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...

Webmaster's note: Since I go through the server logs regularly, I just thought I'd take this opportunity to point out that all of the comments in defense of the company seem to come from Jacksonville, while complaints come from everywhere that the company does business. You do the math.

Name: Cjones
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Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years
Posted: 05 February 2012

conductors lol   they are a waste of a seat.  Let them ride  The Jap.
caboose thats where they belong

Name: RRJ E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 05 February 2012 Gizmo Your #2 response is a little off base on the slow order. It's the LE & conductors responsability to make sure all orders are properly adherred to they would both be held accountable. In fact the conductor should make sure to remind the LE of the upcoming order.

Name: Gizmo E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 04 February 2012 To whining engineers: 1st- T&E is supposed to stick together, covering each other's rear and doing our best not to get each other fired. I know there are many dirtbag conductors, but there are good conductors as well. 2nd- You never know when that conductor will have to cover your ass when you get a knuckle or blow a slow order at track speed. If you treat me like a third class citizen, I know what I will do in that situation. 3rd- If you can't get over your holier than thou attitude, chances are you're one of the backstabbing dogs that are part of the problem at CSX, not the solution.

Name: RRJ E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 04 February 2012 The railroads got a 5 year extention from the government on PTC. It now doesn't have to be in place till Dec 31, 2020. The reasoning in this down economy enforcing an industry to spend over $2.1 billion could delay any chance of a rebound.

Name: NoMo E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 03 February 2012 A engineer only crew is fine and dandy but who you going to talk to for those 12 long, lonely hours. Can't talk on the cell or play games. Hell, won't even be able to sleep. Who is going to walk the train when you're in the hole? Oh, just remember, if PTC allows one man crews, it also allows no man crews. When the Conductors go, the Engineers won't be far behind!

Name: PTC Patrick E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years Posted: 03 February 2012 I-ETMS(PTC) will take care of the conductor craft...just think a computer and a screen that will remind the engineer of everything 5 miles ahead...work orders give a warning tone at 3 miles, hell it will even blow the horn in a perfect 2 longs a short and a long for every crossing...and if I fall asleep by chance, it will stop train 500-1000 feet short of any red signal, work authority, misaligned switch or end of DCS authority...no more decerts. Bye Bye Worthless Piece of Skin conductor, give me a place to sit and eat my lunch between slow orders...LOL Seem to remember the conductors getting RCO because a computer "replaced" the engineer on a locomotive...and the Green box is nothing but a radio to relay commands...this will be payback.

Name: lol E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years Posted: 03 February 2012 Most of us were dumbass conductors at one time. Now since I'm an est. En of my sub. I'm ready to sell out the trainman for a couple of bucks.. There isnt any real reason to have another man on the train. anyone who operates a green box is a fag

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 30+ years Posted: 02 February 2012 Engineers, what a waste of a seat. My green box does a better job, is safer, and doesn't talk back when I tell it what to do.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 02 February 2012 hog, Guess you hated it when your a-- was planked there. Not many are as lucky as you to start on the right side????

Name: hog E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 31 January 2012 conductors what a waste of a seat

Name: RRJ E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 30 January 2012 Goob It was a pain when someone wouldn't turn their lantern off. It became even worse when safety glasses became required. After the conductor came back onboard after knocking the handbrakes off got his side organized I wouldn't move till the overhead light was extinguished. The glare off the windows ect...was a distraction. You can imagine what a conductor with a night light was like. lol

Name: JJ E-mail: Employed as: Corporate office, for N/A Posted: 27 January 2012 New job....Director Federal Affairs - Washington . No railroad experience required. Bagman cash n carry? Do l get a car an girls too?

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 26 January 2012 RRJ 24 Jan 2012. I am still laughing, can't stop. We have both been there, staying awake on the left side is really hard for anyone. The light--- Lantern thing is very creative. I had engineers ask anyone and everyone to please turn your lantern off or set it in the floor. It was simply a distraction that reflected in the glass of the locomotive, and was irritating as hell.(Many wore glasses and that made it even worse) I never asked an Engineer to turn off the light, and was only asked a very few times to do the same. Never objected, because I understood the reason. Had I been in your situation, the bulb would just disappear, and never be seen again. However in my day the engineer would ask-- then act. Call the Conductor and the light would stay OFF. Might suffer 1 time but not Twice. I am still laughing!!!! Just a side note on sleepy engineers, every one knew them. My memory says that every time we picked up the orders from the Conductor i got off to pick them up. Engineer and Fireman would not move, some Conductors would get on to talk with the engine crew most would not. I always got the warning from the Conductor, be careful you know he is a little sleepy, and that was it. With that side note-- every stop between 10pm and 6am was on my watch.

Name: School Boy E-mail: Employed as: Engine repair, for 1-10 years Posted: 25 January 2012 IF you don't like the company why work there? The good thing about this great country God Made, is that you are free to work anywhere and not forced to work here. So again I ask, why stay here? Why not leave? Oh that's right, you can't get a BETTER job else where.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: APE, for 20-30 years Posted: 24 January 2012 Actually, CSX said that David Brown "is no longer with CSX". Didn't say fired, or retired, or left to pursue other interests, or had health problems, etc. Just no longer with CSX.

Name: RRJ E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 24 January 2012 Goob I won't disagree there are some sleepy head engineers. It was in jest I could care less if anyone walked the train it wasn't my job or arse on the line. There were a few that couldn't stay awake when we were moving then wanted to talk while stopped in a siding. I could care less if someone slept. There was one conductor who need a night light on his entire side was lit up. I'd go over turn the lights off while he was a sleep within seconds he was up turned them back on and feel asleep. After 2-3 times of this I got his lantern turned it on put it on the desk turned the overhead lights off and it worked. lol

Name: Fired by CSX E-mail: Employed as: APE, for 1-10 years Posted: 23 January 2012 Looks like Mike read too much about that Nazi Brown and his Nazi Brown shirts on here and heard to much. This should only be a improvement in the right direction. Ingram and Brown are now both gone. Happy New Year 2012

Name: NoMo E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 23 January 2012 ..."David Brown, who is no longer with the company." Old Dave got shit canned and Cindy's name wasn't mentioned, Will she be next?

Name: Corp Comm E-mail: Bye bye Brown Employed as: APE, for 10-20 years Posted: 23 January 2012 Dear CSX Employees, I am pleased to announce the appointments of Oscar Munoz as executive vice president and chief operating officer and Fredrik Eliasson as executive vice president and chief financial officer, effective immediately. Oscar and Fredrik are respected leaders, both inside and outside of our industry, and people I trust to help guide and energize the organization with the highest degree of success and integrity.  What means even more to me than their leadership and business skills is their passion for our company and its future. Oscar replaces David Brown, who is no longer with the company.  As stated in the press release, the company’s decision to make this change is unrelated to CSX’s financial condition, business performance or outlook, all of which remain strong.  We have a great operating team, and I am highly confident that they will achieve even greater levels of success in the future. Dean Piacente will succeed Fredrik as vice president of sales and marketing for the chemicals and fertilizer business, a position he held previously.  Dean is highly respected among this customer group and the transition will be seamless.  We will quickly identify a successor to Dean for his financial planning and analysis responsibilities. Also along with these new appointments, we are making a few additional organization realignments. Frank Lonegro and the Technology organization will be moved to Operations, reporting to Oscar.  This change will ensure that there is even more integration between Technology and Operations as we prepare our company to implement Positive Train Control and maintain all of the key systems necessary to run our railroad safely and efficiently. At the same time, Fran Chinnici and the Purchasing organization and Steve Crosby and the Real Property group will both report to Lisa Mancini in her role as chief administrative officer. We just completed a record financial year for CSX, and we believe that we are headed together for a strong 2012.  Please join me in building on the leadership changes announced today by continuing to deliver top-notch performance in the year ahead. Sincerely, Michael Ward

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 23 January 2012 Never forget.-----The RR's also have sleepy Engineers. Now,-- it can get serious when ya have 2 sleepers. Someone has to stand up, and usually does, and it is not always the Engineer. As far as the stop- wake up- walk the train thing, that came from years a go when the Engineer worked with a head Brakeman, and today with a new Conductor. In my old past, I knew that the Engineer and Conductor were for the most part pretty close, cross one---and ya get 2 at the same time. So many Engineers were instructors to the Head Brakeman, and the Brakeman followed direction from both end's. It worked fine. I spent many hours, standing by the control stand with a sleepy Engineer, watching him respond, nod, and respond.

Name: RRJ E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 22 January 2012 Pablo I think you've got things confused. As a locomotive engineer I did carry a mirror to check on some of my conductors to see if they were still breathing. It's funny they conked out while the train was moving once stopped in a siding where I could get a little rest they came alive wanting to talk. That's when I envoked that the train needed to be walked & inspected seeing the TD stated we would be there more than 30 minutes. As for pig stye locomotives that's CSX cheapness for getting rid of laborers who cleaned then supplied it.

Name: Pablo E-mail: BarrieBarlow@aol.com Employed as: Employed in other capacity, for 1-10 years Posted: 20 January 2012 Some things never change and whining railroaders have become an institution. Engineers that complain about cab conditions need to talk to other engineers, not the poor guys that have to clean up their perverse behaviors. Do you know what it takes to become an engineer? They hold a mirror under your nose and if you fog it up, you are qualified to be an engineer. Get over yourselves. You have the best job on earth. How many high school flunk-outs get paid $100k+ with limo rides to and from work do you know?

Name: E-mail: Employed as: APE, for 20-30 years Posted: 20 January 2012 Everyone who looks at RR history to see where it leads to will realize that increased efficiency leads to greater profits, bonuses, and stock sale prices. You can become more efficient in many ways, in various economies. However, the simplest way for a non clever person to improve efficiency is to cut staff and maker each employee work HARDER, not smarter.The really smart folks work for Google, etc. Given that fact, everybody that works here should be preparing for the day when they bail out. CSX have just tightened up their tuition assistance program, as example, but you can still get a lot of stuff paid for, to help you in civilian life when needed. A lot of this is available on line 24/7. You can learn to run a small business or get skills in many ways. If you used to do brake work or remodel kitchens try to do some on the side to keep your contacts and experience. I know this is a killer w/work schedules but push hard. What you can't do is sit around in a blue funk making you, your family, and co-workers unhappy.If you are on a cruise ship you hope everything is fine during your journey, but you know the emergency exits and keep a life preserver handy, just in case.Don't rely on the captain of your cruise ship or your company to take good care of you - he might be looking out for himself instead. So, keep your options open and your parachute packed - just in case. There are a lot of talented people working out here who have other skills in storage, or can learn them. Keep them fresh in case you are activated for a new job.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 19 January 2012 LE 20-30. You can say too much invested by YOU, to leave the RR. Tier 1 and 2, job insurance, and throw what else ya feel into the job. Such as No railroad experienced management. The real deal is ya want to stay and work where ya work. Most likely you have worked other places before the RR, and see this job as better than the alternative. Nothing wrong with that. It is a wonderful career for many. However, Do not paint a picture of being captive to the RR, You are not! You may need to get a set to leave, and take your skill's to a different level, now that is a risk that only you can choose. The rails are not today nore has there ever been a guarantee, that 20 from now we will be the same. No company can do that. Bottom line, if you can endure, and hopefully like the work, make a living, feed the kid's and retire nicely. Dang son that is LIFE.

Name: JJ E-mail: Employed as: Corporate office, for N/A Posted: 19 January 2012 LE 20/30, an Iron Horseman. Rare breed.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 20-30 years Posted: 17 January 2012 People do beause after a period of time there is to much invested to walk out...its designed that way, between teir 1and2, job insurance, and other "contributions" we make we are taxed to the max. My advise for what its worth is if your unsure get out before you invest any real amount of time, otherwise you to will be brainless like me, i do wish i would have done somthing else but i didnt see the company i take pride in being run this way 20+ years ago. The management has gotten uneducated in our business there are no more railroaders running the railroad. The work has got easier but the rule inforcement is out of control. One thing remains the same though.. just do what they say and they will make you money..SLOW DOWN.

Name: JJ E-mail: Employed as: Corporate office, for N/A Posted: 14 January 2012 Anyone with a normal brain would not work for an industrial dinosaur managed by cavemen. People do becaude they have no choice.

Name: NoMo E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 11 January 2012 Hey Me: Who's your daddy? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVRzk3VWOKY&ob=av2e

Name: RRJ E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 11 January 2012 LOL!!!!!That's a good one!

Name: me E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years Posted: 11 January 2012 Evans, I've never met him, but I think he might be my Daddy.

Name: Evans E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years Posted: 10 January 2012 Me Are you related to RRJ?

Name: me E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years Posted: 10 January 2012 Just marked off P.B. my mother's prostate is acting up again.

