, days off, etc. were not optimal.Something to think about. View This Article

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 20 April 2013 This is a nice post that has merit, and deserves a comment. The Remote was not accepted by anyone, no one wanted it. It came from the same place as FRED. It was forced into use by the carriers, they bought it and are going to use it. This is when the fight starts, simply because we have 2 unions that work together on the same locomotive day after day and get their info from 2 different directions. I saw that in the early 1960's ---when the Brakeman got off of the locomotive it was fun on him time. We had Fireman that rode a few miles and got off, it was the same again. We had Engineers that hated all Brakemen until the Fireman left. We had Conductors that would not board the locomotive if a certain Engineer was on duty.-- Now some of the real life BS that I posted above is still going on. Time to roll those dues into something that works. RCO with 3 is a good start, or fight the system with 1. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Name: Retired FRA Inspector E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 12 April 2013 I just believe that remote control was bad for everyone, and that it should have been opposed by both unions. This has been a big step backward for railroad transportation employees. One employee is now doing the work that was previously done by three. The young people may be able to spend eight hours walking in ballast, over ties and tripping on debris, but how will they do it after 30 or 40 years. And they are constantly carrying the extra weight of the remote control boxes. Also, from what those folks told me, they often must break rules in order to meet production demands. And keep in mind how stringent the rules have become. Technology usually makes work easier, but in this case, it has had the opposite effect. Power stokers on steam locomotives is an example of technology that was good for employees. View This Article

Name: I E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 10-20 years Posted: 18 April 2013 Looks like Stupid dodged a bullet this time. Done some damage to a Locomotive a while back on the north end, denied all involvement to management. Not to worry, Management knows about it now. Too bad your own local chairman dimed you out. Nothing like the union brotherly love. View This Article

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 10-20 years Posted: 17 April 2013 yes I agree he needs to be got read of. View This Article

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Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 17 April 2013 yes I know this is not professionalism, but it needs to be said FUCK Frulla I'm glad the coal fields are finally sticking together and putting csx in a bind with no one available. View This Article

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Corporate office, for 10-20 years Posted: 16 April 2013 Crane just got Burrus's job. Maybe people can not be so uptight now View This Article