Name: RRJ E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 10 January 2012 bobby jones Good for you leaving was the right thing to do. You're just a statistic that 4 out of 5 will/should quit. In this economy to many people are staying longer than they should on the railroad. Railroaders have always complained that's part of the job. Most of those hired the past 10-15 years like it. They've excepted the requirements.

Name: RUKidding E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 10 January 2012 To LE 30+: You mention that you are "pro union", yet the facts you cite in your diatribe on the current state of unions is a little off the mark, as are your comments on who is to blame for the current state of affairs. First, union officers who make $300K a year? really, I suggest you look at the DOL website and search for your respective unions LM reports where the salaries of those union leaders is a matter of public record for all to see. I also doubt you'll see any salaries in the range you suggest. As to our current contracts and situation, it can be argued that the UTU placed us in that position, or on the path of going the PEB route, but the fact remains, that the unions within PEB243 were told by the people in the congress that if the issue actually came to them, they'dve shoved into us even more, quite possibly wrecking the RLA and RRB in the process of "helping us". This should be cause for concern because it shows where the real issue lies, that being the congress we elect of office doesn't represent us, they represent those special interests who supply the most dollar wise. Now who might that be? Surely not the unions who essentially operate on a shoestring money wise. Hell we get grief from our repective memberships for a $1.00/month increase in dues while the bozos in congress take 10 times that from us without so much as a whimper from those same folks who gripe at the $1.00 increase. Most union members don't care about what goes on between contracts, either within their union, or the congress. They only look at things from that brief time and say to their union "what are you going to do for me?" Nevermind that in between when that union member should have been caring and paying attention the whole time, congress cuts the rug out from under the union by being beholden to the Carrier who supplies those congressmen with the $$ for re-election. And we wonder why we're in the proverbial pickle? That union that you seem to despise is in actuality protecting you rights and helping to keep your standards of living at par or better than the nation as a whole, all while you happily go to work in between contracts and pay no mind to what gos on. The whole time protecting you from forces that would love to strip that which you have away from you. If they could do it all at once they would. They can't because of some of things the union brought to you (i.e. RLA, mediation, workers rights laws just to name a few). We all need to wake up and see where the process has gone wrong and start doing something about it instead of standing in the shadows, and then bitching about the very folks who do our battles for us 365/24/7 .

Name: bobby jones E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 10 January 2012 I left CSX in 2007 after 2 years of being conductor. I could not believe the things that took place. I truly feel for all those railroaders that don't have a way out. Luckily I had another job ready before leaving. Union? What union? I remember being in conductor school in Atlanta, before any of us knew anything about the RR, and we had to join a union. Interesting how one union came in (UTU) one day and said we must join them. We did cause we did not know any better. What BS. Later I found out we were supposed to have a choice. I bet that one never made it to the management desk. I remember them trying to fire you for anything. It was stressful so I said goodbye bitches! By the way, what A GREAT ASS WHOOPIN BAMA JUST PUT ON LSwho.......

Name: RRJ E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 09 January 2012 LE 20-30 Explain how the BLE should of followed through? Striking wasn't an option after Obama invoked his power to create the PEB. UTU is the one weak link signing contracts as a rogue union then creating the dreaded pattern. Nothing different than anything they've done in the past 40 years. Arbitraries? Those fall under the current CSX/BLE SSA. We did except less pay raises in the '90s to preserve healthcare. Times have changed the railroads just went with the flow like the rest of corporate American on crying poverty over employee healthcare cost.

Name: evANS E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years Posted: 08 January 2012 CSX is a worse place to work for now then it was when I hired out. Yes I blame the unions for it. I was raised union and will die union. But, The utu and ble are arms of the carrier nothing more. I hate the safety sucks and the basterds who represent us to only take a company job after they lose their office..

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 20-30 years Posted: 08 January 2012 Yes I said it and will own up to it, however the BLE did show a little backbone recently, without following through as usual the carriers got what they wanted, all modeled by a wonderful agreement by the useless UTU..But this isnt a Union bashing page so i digress...Just look at the rates of our monthley dues regardless of affiliation. Oh and by the way incase you hvaent notice..we ARE loseing our arbitrairies..Where is my additional cost of living that we gave up for the helthcare we now pay for??? The list goes on and on..but its cool between the 2 unions we have a multitude of 3ook plus salaries to pay.YES i am PRO union, just NOT PRO these unions.They are in bed with the machine and care nothing of us, greed has infiltrated them too. But hey its all we got right? I guess we should be good little sheep and pay our dues and keep our mouths shut.

Name: RRJ E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 08 January 2012 LE 20-30 You state paying union dues doesn't benefit anyone. Without the union incomes would greatly decrease. Don't think so then take away the milage rate go to an actual hourly rate. Take away the extras like certification pay, lonesome pay, meal allowances ect.... Then do deadheads at an hourly rate instead of a basic day some ID runs get total milage. Those lucky to do turns on good runs make it a basic day instead of two days pay. See how much your paycheck decreases. All these the union got for you. You say the unions need to do more times are difficult. Look at Indiana, Ohio, Wisconsin ect...they are using the state legislators to do way with collective bargaining. The BLE went the distance this time around with the national. They did what the members asked within the regulations they have to follow under the RLA. Every union caved in except the BLE & BMWE. The BLE brought it to the members for a vote it passed by a 2 to 1 margin. The BMWE is in a cooling off extension till next month under the PEB. You want to compare wages look at a shortline. Unions aren't what they were 25 years ago. Still it's better than not having one. Is anyone willing to take that chance?

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 07 January 2012 Three train wrecks at one spot including a rear-ender. That's not good! Any more news?

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 20-30 years Posted: 07 January 2012 Just another opinion i guess... I too agree with all thats been said on both sides, yes when i hired out i was told i would have to work "SOME" weekends not ALL, and the same goes with holidys. Staying and paying the dues will benefit in time. Not union dues they wont benefit anyone in either union. As far as the RSIA it means nothing..incase we all havent noticed..Politicians are there to make us think we have a choice, all the while not wanting to give up their cush money from lobbiest which in turn are paid by big buisness. Yeppp corperations own our country, choices, freedoms, and all that greed is a burden on an honest man. It is a good job, however i do agree we as railroad employees are being pawned off as idiots because we have just gone with the flow, it is time to complain and not keep our mouths shut.. we tried that route and all we have done is continue to lose our benefits, and collective barganing power. And next time sone colledge kid 2 year trainmaster tells you "you called us for a job" tell them only once " you call me daily". We are the power of this company voice our opinions... Csx dont like to hear it and you will be labled as a complainer, but thats their way of defending their wrong doings.They do not want people thinking for themselves because then we dont fit "THEIR" plan, but i have a child to raise and am very concerned that their plan is not in the best intrest for us, the people who ultimately pay their salary....Sorry to be so long winded and i could go on for days so i will stop. Its a shame too because this has the potential to be the best employer in the US. I do love my job just tired of all the micro managed yes men idiots that cant think outside of the box. PS... Sry to hear of the 3 train pile up in indianna, if you work in that area please be careful im sure blitz teams and stick men will be out in full force....

Name: RRJ E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for Less than 1 year Posted: 07 January 2012 Evan Sounds like sour grapes. With over 70% voting in favor of ratification the majority rules. I figured seeing you cried about it on every thread I'd do the same. lol

Name: RRJ E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 07 January 2012 Evan I might be a little of all those but most important I'm retired collecting that nice RRB check every first of the month. LOL

Name: Evan E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years Posted: 06 January 2012 Suzannah Well said RRJ is an idiot about half the time. He's a union man, no wait a minute he's a company man. No he's full of shit.

Name: RRJ E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 06 January 2012 That's right suzannah take it with a smile. LOL!

Name: suzannah E-mail: Employed as: APE, for 10-20 years Posted: 06 January 2012 T.Dispatcher.... THATS IT! Sale...sell...Excuse my spelling! Happens when Im pissed! What surprises me more is you take the time to read my post and reply and thats all you got. I know you've had some pretty crappy changes made in your department, but I guess we should do what chris and RRJ suggest and just take it with a smile!!!

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Train Dispatcher, for 10-20 years Posted: 06 January 2012 *sell* not sale

Name: RRJ E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 06 January 2012 suzannah To clarify. I'm just stating you shouldn't think things are worse than they were 20-30 years ago. In reality it's the same just a different name & color scheme on the locomotives.

Name: RRJ E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 06 January 2012 suzannah Nothing that is going on with payroll ect...is new it been going on for decades. The only difference today is one must deal with JAX instead of a local payroll clerk. As for giving up a life to work on the railroad that's an individuals choice no one is forcing anyone. That's the difference between my generation and today we embraced the lifestyle those that didn't quit. Railroad was/is never meant to be for everyone. I think staying if one doesn't like the job requirements is foolish. You say you earn your money by giving up your time. You're exactly correct so quit complaining about it. It's a railroad they move freight which means time away from home & family. Being on call 24/7 most times at home just to get rest has been going on since railroads began. What makes ya'll so special? You have gaurenteed extra boards, rest days, FRA manditory rest days ect....I wonder how many would stay if they didn't have these things. We worked under extra boards that were "feast or famine" at times having to collect unemployment to supplement our paychecks per half. It's hysterical to suggest I don't understand railroading. Ya'll have it easier than we did pay wise even with the stricter policies on CSX.

Name: suzannah E-mail: Employed as: APE, for 10-20 years Posted: 06 January 2012 RRJ, You just kill me. Sometimes you get on here and you sound like you really understand the depth of what goes on then you come back and side with someone who obviously has no idea what the hell really goes on... We deserve every dime we get because we sacrifice so much for the company. when you sign on the dotted line you sale your soul. You sale you family life, personal life and your basic feedom. So hell yeah we should be well paid. What we shouldnt have to do is fight for our damb pay because they cant get their shit together. I just had to create a case with payroll to get paid for two daily vacation days I took on the 28th and 29th because they cant find any records that I had the days to take. Not only did the vacation roster allow me to schedule the days, the computer put me off on my days and it was noted on the vacation entitlement screen that I had the days. I have a copy of the screen. Its just more bullshit. So I will be short over 500.00 on my pay that I was expecting. Its pocket change to the big wigs so they dont give a shit. If they did they would sit down and figure out how to fix this crap. Ive been with this company 11 years and it hasnt changed one bit. There is always someone getting screwed. I bet if we could charge them interest on our money until we get it paid, they would be sending it overnight mail immediatley!

Name: RRJ E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 06 January 2012 Chris is right there are thousands waiting for a chance to get a job with CSX and the other railroads. A lot of people have been unemployed and low wage earners for to long. I read it on here all the time the only reason people stay is because they can't get anything better. Then they should appreciate what they have instead of such negative attitudes. I won't disagree that CSX is a pain in the arse to work for with it's policies. Then again the money you make with only needing a high school diploma people with advance degrees would like to make the same.

Name: Evans E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years Posted: 05 January 2012 The national was ratified. This proves the carrier can and will do whatever it wants. Healthcare isn't what it was just wait till next contract. We will even give up a little more. The time I retire the carrier wont contribute nothing. Utu, Ble, Csx FUCK YOU

Name: ha! E-mail: Employed as: Brakeman, for 10-20 years Posted: 05 January 2012 Chris, You need to practice your web surfing skills. You obvioulsy thought this site said....CSX SUCK UPS! Wrong..... Did you hear richy rich mickey ward hasnt decided yet which bonus he wants to give the engineers. Hes undecided between 70 and 80 percent. Never mind all the rag letters we got in the mail about how great the company was doing and how great a profit the company has been making and how the business is up.... I bet he has no problem giving himself a raise of 100% and a bunch of stock. Lets just watch and see what kind of bonus he gives his right hand man and woman!

Name: NoMo E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 05 January 2012 I think Chris might be one of the millions wanting to swap his spatula for a switch key!

Name: chris E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 05 January 2012 You guys kill me! There are millions of people that would love to take your job with the RR, and do it with a smile on their face every day. If you don't like your job I heard mcdonald's is hiring : )

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Yard Master, for Less than 1 year Posted: 04 January 2012 here is an idea, GET MARRIED ON YOUR DAY OFF! YOU HAVE A JOB TO DO SO DO IT! IF YOU DIDNT HAVE THIS GREAT PAYING JOB YOUR SOON TO BE WIFE WOULDNT EVAN TAKE A SECOND LOOK AT YOU!

Name: Po E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for Less than 1 year Posted: 02 January 2012 Thanks for the info I hope i get a week in march

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 02 January 2012 Real Retirement life from the other side. I took employees for retirement dinners (and years of service), and ignored others. However the company retirement( and years of service) awards were the same for everyone. As a manager, the dinners were something that I wanted to do, It was not in the retirement or service award program. I was refused many times, just thanked them and went on. Don't confuse a managers flexibility with what you have heard and expect.

Name: RRJ E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 02 January 2012 Suzannah The bad part is the division HQ controls the safety award money. On the Huntington it seemed Bob Frulla the past 4-5 years made Huntington his showplace and screwed everyone else. That's pretty obvious with Huntington family day picnics ect...while the rest of the terminals are ignored. I know people complained about safety cookouts but in reality it was one of the only times we had to get feedback. People thought it was easy to put one on in reality we spent up to 14 hours working mostly because local management would only allow 3 people time off. You're right to much favortism on the railroad. I know that TM's would take certian people & their family out for steak dinners and present them the plaques & watches upon retirement while the majority were ignored. Amongst my peers most didn't want anything from CSX. They paid their dues it was time to enjoy life. We have retiree lunches every 3 months a lot of people didn't want to particpate till they realised it's the "C&O Railroad Retirees Lunch" and nothing to do with CSX. The same goes for the SCL & RF&P in my area.

Name: RRJ E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 02 January 2012 When do the trainmen vacation bids need to be in these days? It use to be end of March. The engineers were different it had to be done in November or December. If anyone wants vacation early they can get it. Being new you better put in for a realistic dream sheet bottom of the roster it would be better to take daily vacation then jump on days you want when it becomes available for a bid. By combining PL & DV days one could get two weeks vacation. Or take 2-3 short 3-4 days of vacation during the year. Daily vacation is the best route.

Name: NoMo E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 02 January 2012 Hey PO: If you got 251 starts in your first year, you did pretty good. Most new hires spend 3-months on the furlough board. Has the LC put in any one's vacations...the old heads will be raising hell if he hasn't. Don't count on any good weeks though...vacations are allocated by seniority and you don't have any.

Name: NoMo E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 02 January 2012 Hey Suzannah: As far as the accusations by some unknown person. I wouldn't pay too much attention to them. CSX is trying to discredit you by deflecting. It's an old ploy...you must have hit a nerve. As far as the "party favors" go...CSX needs to hand those out as part of a safety program. Hand them out to crews that work safely. Boots, caps, slickers, jackets, shirts...etc. Probably save millions. In industrial settings, 5% of the employees cause 95% of the injuries which means 95% of the employees go without being injured.

Name: Po E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for Less than 1 year Posted: 02 January 2012 I have 251 i made vacation. Just need lc to put in vacation so I can plan my trip

Name: suzannah E-mail: Employed as: APE, for 10-20 years Posted: 01 January 2012 L.Moris, If this is the real L. morris, which I hightly doubt, you are not stating anything new on here. Everyone who has been on this site since 2006 already new I was removed(not fired) from operation lifesaver. If It had been a real job position, yes then maybe I could have been considerd fired, but it wasnt. We all know I was told to step down because I was on this site expressing my personal opinion. Second, I would like you to present some cold hard facts(not office gossip) that I was drinking on company property. I quit wasting my time and effort participating in the redblock program because It took up too much of my personal time. It took over a month just to get one blitz scheduled because of all the redtape! So lets get back to the original topic(which wasnt who's drinking and where). I believe we were discussing the problems with awards, recognitions, etc..not being distributed equally and fairly. If a terminal is handing out watches to those who are retiring, then they should do it for everyone that retires. If jackets are ordered, then all employees should get them(not until they just run out!) If other employees of the month get a plaque, then ALL employees of the month should get one. The employees chose that person and managemnt should respect that! A TM shouldnt get up on the engine after O-testing the crew and tell just one of the crew members how good a job they are doing and let them pick anything they want out of the csx catalogue while dissing the other crew members. RRJ, NOMO....Got any ideas on how to get a handle on this?

Name: NoMo E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 01 January 2012 Hey PO: Been with CSX less than a year? Got your 234 starts in? If you don't you won't need to worry about vacation!

Name: PO E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for Less than 1 year Posted: 01 January 2012 GET the vacations in.. Jim, get off your fat ass and put the vacations in..

Name: RRJ E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 29 December 2011 NoMo LOL! I've read several articles about exactly what you described. Flex hours, no dress code ect....Generation "Y" or as I like to put it "Why". I knew several new hires that were still living at home with mom never had any responsibilities at 25-30 years old ect...They never would of made it in our day. My father and those of just about everyone I know believed that son's needed to find themselves right out of high school bags were packed for us and we were on our way. Only girls were allowed to stay till they got married. Being 17 or 18 years old if things didn't work out there was always the military. One thing was a certian going back to mom & dad's wasn't an option. LOL!

Name: L Morris E-mail: Employed as: Employed in other capacity, for 30+ years Posted: 28 December 2011 Sue You got fired off Operation Lifesaver by G Bethel GM for getting on here CSX-Sucks.com talking about your employer and such. How could you ever be a red block capt and been drinking on Co property. I could never fire you. Maybe you know more than I thought

Name: NoMo E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 28 December 2011 Hey RRJ: Saw a segment on "Sunday Morning" dealing with Millennium Babies. Seems this group of 20-30 year olds think they are entitled to wheelhouse job right out of the box. They live at home and since mommy and daddy take care of their basic needs, there is no rush to go to work after graduation; so they wait for the perfect job with the perfect salary. The economy however has disrupted their grand plans and they now find themselves accepting jobs not worthy of their genius. Seems as though CSX is lucky enough to fall into this talent pool of virtuosos In an interview with a HR manager, she said it's not uncommon for mom to call wondering why Junior didn't get a good performance review or a bigger raise. What's unfortunate is companies have kow- towed to these prima donnas with such things as nap rooms, ticker tape costume parades through the office and flex hours. They mentioned Zippo.com as one company that indulges these titty babies but you can rest assured that most e-businesses and tech operations do the same. I think someone should clue in CSX to allow flex hours and nap rooms for the contract employees...might quell the unrest amoungst the natives!

Name: RRJ E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 28 December 2011 LOL! Oldheads are there just to hit the CSX lotto or for healthcare? Sonny, you have a lot to learn. You'll understand it when you get older. How about they may be older but not yet 60 the retirement age? The young man doesn't have a chance? Now you're sounding like a cry baby. Ever heard of paying your dues no one just hands it on a silver platter. Unreal.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: APE, for 1-10 years Posted: 27 December 2011 Get Serious Most employees do not want the safety trinkets and bullshit awards given to pet RATS. No Pride at the Chicken joint anymore. The old heads are hanging out just to hit a Injury Lotto or stay for Health Insurance. New guys do not have much choice. Safety Committee Rat just to get off on a weekend.

Name: RRJ E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 27 December 2011 It use to be that a person was given a years of service pin every 5 or 10 years. That was back when there were local clerks that kept a record. I did get my 30 year pin only because several of us requested it from the RFE. Last one I got before that was the 10 year pin. As for retirements that's pretty much left up to local management & division HQ. The last retirement cookout where plaques & watches were presented to the employee & the spouse was around 6 years ago. Things got so bad out there I had met the trainmaster for the subdivision I worked just months before I left and he had been there for two years.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 27 December 2011 To RRJ Are you saying that CSX does not have a recognition program for all employees? It should be in writing, and at certain years of service. It may or may not be, I am just asking.

Name: Nomo E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 27 December 2011 Hey RRJ: It's how the game is played. Seriously, you filed a claim that you're entitled to under you contract and CSX has refused to pay it. Think of the claim as an invoice and if I remember correctly, the penalty claims appear on the pay statement. It would be hard for CSX to argue that you never filed the claim. Come tax time, you should ask your accountant if you can claim them as a bad debt. Hell, call the IRS, they will tell you. It's like the powerball, it worth a shot...might be worth something!

Name: RRJ E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 27 December 2011 NoMo There ligit claims. People working the jobs were still putting them in till a few months ago when the BLE managed to get them put back on as road jobs. The claim was over abolishing road pusher assignments but still working pushers under a yard assignment but not actually calling them pushers. CSX's twist on words. Doubt I'll ever see a dime but it only took a few minutes to put it in. lol

Name: NoMo E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 27 December 2011 Hey RRJ You still believe in Santa Claus... I wonder, if the claims are legit under the contract and CSX failed to pay them, you can write them off as a bad debt. Think about Drs. that charge $150 for a office visit and because you pay a 20% copay or $30 and your insurance pays $60 they require the Dr. to make an adjustment (write off) of $60. I don't know any poor Drs. so they must be able to offset their income against the write off. With tax season upon us it might be a question worth asking!

Name: RRJ E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 27 December 2011 LOL! I'm somewhat right? If anyone thinks the railroads are suppose to recognize a person for their service that might be a long wait. They might do it for management we're not in that same catagory. If anyone should recognize the dedication it should be the union. Loyalties should be to the job and co-workers not necessarily the railroad next should be the union. I know people who have made a carreer of working for several railroads. The only common bond is they all paid into Railroad Retirement. I started on the C&O then Chessie System which led to CSX. If any I'll take the C&O which to this day when people ask that's who I tell them I worked for with a side note it ended up CSX. Last time I stepped on CSX was in October 2009 and never looked back. Former co-workers keep me informed. I still go to an occasional union meeting. I didn't need recognition I sure would like the $7000-$8000 worth of claims they still owe me. lol

Name: suzannah E-mail: Employed as: APE, for 10-20 years Posted: 26 December 2011 D-Wife, Dont feel that bad. I was voted employee of the month once and never got my plaque. Its been years and I still havent seen it. Wont either. I found out later that I didnt get it at the time because the division managers secretary thought I didnt deserve it because I got "fired"(her quote) from the operation redblock program. Idiot was told I quit and she didnt know what she was talking about and that shouldnt have any bearing on it anyway! Quiting my position on the redblock program didnt have a damb thing to do with being employee of the month! So rrj is somewhat right, but it also has alot to do with whos in control in the office!!!! Might want to read all the paperwork your husband signed before you run to the press. Make sure he didnt sign anything that would put him on a gag order.. With all the crap that goes on Im surprised stuff hasnt been printed in the press on a regular basis, or a few books havent been published about the "Life and times of the railroad....behind the scenes!

Name: RRJ E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 25 December 2011 It all depends on location. Some places CSX gives out watches ect...or the union does it. Other locations nothing. It's not a big deal a frigging cheap watch with a CSX train on it for a seconds hand. You can buy them for $30-$40. I remember going to the clerks office before I retired there was a huge stack of plaques & watches collecting dust in the corner of the office some for 2 years. The clerk just shrugged because he didn't know what to do with it. They use to have a cookout to give them out not anymore. The best reward is going the distance and getting that retirement. As a CONTRACT UNION EMPLOYEE they'll never be any pats on the back for a job well done the only recognition is if something jumps the track then it's not the kind one wants.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Brakeman, for 30+ years Posted: 24 December 2011 Hey Wife This Rooster Fish Chicken Shit Outfit is runned by Nazi Southern Bitches. Ward gives out his money to lobbyist and others. You would be better to just buy a watch. Maybe you could contact the union rep. Second thought that is a waste of time too. No one really cares about anything anymore but themselves.

Name: NoMo E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 24 December 2011 Hey DW: Sounds more like a Terminal Super. or RFE trying to save a few bucks. Besides, unless it's Rolex President Pearl Diamond watch, he's probably better off getting his life back. Why does he need a watch anyway...he has no place to be!

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Friend or family of employee, for 30+ years Posted: 24 December 2011 My husband worked for 32 years with the railroad. He gave up a lot of holidays, weekends. He got rewarded for all his dedication and hard work when he retired by being told no watch for you five guys who have retired. Since then they have reinstated this by giving out watches. My husband wrote to the CEO of the company and no response to this day. I guess he his too busy counting his bonus to respond to the little people who gave their time and dedication to the RR. I guess I am bitter and maybe CSX really does suck! Wonder how they will like it when I send a letter to the newspaper about their shameless behavior. Most money making companies give out bonuses to all their employees. But in 32 years not even so much as a candy cane. Bah! Humbug!CSX. Disgruntled wife!

Name: CorrUPtion Blogger E-mail: SaveAmerica.org Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 22 December 2011 Stand up and fight for what's right--so that we can all survive. Peace and prosperity to all the true Patriots; the rails that's riding the rails!

Name: Billy E E-mail: Employed as: Corporate office, for 10-20 years Posted: 20 December 2011 Merry Christmas and Happy New Year..

Name: brown1 E-mail: Employed as: Corporate office, for 1-10 years Posted: 20 December 2011 Your bonus will be sent by the 24th Dec. Merry Christmas

Name: ward1 E-mail: Employed as: Corporate office, for 1-10 years Posted: 20 December 2011 Merry Christmas We're shutting down Thursday the 22nd at 2359. Everyone enjoy your family and friends. Don't worry about rushing back to work. We will start dh on the 2nd of Jan.2012. thanks for a great year

Name: RRJ E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 19 December 2011 You're absolutely right the national isn't very national anymore. I haven't a clue why CSX, NS, BNSF ect...those that have on-property contracts why they are still attached to the national solely on healthcare. When the BLE decided to divide railroads on contracts it should be a total separation. I'd hate to think people will vote "no" just for the heck of it. It doesn't change anything on CSX. Congress has already stressed that under the constitution they have the right to take action to avert a strike that could harm the economy. It becomes a matter of getting a contract negotiated by the BLE or having one forced by the PEB. Dennis Pierce and the BLE negotiating committee managed to enhance the PEB recommendations. Why be foolish and turn it down for no reason? Those on the UP, KCS ect...have a greater stake they are linked in it's entirety with wages, work rules ect...I voted against the BLE SSA in 2007. People looked at the $$$ nothing more. It was an opened ended contract where nothing was engraved in stone. It continuiosly changes through the CSX/BLE dispute/resolution committees. People need to get rid of the blinders quit looking at the now and think 10 years beyond with how it'll have an effect.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Employed in other capacity, for 30+ years Posted: 18 December 2011 The National Contract is not very national anymore. The Railroads Divided and Conquered the contract by paying off GC's in specific locations and putting certain Carrots on a Sticks to get them to vote away from National Contracts.

Name: Aaron Cross E-mail: cindermydawg@gmail.com Employed as: Friend or family of employee, for Less than 1 year Posted: 17 December 2011 I think you guys should make a Facebook page mimicking this site. Now days if you want things changed you need a petition to do it. Its the next best thing to a strike and actually losing your job. Facebook now days boosts companies' reputation with the "LIKE" button, or it can destroy them or even make it better for their employees.. all it needs to do is spread like a disease over facebook, regarding the lack of pay, compensation, and general "fuck you work anyway" attitude CSX has for its employees, and once the bad publicity spreads enough CSX will have a hard enough time finding buisness from companies wanting to use their rail cars for transport for fear of a strike or bad morale the employees who transport their goods hold for CSX. im gonna tell you a story, I learned this in a leadership course in the NAVY. its called "The 10 monkeys Story" regarding how to change things. There are 2 monkeys in a cell. the cell has a banana hanging from the ceiling and a fire hose pointing inside the cell.. both monkeys tried reaching for the banana and got blasted by the fire hose every time they attempted for it. after a week another monkey was placed into the cell... the new monkey went right for the banana and the other 2 monkeys beat the shit out of him.. 1 and then 2 and then 3 more monkeys were added to the cell and each time the new monkey went for the banana the other monkeys beat the shit out of him.. and pretty soon this happened still when there were ten monkeys in the cell.. they would just beat the shit out of whatever monkey wanted to go for the banana not realizing the fire hose was already taken away. point of the story is, the fire hose is one guy, one guy who set rules or procedure maybe 10 years ago, and everyone back then followed it, and after awhile that one guy (fire hose) left and everyone else just kept implementing and beating the shit out of everyone else because thats just how its always been.. Just because things were that way once, doesnt mean it cannot be changed or someone else can make changes.. for example, A boss(the fire hose) got sick of one person in particular sitting down when there was no work to be done, so he set a rule that even if its -0 degrees outside when theres nothing to be done you will stand outside in the cold untill something comes up. well it goes on like that for awhile 1 year goes by and that old boss (the fire hose) is gone, and people are still standing around outside waiting for work to do, even the other bosses inforce it not even knowing the original reason for it.. and then it never changes.. you will always be standing out side freezing your ass off unless you question why it came to be like that or do something about it. Im sorry for the long statement, but I really feel for you CSX employees makin 40k for a job you should be making 50-60k doing. and what is worse is that for the low money you do make, you are treated so shitty and get screwed over so much. <<<Not an Employee>> so I can speak my mind since the employees who think complimenting CSX on this site will earn them brownie points or extra money in the future are too stupid to realize it wont.

Name: RRJ E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 17 December 2011 I hope you know what you're doing. The only issue that covers CSX is healthcare. It's a national vote those who work on railroads without on-property contracts have a bigger stake in it. Congress has already stated they're ready to take action to force the contract. Which could be the original PEB recommendations. I think I'll vote "yes" a 20 1/2% pay increase for the UP and the rest is better than the alternative. I guess one can thank the UTU for setting a pattern.

Name: evans E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 20-30 years Posted: 16 December 2011 I just voted NO.

Name: NoMo E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 16 December 2011 Hey RRJ: Yeah, you're right...when you're young getting your license takes an eternity. Then you look forward to buying your first beer legally. Before you know it your 55 or 60 looking back wondering where the time went. Life is perceptions...is the glass half full or half empty? Kinda like the RR!

Name: RRJ E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 16 December 2011 The main issue is the attendance policy. The days, hours ect...don't matter. That's never going to change. Wanting a life? Not in T&E on the railroad. That's definitely not going to change. There are other options apply for another craft. One maintains the time towards retirement, years of service for vacation ect...I've been wrong over the past 5-7 years thinking it can't get much worse than it is. CSX proves it can. NoMo To someone who still has 30+ years it hard to fathom getting to retirement. When one hits 40 yrs old then it's the count down. Till then it's how manys years on the railroad after 40 it's how many years left on the railroad. Is it worth it? Most definitely. One highlight is seeing that RRB BA-6 with 360 months credit.

Name: NoMo E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 15 December 2011 Hey Suzannah: Per you request, I have run your numbers, they are in order. I would however use 2080 hours annually for a 40 hour a week office job (52 weeks X 40 hours = 2080) since vacations and holidays are paid based on your salary or hourly rate. It would appear, based on the above, you have worked an additional 6.123 weeks or 1.53 months excluding OT which is equal to another 3.775 weeks. OT is a little tricky...while in yard service there were four or five times a year I would get called on my off day to cover the second half of day hill job only to show up at 1055 and push the enter button to tie up the ticket...good work if you can get it. In road service with the trip rates, I think we had to be on duty 8:33 before OT kicked in. Too bad you don't have much of a personal life...if you did, you could have cable and watch "Big Shrimpin'" tonight. Dominick and I go way back...lifted lots of Buds and smoked plenty of the Herb Superb. Those were the days Door mat? You be the judge...they can work you long but only you can work yourself hard. I frankly don't see how you stand it, but just hang in there and before you know it you'll be retired like HTL, RRJ and yours truly and all those hours and the daily rashion of shit will be distant memories!

Name: NS Engineer E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 15 December 2011 Looks like CSX has you in a submissive situation. Meaning you are their Bitch. You do not have to go to the Emergency Room. Urgent Care is faster and cheaper. The ER takes too long too. Have a Nice CSX Day, it is better on the NS.

Name: suzannah E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years Posted: 15 December 2011 Really sick, Believe me, you are not the only one that feels that way. You are expected to go into the emergency room if you cant see your doctor the day you are sick, or maybe go into an extended care unit close by. But I have been told that it doesnt always do you any good. Apparently they have the right to refuse your doctors written slip excusing your absence and stating that you received treatment. Not sure how they can get away with this, or how they are going about it. When I told my doctor that I had heard rumors that they refused a doctors written excuse that was given to someone to turn into the company because( the quote was) "Any doctor can write an excuse for you just because you wanted that day off", she told me if that ever happened to me that I was to call her immediately! She has not nor will she ever write a slip for bogus treatment of any of her patients. That would be a form of malpractice and she wont tolerate anyone making statements that would insinuate that she is that kind of doctor. She would file a slander suit if necessary. I have marked off sick one time this year. If I was to mark off sick for 2 days before the end of the year and I got one of those nasty grahms, not only would I be insulted, but I would probably send it back.....RETURN TO SENDER! DOOR MAT DOESNT LIVE HERE! 51 work weeks in year. minus 1 weeks vacation and 11 paid holidays(off) Lets just make it 48 weeks of work for a white collar corporate desk job in Jacksonville. We know alot of them get more time off than that......48 weeks x40hrs= 1920 hours...... I have already worked 2325 regular hours and 151 overtime hours(2476 hrs). Ive worked 556 hours more than they have! Thats 13 more 40 hr work weeks... Bet you would see shit hit the fan if they were told they had to figure out how to work 3 extra months of hours in the year! JESUS! Ive worked almost 16 months in one year and Ive had 2 weeks vacation already! Whats really shocking is there are guys out there that work a hell of alot more than me! HEY NOMO!!! Double check my math for me on this one. Make sure Im not having delusions! CRAP! Maybe I am a door mat!

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 12 December 2011 RRJ, If you say I am retired and on RRR one more time and ya love the 1st of the month. I am coming to cut your nut's out. Got it??? Ha Ha Goofy

Name: Santa E-mail: Employed as: Corporate office, for 1-10 years Posted: 12 December 2011 rrj will be getting a bag of seed and nuts. Have fun feeding the birds and squirrels at the park. Thank you rj for sitting these cry babies straight. You are an encourgment to all of us in Jville.

Name: RRJ E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 12 December 2011 willy, willie, william, cya ect...whatever you want to post as. You've never worked for the railroad why should you care? You're just a parasite that trolls online.

Name: cya E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 12 December 2011 RRJ, What are you putting in that morning coffee? We all read a lot of dumb shit from you.

Name: RRJ E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 12 December 2011 LOL! Ya'll made my point for me. It's become a cry baby site. I'm retired if I decide to post on here while having my morning coffee that's my right. About 4 times a year I send the webmaster a few bucks to keep the site running. Do any of you? It's your site to cry on seems you would take a few bucks away from those boxes of kleenex you use to wipe those tears away to help keep this site online. It's your railroad now not mine. I never was CSX till I retired I considered myself C&O. Which CSX also considers anyone hired before 1985 still an employee from the predecessor railroads. When all of us are gone in a few years big changes most of those protections will go with us. One extra board in the terminal to protect the road & yard. Right now it can't be done if anyone with prior rights is still working. They can change subdivisions put an end to trip rates seeing they were established under final & initial terminal which if hired after 1994 no one is entitled. Lot's of changes.

Name: Evans E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years Posted: 12 December 2011 Educational site rrj must have fell off his rocker again. I've red some silly post on here from him, but that one takes the cake. Old man it's time to put the pc down and feed the squirrels..

Name: really sick now! E-mail: Employed as: APE, for 20-30 years Posted: 11 December 2011 HEY WHITE COLLAR CORPORATE! Information on my Two weeks earning stub......WORKED 142 hours.....YOU WORKED two 40 HOUR WORK WEEKS....TOTAL HOURS 80! So lets do the math! If I was a white collar worker like you sitting behind the desk I would have worked 3 1/2 weeks of hours in 2 WEEKS! Then later when I marked off 2 days sick and didnt give anyone a doctors slip because I was too damb sick to go to the doctor to get a doctors slip then doctored myself up enough to get right back to work, I had to come home and find a nasty grahm in my mailbox telling me that I was on notice for violation of the new attendance policy for marking off 2 days in a 4 week period. You are insane! There is a fine line between physical abuse and mental abuse. You are starting to cross it! RRJ says this is an educational site people!!! Heres a lesson for you... Go into work and puke all over the TMS desk and shoes so he has to send you home then you should be covered... That is if you have the strength left to drag yourself in there after working one month of hours in 2 weeks!

Name: BOYLES E-mail: ALL INVOLVED Employed as: APE, for 30+ years Posted: 11 December 2011 I KNOW SOMEONE IN THESE POST,,,MUST LIKE CSX ...???? HAS CSX BEEN A BAD DREAM FOR MOST OF YOU.???? HAVE YOU HAD ANY GOOD EXPERENCES BESIDES PAYDAY...... DO YOU GO TO WORK IN A BAD MOOD.???,,,,,,,ARE ALL OF YOU ON TIME ??? ....I WOULD HATE TO KNOW,,I HAD 25 OR MORE YEARS LEFT TO WORK,,,IF I DISLIKE CSX THIS MUCH... I WOULD RECONSIDER MY JOB AND BE HAPPY AND CONTENT..!!...IT IS HARD TO GO TO WORK,,KNOWING HOW CSX OPERATES......CSX TALKS MORALS AND ECT,,,BUT,,DOES NOT SHOW THIS IN DAILY WORK,,, BELEIVE ME I KNOW,,,,I HAVE BEEN THERE,,,DONE THAT.....!!!!! GOOD LUCK TO ALL.........

Name: mmmmmmm E-mail: Employed as: Employed in other capacity, for 30+ years Posted: 11 December 2011 Educational page called csx-sucks. You have to be joking.

Name: Sonny E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 20-30 years Posted: 11 December 2011 rrj YOu must live on this site or do you work for csx-sucks? Everytime I read something on here you have some silly remark. You must patrol this site.

Name: RRJ E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 11 December 2011 Willy I've been on this site before you knew what a railroad was. It's become a cry baby site instead of an educational resource. Which was it's original intent. You want to try an insult me fine expect the same Sonny.

Name: Willy E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for Less than 1 year Posted: 11 December 2011 RRJ CSX-Sucks is the name of this site in case you didn't know. It's not like when you worked out here referring to certain ones like yourself " safety sucks, csx sucks, company sucks." this is a negative site bashing csx. I hope this helps. Now go feed your pengions old man..

Name: BOYLES E-mail: RRJ Employed as: APE, for 20-30 years Posted: 10 December 2011 RRJ, YOU COULD HAVE NOT SAID THAT ANY BETTER....100% TRUE..!!!! BOYLES.

Name: RRJ E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 10 December 2011 willie Think what you want. I'm a happy retired railroader collecting a nice check every month from Railroad Retirement. Railroaders have always gossiped that's a fact. Your generation has taken it to another level "the cry baby" syndrome. That's the reason you're called generation "Why". lol. "Why" do they always pick on me at CSX? "Why" does mom want me to me move out? "Why" does mom want me to pay rent? This list could go on. I think I've made my point. lol

Name: Boyles E-mail: RRJ Employed as: APE, for 20-30 years Posted: 10 December 2011 RRJ, THANKS FOR A GOOD POST......WIFE AND I BOTH DO ENJOY THAT RAILROAD RETIREMENT CHECK ALSO...,,,,,,I DO HOPE AFTER 2 YEARS OF NO INCREASE,,,WE DO GET A RAISE THIS YEAR... I HEARD WE WOULD,,,,BUT,,THAT STILL WILL NOT CHANGE MY VOTE.!!! I SEE ALOT OF CHANGE HAS TAKEN PLACE IN THE COMPANY SINCE MY REITREMENT ......ALOT OF GOOD FRIENDS AND CO WORKERS HAVE PASSED AWAY,,,AND,,,ALOT OF THEM,,,STILL YOUNG... I REALIZED,,,JOBS THAT WERE ON CALL 24---7,,,AND THE MONEY WAS NOT INMPRTANT ANYMORE.. LIFE,,,DOING THINGS WITH FAMILY,,,FRIENDS,,MEANT MORE TO ME THAT THE MONEY,,,AND,,AFTER R.R. TAX,,,,YOU MAY GET HALF,,,,,,,... ....YES,,,RAILROAD PAYS GOOD AND OT HELPED,,,BUT,,RAILROADS DO CUT ALOT OF TAX......I HIRED IN,,,I MADE $3.50 A HOUR AND I THOUGHT I WAS ON TOP OF THE WORLD.. RAILROAD WAS GOOD TO ME AS FAR AS MONEY,,,,,AND,,,I WAS GOOD TO THE RAILROAD AS WORKING......BUT,,IT GOT TO A POINT,,,,CHANGE WAS COMEING AND I SEEN IT....... I TOOK EARLY RETIREMENT AND HAVEING A BLAST ,,,WIFE AND I AND OUR CAMPER.!!! I HAVE ALOT OF STORIES I COULD TELL,,BUT,,,I DO NOT WANT TO NAME NAMES AS IT WOULD NOT BE RIGHT.... SOME GOOD AND SOME BAD STORIES ABOUT THE RAILROAD...... ......I DID SEE THIS COMING,,,,SO,,I PAID EVERYTHING OFF AHEAD OF TIME,,,,,,,I RE ADJUSTED MY SELF TO MY MONTHLY RETIREMENT INCOME,,, HAVE A BLESSED DAY,,,,,,,BOYLES..

Name: willy E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for Less than 1 year Posted: 10 December 2011 rrj ' we all know your a company man

Name: RRJ E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 10 December 2011 alyard LOL! You get nothing? The unions do nothing? Then go find another job that pays what you're making on the railroad. It would be difficult even in a good economy. A new hire with nothing more than a high school education makes around $40,000-$50,000 depends on the individual. Everywhere else a person would be lucky to make half of that just starting out. When I hired out in 1977 the first bi-weekly paycheck was equivelent to 6 weeks of anywhere I'd ever worked. The other poster. Bullschidt if you heard a conference call that TM's were laughing that your LC is a puppet. If he is vote him out of office. Heck you can bring it up in a union meeting confront the LC face to face bring up a motion to impeach him. That is yours an anyone elses right. Lot of good it does here on CSX-sucks. LOL!

Name: Boyles E-mail: UNION Employed as: APE, for 20-30 years Posted: 09 December 2011 THE GUYS I WORKED BESIDE WERE SCARED TO WRITE UP CLAIMS,,,,,SO,,,I WROTE THEM FOR US.......OF COURSE,,MOST WERE DENIED.!!!! A 100% GOOD CLAIM,,,MOST,,,WE NEVER GOT,!!!! NOW AND THEN,,,A CLAIM WOULD BE PAID,!!!!,,,,,, THE COMPANY SIGNED THE SAME AGGREMENT AS THE UNION,,,,,,SO,,IF A CLAIM IS LEGAL,,,,PAY ME,!!!!! BUT,,THAT IS NOT HOW CSX WORKED.. I HAD A COMPANY MAN,,TELL ME TO MY FACE,,,,,,,YOUR UNION IS NOT WORTH A DAMM,!!!!! CLAIM ALL YOU WANT,,,,I WILL PAY NOTHING,!!!. IT IS SAD,,,,HOW THIS R.R. HAS BECOME SO EVIL.......I HAVE BEEN OFF OVER 10 YEARS.......AND,,IT WAS BAD THEN,,,BUT,,FROM THESE POST I READ,,,,,,IT IS ALOT WORSE NOW,,!!!!! ....FRA RULES,,,,,,SAFTY RULES,,,,,,A JOKE.......MANY RULE CLASSES...THERE WERE SOME THAT ALWAYS FAILED.....BUT,,,THESE MEN LEFT THAT RULE CLASS WITH A PASSING GRADE......NO ONE FAILED.!!! IS THIS SAFTY.???......I SEEN FRA TEST GRADES,,,CHANGED,,,,,, BUT,,,NOW,,,I TRY TO FOCUS ON THE ROAD AHEAD.....I HAD MY TIME ON THE RAILROAD,,,IT IS YOUR TIME NOW,,,, GOOD LUCK,!!!!!!!!

Name: Boyles E-mail: UNIONS Employed as: APE, for 20-30 years Posted: 09 December 2011 I DO AGREE ,,MOST OF THE TIME ,,,I PERFERE UNION JOBS... BUT,,IN ALABAMA.TENNESSE AND MISSISSIPPI THEY NOW HAVE 4 MAJOR CAR PLANTS,,,,,NO UNION......!!!!!!! THESE PLANTS,,PAY AS MUCH OR MORE THAN UNION PLANTS,,,HAVE VERY GOOD BENIFITS...AND,,,AS LONG AS YOU DO YOUR JOB,,,,NO PROBLEM,,, I HAVE WORKED UNION JOBS,,MOST OF MY ADULT LIFE,,,,,LAST 30 ,,,RAILROAD.... I HAVE SEEN SORRY,,NO ACCOUNT..LAZY WORKERS,,,GET SAME PAY AS THE GOOD WORKERS....AND LAUGH AT THE EMPLOYE THAT TRIES HARD... SINCE ALL WORKERS,,,GOOD AND BAD,,ARE ALL PROTECTED UNDER THE UNION... IF THINGS ARE NOT CHANGED,,,IN THE NEXT 4 YEARS,,,,,PEOPLE THAT ARE 65,,,WILL NOT GET A RETIREMENT.....MONEY FOR RETIREMENT COMES FROM TAXES COLLECT OUT OF WORKERS CHECKS.....IF MORE PEOPLE GET ON FOOD STAMPS,,,WELFARE AND ECT,,,,,THERE IS NO MONEY COLLECTED FROM THESE PEOPLE...TO GO INTO RETIREMENT FUNDS.!!!!!! WHO IS GOING TO PAY.!!!! THE RICH,,,PAY ABOUT 75% OF ALL THE TAXES......THE MIDDLE CLASS 25%,,,,,,,,....,THE POOR OR WELFARE,,GOVERMENT CHECK PEOPLE,,,PAY NOTHING... AT SOME POINT OF TIME,,,MONEY WILL BE GONE... THERE MUST BE A STOPPING POINT FROM GOVERMENT TO UNIONS,,,, AMERICA IS AT THE LAST ROAD TO BECOMNG A 3RD WORLD COUNTRY... THE 3 RD WORLD COUNTRIES ARE NOW,,,PASSING AMERICA.!!!!

Name: alyard E-mail: Employed as: Brakeman, for 1-10 years Posted: 09 December 2011 I overheard a conference call today "upstairs". The officers on the call were laughing at our unions. They were getting their rocks off about our lc being their puppet. They even commented on tha national how Csx knew nothing would come out of the possibilty of a strike. They know our unions are a Big nothing. Really upsetting to know what we pay to get nothing in return. If your not a select few sucks you get nothing in return. It blows my mind how the same men are off every other day and twice on Sunday for union buisnes

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 09 December 2011 Yea I love how the company is making record profits but still are trying to find ways to screw the workers who make them record profits. Always trying to find ways to cut jobs and make us pay more for health care. CSX is just like the rest of corporate America. Greedy bastards is the reason our economy sucks.

Name: Y E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years Posted: 05 December 2011 Pierce formally notifies General Chairmen of tentative agreement CLEVELAND, December 5 — Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen (BLET) National President Dennis R. Pierce has formally notified General Chairmen representing employees impacted by national health and welfare bargaining of the Tentative Agreement reached between the BLET and the National Carriers’ Conference Committee (NCCC) late last week. Not able to strike=no union ble wasted our money and time with this bullshit when there was no way we were ever going to be able to strike republican democrats they're all full of shit they don't care about the unions just reelection no one stood with us why should we stand with them

Name: suzannah E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years Posted: 02 December 2011 RRJ, Had one female tm 6-7 years ago. Not one female since. Guessing they are not allowed in our area or they are just smart enough to stay away. Didnt take long for her to move out..... I knew things were getting tough when the they replaced our superintendents secretary with a man..not saying he doesnt do a good job, just looks funny in her seat!

Name: RRJ E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 02 December 2011 NoMo Thank's. I always wondered how they got on top of those hoppers. I don't think that was her. lol

Name: NoMo E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 02 December 2011 Hey RRJ: This wouldn't be her by chance? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Zn4eVaRhGM

Name: RRJ E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 02 December 2011 suzannah I'm glad you understand the issues I was discussing with women on the railroad. Not many anymore with the loss of clerical jobs. T&E is difficult it's bad enough for men with families. It takes a gutsy women to apply for crafts like MOW, signal maintainer, car inspector ect...fighting the elements the physical aspect ect...not that some can't do it they would have to go above and beyond to prove it. That would be the difficult part. I know a woman that made the move from T&E to the signal department recently. She's happy with her choice seen a picture of her on a backhoe recently. Even that can be difficult being required to be away from home for up to 8 days at a time. Good part she then gets 4-5 days off. If working local it's home every night. There are women YM, TM, TD ect...might not be in your area. I never saw any difference between a male TM hired off the street or a woman both were clueless and didn't deserve my respect. Both made me a lot of money by their arrogance an ignorance.

Name: suzannah E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years Posted: 01 December 2011 other/non-employee MAN HATER??? Oh you couldnt be more wrong.... I cant imagine how unamusing the world would be without you. Walked into the crew room full of men and yelled the word "BOOBS"! Jesus Man! I only thought owls could turn their heads like that. Sort of scary when you think about it.. OK, now lets get to the facts. NOT ONE SINGLE FEMALE yardmaster, TM, RF, superintendent, assist. super., division manager, assist.div. manager, rf of engines, engine repair, fuel pad foreman,etc.etc.etc..... So seems to me that I dont have anyone to complain about but MEN! Now whose fault is that? Get some women in these positions and have them do the same stupid stuff and you will see some real action. (ha!Know how you men love a good cat fight) BY THE WAY...Almost forgot..HI GEORGE! Smile,your on candid camera!

Name: Y E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years Posted: 01 December 2011 A union not able to strike is useless what a waste of money Congress kiss are asses

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 01 December 2011 As Always 2 sides to the story. Male Chauvinistic pig. Suzy has that pegged. Now we play the other WAY. She Hates MEN, and some Men Hate females. Be nice and it works. The 16 month Conductor says it all. He was, and did stupid stuff. A male Engineer ( New female conductor) would note the risk, be nice and insure her safety. Suzy just makes fun of HIM.

Name: CorrUPtion Blogger E-mail: unity@kickass.com Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 01 December 2011 A strike call by the international leadership will make amends for the lost leadership the 15 YEARS!

Name: NoMo E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 01 December 2011 Hey Suzannah: I have a better idea...to hell with the golf balls, pebbles and sand, more room for beer!

Name: suzannah E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years Posted: 01 December 2011 Daily rant, IT sure will be nice when the rest of us get 30 years under our belts and we can hold a regular job. Cute story.... unfortunately most of us arent even bothering to get the jar or beer out. Dont have time. That would take time away from needed sleep. Spend time with all the family members would be nice too. But then all the men probably wouldnt get their "honey DO!" list done. Worked with a conductor the other day who has only 16 months under his belt and the little woman is already raising hell. Looks like another ex board divorce in the making!

Name: Daily Rant E-mail: Employed as: Brakeman, for 30+ years Posted: 29 November 2011 The Jar & Two Beers... When things in your life seem almost too much to handle, when 24 hours in a day are not enough, remember the jar and the 2 Beers. A professor stood before his philosophy class and had some items in front of him. When the class began, he wordlessly picked up a very large and empty jar and proceeded to fill it with golf balls. He then asked the students if the jar was full. They agreed that it was. The professor then picked up a box of pebbles and poured them into the jar. He shook the jar lightly. The pebbles rolled into the open areas between the golf balls. He then asked the students again if the jar was full. They agreed it was. The professor next picked up a box of sand and poured it into the jar. Of course, the sand filled up everything else. He asked once more if the jar was full.. The students responded with a unanimous 'yes.' The professor then produced two Beers from under the table and poured the entire contents into the jar effectively filling the empty space between the sand. The students laughed.. 'Now,' said the professor as the laughter subsided, 'I want you to recognize that this jar represents your life. The golf balls are the important things---your family, your children, your health, your friends and your favorite passions---and if everything else was lost and only they remained, your life would still be full. The pebbles are the other things that matter like your job, your house and your car.. The sand is everything else---the small stuff. 'If you put the sand into the jar first,' he continued, 'there is no room for the pebbles or the golf balls. The same goes for life. If you spend all your time and energy on the small stuff you will never have room for the things that are important to you. Pay attention to the things that are critical to your happiness. Spend time with your children. Spend time with your parents. Visit with grandparents. Take your spouse out to dinner. Play another 18. There will always be time to clean the house and fix the disposal. Take care of the golf balls first---the things that really matter. Set your priorities. The rest is just sand. One of the students raised her hand and inquired what the Beer represented. The professor smiled and said, 'I'm glad you asked.' The Beer just shows you that no matter how full your life may seem, there's always room for a couple of Beers with a friend. Please share this with someone you care about. I JUST DID! Sorry this is CSX We sweat all the small stuff and drink alot of Beer.

Name: RRJ E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 27 November 2011 Goob That's pretty much like it was back then. Females did get jobs as clerks an operators. I remember a female machinist that worked in the roundhouse back in 1980-1981. She left went to work for Aramco in Saudi Arabia or some place in the oil fields. During the '70s & '80s they tried hiring women in T&E most quit. I only know two that stayed. They retired recently one was an engineer the other a conductor. I think there's 3 women in T&E that work in Virginia on CSX. Times haven't really changed. Women today make up a smaller segment on the railroad then they did before seeing technology wiped out all those clerk & operator jobs. As for being racially diversified that's one the railroad has been successful at accomplishing.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 27 November 2011 Female clerks, and operators go way back. Long before my time and yours.Female T/E dates from around 1965 on a few roads, same as Colored folks. However some Colored were their in the steam years, as Firemen during WW2. Colored trainmen started at almost the same time a females. The rails were all white T/E male for many years. In my years 1963/1970 not one female, not one colored, black, Asian, Mexican, or anything other than those that were running the trains that were unfit for service during WW2. These folks were the Engineers and Conductors. The rails hired a bunch as fireman/ brakemen from the military in the early 60's, and they were real people with real skills. When I left after 7 years the Engineers and Conductors were much more aware of their surroundings, crew safety, and overall nice folks. After all of that there were a few, old heads, that were cool, and fast, and polite. When ya got the call with them at 3am you were happy.

Name: RRJ E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 27 November 2011 suzannah Back in the '70s & '80s there were government incentives for hiring women. The railroads took advantage of it. I'm sure somewhere on the books they still exceist. There were women who became clerks but highly usual in any other craft. The railroad was a male dominated profession and still is these days. I applauded the women who can endure the job. I'm a firm believer no special treatment. Equality. I'm figuring these youngens you're discussing who bark orders are compensating for little egos. I never had anyone bark orders at me without giving back a jester that they were #1 with sign language an a few choice words to deflate their egos a little further. An oldhead taught me years ago that you can call someone an "arsehole" multiple ways without ever using the word. It left them baffled wondering if they were called one but there wasn't any use of profanity. It also works on trainmaster during heated discussions. It the little victories that makes one feel good.

Name: suzannah E-mail: Employed as: APE, for 10-20 years Posted: 25 November 2011 RRJ, OK, you are going to have to explain yourself on that one...Im a tax break because Im a woman? Just how are they saving taxes on me? Other than getting half the choices that the men get on safety boots and only 1 shower in the new building at avon I dont see much difference. Get alittle tired of the MEN always making remarks that us "WOMEN" have more control. I wouldnt have 3 write ups if I was treated differently. If anything our enviornment is worse. Having to put up with out of control testosterone on a daily basis, rumors of screwing the management and god for bid your engine breaks down because it wasnt maintained. Always our fault because we dont know what we are doing. Ha! Just a bunch of insecure men who's ego's are threatened because the little woman is doing the same damb job. If their manhood is threatened then they should go play football! As for the barking orders comment, no I wasnt talking about management. I was talking about some of the newer conductors who are showing up and think they have some kind of extra authority because the csx recruit tells them "WE WANT YOU!"

Name: RRJ E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 25 November 2011 suzannah Burst my bubble? You think to highly of yourself. You got a couple years under your belt but still a long way to go. My post was in response to hiring veterans for a tax break. Do I think veterans make good employees? Most do, some don't. You're example has me thinking you were discussing an official. Totally different animal. We've had our share of those in my area one we called "Sailor Bob" 28 years in the Navy loved being a hard arse barking orders. With in a year and a half he died of a heart attack. I hired out when it was nearly impossible to get a rail job without knowing someone because I was a veteran. A lot of people didn't like it they felt it screwed their son, grandson, nephew ect...out of a job. Most everyone I've worked with from my generation came from a railroad family. You got attitude that you're going to change it out there good luck on that one. In reality most likely they'll find away to get rid of people they deem trouble. Let's get realistic you're a tax break because of being a woman. Not a lot of women in T&E never has been they don't seem to last long. Best bet for you union politics. Which you seem to be involved in. Not putting you down in any way just stating the facts.

Name: suzannah E-mail: Employed as: APE, for 10-20 years Posted: 24 November 2011 RRJ Sorry to burst your bubble but not all ex military personnel are good candidates to work in the public sector. That was proven several months ago when one of their section 8 recruits went power crazy. Got shipped out of dodge! I have also had a few who thought they were going to bark orders and had to be brought down a few notches, I have family members in the service and they all say the same thing.... the young ones will only put up with so much crap before they hit the road. Dealt with that oversea's but not putting up with it at home. Just something to tide them over until they find what they are really looking for...

Name: Sexretary E-mail: Employed as: Corporate office, for Less than 1 year Posted: 23 November 2011 Happy Turkey Day at the Chicken Shi tt Express How or why CSX would assemble a management team of nincompoops in one location is beyond logic, (CSX Nazi Family Planning) I guess birds of a feather flock together! Are they Chickens or Turkeys? Avon always has had cars on the ground and on their sides quite often so why would it change. Too much whacky tobacco or drinking seems to be present. The Enabler should be gone sooon!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

Name: RRJ E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 23 November 2011 $ With retirements majority of oldheads will be gone within 4 years. Hiring military veterans makes good sense tax credit or not. That's how I got hired in the '70s. They are better disciplined better at following orders they know how far to push till the insubordination word pops out and know when to back off. Some kid who never left home seems to think if he pushes the limits mom & dad will cave in. Which doesn't work at any job. The railroad has always been militaristic in nature. They tell you when to get up where to report give you orders that must be followed they don't care if you have a family all most like the military if it wasn't issued equipment and doesn't fit in your duffle bag it's left behind. It use to be to get a railroad job you had to know someone grandfather, father, uncle ect...it made sense the new hire already had an idea of what to expect. That's doesn't happen anymore HR not the local TM does the hiring. People only look at CSX the other railroads are doing the same.

Name: NoMo E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 22 November 2011 Hey $: I thought the $9K credit was a part of the Obama's jobs proposal, which hasn't gone anywhere. Although, it maybe in addition to an existing credit As far as a write off as a bad investment is concerned...I can see that. It would go a long way in explaining the turn over rate in new hires especially since the REDI Center has come on line. As far as Avon is concerned, I understand there was another derailment...this time several were laying down. Avon has to be an embarrassment to the Great Lakes, Northern region and CSX, If CSX stays true to form, the current management team will be reassigned to other, lower profile areas in the next month or two. CSX seems to have "Brain Dead Spots"...Selkirk, Baltimore, Philly to name a few over the last 10 years. How or why CSX would assemble a management team of nincompoops in one location is beyond logic, I guess birds of a feather flock together!

Name: $ E-mail: Employed as: Corporate office, for 20-30 years Posted: 22 November 2011 rrj Order 1- Get rid of employees that are able to retire. Too many pre 85 benefits. Order 2- Get rid of all protected employees. Again, to many benefits Order 3- Get rid of the lower one percent of new employees before they hit 85% Order 4- recruit as many people as possible with military back ground. CSX recieves $9000.00 in government aid for each one. Standard civilians with no previous railroad training are worth 4500.00 Quoted by supervisor. "A person with a military background usually takes orders better and are less like to question their supervision. They are much easier to control if you threaten them with insubordination." Have to wonder if the company will have their recruiters at the airport when our troops come home handing out applications.

Name: RRJ E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 22 November 2011 TD 20-30 I've never posted anything supporting CSX. That might be your misguided interpatation. If anything I've tried to get people to understand how to play the system. If no one has ever showed/told them they're at a disadvantage. The last 5 years before I retired I noticed two different groups of new hires. Group #1 took CSX literally that they were the best better than any oldhead they would have 30 years experience by the time their training was complete. Group #2 listened to those oldheads who been on the railroad for decades and learned how it works. A lot of Group #1 are terminated, quit, or spending time in the street building up those 3 stages for eventual termination. Which group were you? You're a TD like it really matter.

Name: Weather Dispatch E-mail: Employed as: Train Dispatcher, for 20-30 years Posted: 22 November 2011 RRJ I am not sure why you take up for CSX on here but they operate on the Nazi Draconian management system. Our country is a mess with all the Greed. It is very true CSX does not care about the investment in anyone period. Just hired the dumbest relative you can find it this works for them just fine. Now get a bonus for hiring a new vet. Fire an experience trained person and put more fear in the Draco system. They Do what Brown and Sanborn tell them. All this CSX shit runs down hill to T&E. You are out of touch with what they are doing now. Reasonable thinking does not apply nor is it wanted or in the CSX Culture. COre values are lies and bullshit. Window dressing. Speak out and get your nuts cut off. If you are a Railroad Chic then maybe they will tolerate you to speak out on here but just know they might be one of them stirring up shit to fire someone. Maybe you are tied to them or have another motive. Weather Dispatch

Name: RRJ E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 22 November 2011 been there Why would CSX or any railroad spend all that money on training to try and fire a new hire for a turn over rate? Ridicules! The problems that excist are lousy training practices. You can't take someone off the street then within 4-5 months promote them then call them a conductor. If anyone is on the hot sheet it should be those hired before 1993 that fall under the last crew consist agreement. A lot of agreements will be gone after they leave. I expect one big change will be one extra board in place. A person won't know upon being called what craft or location they'll be working. There's other problems when you have a crew with a new conductor and a new engineer especially one that only worked the yard till forced to engine service. It's the blind leading the blind. The federal agencies that are responsible to monitor & regulate the railroads don't seem to care. Kick it up a notch in the next month or so when they start certification for conductors. Then not only CSX rules but the FRA can enforce another set of rules & discipline.

Name: been there E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for Less than 1 year Posted: 21 November 2011 HEY NATE Best advice you can get... If you make it through the school and to the property, lay low, dont question the rules and stay out of site. They have a direct order to get rid of the lower one percent of the work force as they come out for a turnover rate. You just might be the one percent they chose to ax. They wont do it until you get into the last 60 days of probation. It will be just before you are officially represented by the union. Sorry, got to pay the dues long before you ever have representation. If they are going after you they will put a failure on your record while you are training. So if they leave you along during your training period theres a good chance they havent put the bullseye on your back but dont ever let your guard down. Used to be if you had someone with you they would leave you alone cause you had a witness. Doesnt work that way anymore. They just lie and you get screwed. Good luck

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 21 November 2011 RRJ. The 16 hour law was fine, never heard a complaint. It allowed a yard crew to work 2 shifts if things fell that way (1-1/2). It also really helped turn the boards, as the state full crew law's applied for only 10 miles. If the trains were running some firemen and trainmen could triple (3) or do 4 trips in 16 hours when the boards were exhausted. On the L&N every crew member had the (kick for 10 hrs rest) right. That really used to annoy me, as the only folks that did that at the away from home terminal were those with girlfriends. At times we got run around because of the 10 from one person, and that was hurting MY paycheck, but accepted it as part of the job. As a side note, moving from a Trainman, to Fireman/Engineer, now that makes a RR career. I moved backwards from a Fireman to Trainman, Conductor. Now ya see why I left, I always wanted to drive, and left before that would have happened. Now I need to get back to being a RR officer,disgruntled employee, old fart with too much time on his hands, Has Been, kid that could not step up, Impostor and so on. GOOB

Name: RRJ E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 18 November 2011 Goob I never worked under the 16 HOS law it was change to 12 a few years before I hired out. A lot of the oldheads use to talk about it and none ever complained. It was if they missed it. I remember being forced to other terminals length of time was between a few months to over a year. Saw my house every few weeks. Followed work at other times the last one I spent 3 1/2 years living in a bunkhouse on railroad property. My home terminal was now the away terminal spent a few hours every 3-4 days at home. Best that happened when engineers got 10 hour undisturbed rest the last 18 months. I'd go down with one conductor go back with another. Usually got runaround 3-4 times started to make quite a bit of HAFH terminal. It was if I was beating the system. More time at home plus extra earnings. Then I could claim my spot back when I returned. All it takes is some ingenuity an everyone can beat the system in one way or another. One sure fire way to win is money. They got their rules play by them and make money.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 17 November 2011 NO-MO I think you and RRJ will enjoy this bit from the past. Up for Bid-- Brakeman, Flagman, Conductor. Inter divisional (Payback mileage) The job. Worked 6 days under the old 16 hour rules. I knew it was a money maker. Off day away from home. I bid on all 3 jobs,I was married and broke. Got the head end, and we worked week after week, making a killing, sleep at home every other day for 6 hours and gone again. New bride washing, me sleeping and leaving again. I was driving 45 minutes each way on a good 2 hour call it was ok. We all know how many of those that a person get's. Long story cut way short----This is the RR. PS- I never worked 1 hour on the RR, just walked a lot of miles, and spent a lot of hours there.

Name: NoMo E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 17 November 2011 Hey Nate: It all depends whether you're in yard or road service. One thing is certain...you will be on the extra board until your seniority allows you to hold a regular slot. Yard service allows you to be home. On the Extra Board there is no set shift and most of your work will be graveyards and weekends. Road service on the extra board...allows you to be home long enough to get your ashes hauled and sleep. Today the have mandatory minimum rest and scheduled off days. Back in my day I would work at least 30 straight and sometimes 60 before I marked off sick. the standard trip to New Orleans 12 hours out, 16 hours plus at the motel, 12 hours in and 10 hours at home. There have been times that I've spent 56 hours at the motel. The divorce rate among Railroaders may be the highest for any occupation so be forewarned!

Name: RRJ E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 17 November 2011 car repair 1-10 I just read this morning your union & 3 others broke way from the 11 unions under the PEB an excepted a proposed contract. Funny they ride on the backs of the BLEt & BMWE which are the only two unions in the IBT Rail Conference which entitles them to Teamster support then bail out if the railroads throw them a bone. Apparently they don't have the guts to take it to the limits. I did read yesterday the UP & BNSF have a proposed conctract. I know the UP doesn't have on property contacts not sure of Buffetts BNSF. With this latest news it isn't good for the 7 other unions numbers are dwindling. When it started after the UTU signed a pattern contract 70% of railroad workers were without a contact. Now with this latest news the numbers are around 30%. The power in numbers has dwindled. As for you comment on the union sets up work shifts ect...what's wrong with it? Are you disappointed because you might not hold 1st shift with weekends off? You actually think CSX loves you? That they would treat you better? At one terminal the UTU agreed to change work rules on yard assignments going to 3/12 & 4/10 shifts. CSX is trying to violate excisting agreements with the BLET SSA through blackmail to get them to do the same. The threat do as we want or everything goes remote. It's all about cutting jobs. Under this they'll lose about 20% manpower going from 3 shifts a day to 2 shifts per day. Oh Yeah! CSX loves everyone.

Name: Nate E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for Less than 1 year Posted: 16 November 2011 Hey, I have recently accepted a conductor position out of garrett indiana, I leave for atlanta in the middle of january. I have some doubts about this job and i'm not positive if its right for me. I know the money is great but im a family oriented person i realize i'll have to put in long hours and face the chance of being away from home but how often exactly? on average how often would i be home and away from home. thank you

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Car repair, for 1-10 years Posted: 16 November 2011 We need an uprise about our union contracts right now, the workforce as a group hates the company that pays our wages, and we have let our union run right over us,,ie.. most recently the utu accepting thier health care policies, which are now flooding into all union debates, this from a union that has no business in our ranks at all anymore, they are obsolete, you can no longer retire as a conductor, why are they still allowed to strong arm, and choose what is best for employees that wont ever retire under thier watch is beyond me.. the old timers gave up pay increases numerous times to ensure our benefits didnt fall by the wayside, well now that is happening before our eyes and no one seems to care....

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Car repair, for 1-10 years Posted: 16 November 2011 It's not CSX that sets your schedule.. Youre fine union has done that for you, would it be a healthier schedule w/out your union, who knows, but for now you work under an agreement, and that is what you signed up for..

Name: RRJ E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 12 November 2011 John Doe That's not new information. I know 4 people from my area who went to the same class at the REDI flunked out of engineer school that the RFE saved by telling the instructors he'll be responsible for getting them trained. Not trying to make it into a racial issue all were black their average age was around 47. To my knowledge this hadn't happened any other time. This was around 2007-2008. I got my arse chewed out by the RFE for sealing my evaluation sheets in a envelope for one of them which that's what it states to do on the instructions. They were bad evaluations this person slept most of the time didn't follow instructions didn't know signals ect...the RFE stated it was wrong of me that he wanted the trainee to read critisism. I was told never to do it again I informed him the only thing that'll I'll never do again is take anymore trainees. This was the only trainee I ever did this to my point was if CSX made him an engineer then the training is a sham. They promoted him luckily he stood for a yard job at another terminal after promotion. Two out of the four ended up by stop signals within a year.

Name: A "Wife" E-mail: Employed as: Friend or family of employee, for 1-10 years Posted: 11 November 2011 As a "Wife" to an Employee of Radnor Yard... KARMA!!!! I sure hope those men keep their jobs because they are going to be BROKE paying all that child support ( yup, even to you Anna)!!! I personally don't think these woman are that stupid not to know what is going on! All those meetings, training seminars, derailments and overtime or extra shifts are total BS!!! And if the wives and spouses know about what is going on and want to tolerate it, well shame on them and they are just as twisted!! CSX is not a place for families.

Name: John Doe E-mail: datsomebs@yahoo.com Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 11 November 2011 *****MUST READ******* IF YOU KNOW OF ANYONE OR YOU HAVE BEEN FIRED FOR NOT PASSING THE ENGINEERS TRAINING PROGRAM YOU NEED TO READ THIS. AN ATLANTA DIVISION CONDUCTOR ON THE A&WP SUB-DIVISION FAILED ENGINE SCHOOL AND IS BEING ALLOWED TO GO BACK ON HIS CONDUCTOR SENIORITY. OTHER GUYS THAT WERE IN THE CLASS WITH THIS INDIVIDUAL SAID HE GOT BY EVERY STOP SIGNAL ON THE SIMS AND COULD NOT EVEN PASS THE SIGNAL TEST OR ANY OTHER TEST HE WAS GIVEN. I KNOW SEVERAL PEOPLE WHO WERE FIRED BECAUSE THEY FAILED AND WERE NOT ALLOWED TO COME BACK ON THEIR CONDUCTOR SENIORITY AS THE LETTER YOU SIGN STATES BEFORE YOU BEGIN ENGINE CLASSES. GET THE WORD OUT TO THOSE THIS HAS HAPPENED TO.

Name: RRJ E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 09 November 2011 It's scary that some railroaders have bought into the right wing agenda. Rail unions have lost out which started in the mid '80s. During the '90s they didn't push to restore the losses. They became complacent. I find it troubling that this next generation of railroaders are willing to gamble on the right wing. They shouldn't care about social programs, immigration ect...they should be devoted to bettering their lives and that of their families. The direction they're going is a one way path to self destruction. I look that the republicans will take more away with ending tax deductions for the middle class. That could affect railroaders big time like away from home tax deduction breaks. The super committee is already discussing these things. Raygun did it to the middle class in the '80s by taking away 90% of tax deductions for the middle class. Those that have will find other ways to beat the system.

Name: GL E-mail: Employed as: Train Dispatcher, for 20-30 years Posted: 08 November 2011 Spelling correction - *news* . .

Name: GL E-mail: Employed as: Train Dispatcher, for 20-30 years Posted: 08 November 2011 God damn.... Both of you just need to quit watching cable new.

Name: BOYLES E-mail: Employed as: APE, for 20-30 years Posted: 08 November 2011 ...FOX CABLE IS THE ONLY AMERICAN CHANEL TO WATCH.... CNN,,MSNBC,,,ABC..CBS,,,,ALL COMMUNIST TYPE,,,SOCIALIST.... WHY DO THESE CHANNELS WANT TO DESTROY PEOPLE.....EVERY BODY IS 50...50...TILL PROVEN DIFFERENT,,,BUT,,THE MSNBC AND OTHERS,DO NOT TELL THE TRUTH... AND,,,IF YOU VOTE DEMOCRATE AGAIN,,,,,YOUR UNIONS MAY CUT MORE BENIFITS OUT.... ALL YOUR UNIONS WANT IS YOUR MONEY,,,,YOU HAVE NO SAY SO,,,!!!!

Name: RRJ E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 08 November 2011 BOYLE All I can say to that it's good to be retired. You need to lay off watching/listening to FOX, Hannerty, Limbaugh, O'Reilly ect...quit drinking the kool-aid. If you think republicans are your friends an if they happen to gain control of the WH & the Senate it'll be sad to see what happens to railroad workers & the American worker in general. I can gaurentee it'll not be nice. Who will you blame then?

Name: BOYLES E-mail: Employed as: APE, for 20-30 years Posted: 08 November 2011 SADLY,,,I COULD NOT VOTE DEMOCRATE,,,,,,, I HAVE ALWAYS BEEN UNION,,,BUT,,NOW I SEE WHAT THEY HAD DONE AND WHAT DESTRUCTION THEY HAVE GAVE THE RAILROAD... I HAD RATHER GIVE MY TAX MONEY TO A RICH MAN THAT WORKS,,,THAN A DEAD BEAT ,,SOCIALIST ,,COMMUNIST THAT IS PAID TO DO NOTHING,,,DRAW WELFARE AND GOVERMENT BENIFITS... WITH MY TAX MONEY.!!!! AND,,,YOUR UNION IS NOT WHAT YOUR DADS UNION WAS 50 YEARS AGO.... IT IS CORRUPT NOW,,,,,,,BACKED BY THE DEMOCRATE PARTY..... ...YES,,,I AGREE,,BOTH PARTIES ARE SOMEWHAT CORRUPT,,,BUT,,,GIVE MY TAX MONEY TO A WORKING MAN,,,NOT A SOCIAL STAY HOME DEAD BEAT GOVERMENT PAID,,,PERSON,,,,, THIS IS CALLED,,MODERN DAY SLAVERY,,,PAID FOR BY THE DEMOCRATES.. WHAT HAPPEN TO ,,,,HOPE AND CHANGE.?????

Name: CC E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 08 November 2011 RRJ, You are absolutely right about how Reagan started the destruction of the (tax base)middle-class. Wages have been on a continuous since the greed started!

Name: RRJ E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 08 November 2011 BOYLES Sounds like you're suggesting people vote for republicans or worse yet a tea bagger. They are the cause for the destruction of the middle class. It started with Ronald Raygun, Daddy Bush, a republican controlled Congress from 1994-2006, The Shrub, now a divided Congress with Boehner & Cantor at the top of the problem list. I'm not an Obama supporter I would of preferred Hillary Clinton in 2008 but like other years I'll vote for the lessor of the two evils which will be the democrats. I'll take social programs for the people over taxpayer welfare for corporations. Former Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren in 1952 stated "Many people consider the things which government does for them social progress but they regard the thing government does for others socialism". These words hit the nail on the head. The same BS was happening nearly 50 years ago.

Name: Radnor Trash E-mail: Employed as: Train Dispatcher, for 10-20 years Posted: 07 November 2011 Why is Ted not at the top of this list? If anyone would put up with Scott's crap he might of made the list. He is still dreaming that he's the ladies man. Other than that, I might agree with the list.

Name: BOYLES E-mail: Employed as: APE, for Less than 1 year Posted: 07 November 2011 ...PEOPLE,,,,YOU HAVE NO UNIONS,,,,THE UNIONS TAKE YOUR MONEY AND LAUGH AT YOU..!!!! ...YOU MAY GO TO MEETINGS,,,BUT,,,THEY DO AS THEY WISH,,NOT AS YOU VOTE.!!!!! IF OBAMA STAYS IN OFFICE 4 MORE YEARS,,,,,,WELL,,,YOU WILL SEE.!!!! IT IS A SAD DAY IN AMERICA WHAT HAS HAPPEN TO THIS COUNTRY,!!! AND,,,THE NEW GENERATION THAT IS LEADING US,,AND,,WHAT IS WORSE,,,THE GENERATIONS AFTER THEM,!!!! ,,,,,HOW SAD AMERICA HAS GOTTEN,,,,,,,,AND,,TEACHERS,,,WELL,,THAT IS ANOTHER STORY... SOCIALISUM AT WORK IN OUR SCHOOLS.!!!!!!

Name: Re: Nashville E-mail: Employed as: Crew Dispatcher, for 10-20 years Posted: 06 November 2011 Nashville If anyone that made it to "Family Day" could have noticed who is who. You had married employees that did not bring their spouse, employees that did bring their spouses and limited them on conversations with fellow employees, of course the glares from the ones that have had relations with one another. There needs to be tighter restrictions against the "Power Houses" that are ruining families and the companies name. Now let's start with that list. 1. Ted (swinger) 2. John (watch out for your wives, girlfriends and daughters) 3. Jeremy (better get tested when your done with him) 4. Mike (old school)

Name: E-mail: RED_CHECK@MSN.COM Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 04 November 2011 The BNSF is no better. If you leave for a family emergency or doctor appointment the hold it against you

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 03 November 2011 RRJ, Nice post 2/11 I loved the part where the Engineer's got/get rest days and the trainmen refused. If ya ride on the left side ya can take every call. Yard crews are not the same. MRL- Montana Rail Link has the solution, and it is working very well. 2 Engineers (BLE)on every train. They like each other, work as a team, trade sides. Little 220 mile railroad thru some tough terrain. Before I go, just want to throw out one more comment. The guarantee of 2400=2700 per half is not chicken feed. Anyone that wants the CSX to bend, is asking for trouble. Just saying. HA

Name: RRJ E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 03 November 2011 Some of you posters act like little kids. It's difficult to fathom CSX letting you work out there in such a hazardous occupation. Childish comments racist comments sexist comments ect....Didn't your parents give you enough attention when you were growing up? Mabey you didn't have a father in your life to teach you to become & behave like a man? I'm definitely not looking forward to seeing what's next after generation "Why". lol. Unfortunately from what I witness from the 12 & 13 year olds in my neighborhood there's no improvement. The gene pool has gone way down. lol

Name: Jeff Middleton E-mail: Iluvsuckingcox.com Employed as: Train Master/ supervisor, for 1-10 years Posted: 03 November 2011 ....my ex-wife hates me, my kids hate me, everyone hates me. The only pleasure I get in life anymore is firing employees in radnor yard especially if they are black. Pete Burris can't do anything about me because he is scared of me. The unions can't do anything with me because.....well because the unions can't do anything about anything anymore. So fair warning....if you want to keep your job with Csx, stay away from my yard or me and my big ass buffalo head will come down on you whenever and however I want......especially if you are black.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Employed in other capacity, for 30+ years Posted: 02 November 2011 Pete Burus is a complete nut case. He wouldn't even have a job if it wasn't for his dad being a board member at one time. Check his work record. He's about as qualified as a slug.

Name: RRJ E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 02 November 2011 NoMo Ha! He's confusing you for me. lol. Even I have backed off about the attendance policy. I didn't like it when I was working. His comment on my generation use to get 10X's more time off I won't disagree but we also had no gaurentee extra boards which were loaded down marking off allowed them to make money. It also was dependent on which subdivision one worked a lot of those oldheads never took time off. We use to draw unemployment for not making days or milage in a half that was on a regular basis. The only good times were vacation season. Gaureteed boards allowed attendance policies to get started. Can't blame the unions the members wanted it. If this person is working a board with no rest days it has be a local issue. I know one terminal where they didn't want rest days on freight pools or the extra board. They felt it would hurt their earning power even though the rest days were voluntary not manditory. Eventually the engineers did get rest days established but the trainmen still rejected it. I'm sure there are several places that felt this way and they still excist. Who's fault is it? Not CSX or the unions.

Name: Conductor E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 02 November 2011 NoMo Yea only board we have on my line is Conductor board. They have done away with the Foreman's, Reserve and Brakeman board. We now have a daily guarantee board for 6 days and no days off. The other board I hold on another line is No Guarantee, no days off. The line I'm on has no board for conductors with days off. Anytime it slows and you draw a couple guarantee days they start cutting the board.

Name: NoMo E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 01 November 2011 Hey Con 1-10: You still have a conductor's board? How about a foreman's board or a reserve board? I thought those were all gone...we got rid of them in Mobile back in 02 or 03 and went to a trainman's board. Seems the guarantee was $2,400 and one day a week off. I think it went to a $2700 7/2 rotation which allowed one weekend off a month. I don't know what it is now. I don't know what line you work but it would seem to me the LC could certainly cut a better deal. If you seniority allows you to, move into the yard or the brakeman's board. The Conductor's and Foreman's boards were for the old heads that were getting ready to retire and trying to pad their retirements

Name: Conductor E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 01 November 2011 FRA days are a joke. You very rarely ever catch those days. I have worked non-stop basically for 8 months and have caught the FRA days 3 times total. Don't have a day off either on the conductor board on my side. So basically I'm on call 24/7, no days off unless I luck up and catch all early day extra jobs. So ya basically its your policy x10 worse. I always see you just downing every that complains. You have no ideal what is it like no days. You get sick and its not a 24 hour virus you better go to the ER or you break the attendance policy. Its crap now. You guys had it much better.

Name: NoMo E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 01 November 2011 Hey Con 1-10: Lecture people on the attendance policy? I could care less if you show up or mark off. You seem to know what the policy is. Now you just need to decide whether or not you will abide by it or suffer the consequences. Feel free to take off whenever you want. Attendance is not optional with CSX, the military or any other employer. Today you have mandatory rest and off days which is something the old policy didn't have. You can thank the guaranteed extra boards, FRA, unions and every one that abused the previous policies for the current one. It may be a shitty deal but it's the only deal you have...until it changes again!

Name: Conductor E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 01 November 2011 NOMO I always hear you lecture people on the attendance policy. You really have no right to tell anyone about the attendance policy if you retired in 2006. I worked with both policy's and I can tell you it SUCKS. The old timers like yourself got 10x the amount of days off if they chose too. Not trying to bash you but you have no ideal how bad it is right now.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 01 November 2011 Yea I was wondering how CSX can take certain doctor excuses and not others. Wouldn't that be discrimination to give Employee A no penalty for missing work with a doctor's note and Employee B a letter for attendance with a doctor's note? Sometimes they will reject doctor excuses because of the days you are sick. Don't understand how this is legal..

Name: Bo E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 20-30 years Posted: 31 October 2011 Ape I'm with you I hate this piece of shit company more every day. They have ruined this job. We are only allowed 1 day a month off sick. Coyle ,Frulla and the rest of our Natzi dictators are of every weekend and are there familys every day. We are lower than whale shit in there feeble minds yet were the ones who make all there money for them. If it wasn't for us they wouldn't have a damn job. They treat us like slaves and scum of the earth. As for the unions the are obviously paid off or they wouldn't agree to all this bullshit the company throws at us all the time. They could care less if we live or die just so we wear our safety glasses and little yellow vests.

Name: NoMo E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 29 October 2011 Hey APE: I worked for CSX until 06...I know exactly where coming from. The policy was you were allowed 3 days paid bereavement leave for the death of a spouse, child, parent, sibling and other immediate family members of your spouse. Unless the policy has changed...mark off. Don't ask them if you can, tell them to mark you off. You shouldn't have a problem. Bereavement leave was part of the L&N CBA I worked under. I would think it would also be part of any other CBAs. Discuss this with your LC...he should be able to help. I don't know how long you have worked for CSX but a word of advice, don't let them push you around because they will. Push back, the way you do that is know the agreements you work under and be active in your local. I can tell you from experience, when my father died in 02 I had to travel to Connecticut from Mobile. I needed an extra day and the caller accommodated me without question. The old saying, cooperate and graduate is still true...you look out for the callers and trainmasters and they'll look out for you and the ones that don't, you lay pipe to!

Name: E-mail: Employed as: APE, for 1-10 years Posted: 29 October 2011 NoMo, Its a shame u don't work here, beacuse you really don't understand where im comming from. As i stated earlier IT ISNT COVERD IN THE POLICY. Crew managment has to approve of all mark offs,(at least they've had to approve all of mine) in order to receive that day. THEY WILL NOT APPROVE. But im sure those morons will be off if they have a death in their family.

Name: NoMo E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 29 October 2011 Hey APE: Why do you need an answer? There is a written bereavement policy, mark off and be done with it. If the funeral falls with in the policy, you won't have a problem. If it doesn't, you'll face the consequences. You'll have to decide if it's worth it!

Name: E-mail: Employed as: APE, for 1-10 years Posted: 29 October 2011 This Company is an ABSOLUTE JOKE. I hate this place with a passion. Everyone in Crew Managment should be fired for being rude and obnoxious and never giving an employee a straight answer. I Have been trying to get a real answer for 2 days about marking off due to a death in the family that isn't coverd by their BULLSHIT policy. So far I have gotten multiple, different answers and they all come to one conclusion, "your outta luck". I seriously hope "upper" management reads this, so mabey they realize what a shithole this so called railroad really is. I FUCKING HATE CSX. THIS IS WHAT RUINS THIS RAILROAD AND THE EMPLOYEES THAT WORK HERE.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 27 October 2011 Evans, You gonna continue to send those Checks. I know bitch and pay, only because ya have to. Dumb and Dumber, at work. Stop payroll deduction, that requires a signature. Then wait for the phone to ring. That simple move from a really irate union member could put a few hundred in your pocket. Step 2 is going to be a little tougher, Bros are going to mess with you. Step 3 as a whoose ya pay up. So stop bitching, be a nice person and send your money to the most deserving???

Name: evans E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 20-30 years Posted: 25 October 2011 Ble sucks, csx sucks, and utu really sucks thanks to the unions for this shit attendance policy, thanks utu for the shit insurance policy,

Name: E-mail: Employed as: APE, for 1-10 years Posted: 25 October 2011 CSX is a Piss Poor Company to work for and I would NEVER EVER recommend anyone young or old Applying for a job with this company.From day 1 they try to Fire you and Hide in the weeds to Pray that they can catch you doing something wrong or at least Hope they Can LIE about something you did to get an O-test failure.The Huntington Division has to be the Worst division for Employees as Bobby Jack Frulla has a Hardon to Fire everyone that has on o-test failure.He and his Henchmen on the system could give a shit less about you,your safety or you feeding your family.He just wants to Fire EVERYONE I dont care if you have NEVER marked off,never had a Miscall,worked Everyday of the year even Holidays,Never had any Previous negative work history or attendance issues.The first time you get busted without your Studded Rubbers in the snow or Without your safety glasses your on the road to Termination in Bob Frullas mind he is out to Fire every employee he has.People like him are the ones who will Drive this company and companies like it into the Ground.No matter if how Stellar of an employee you are your still the Shitstain under the Officials and Bigwhigs shoesoles.You can never be a good enough employee and work hard enough for this company your just a # and if they dont like you for any reason there are schmucks waiting in line to replace you.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Employed in other capacity, for 10-20 years Posted: 23 October 2011 i think being given sick days and THEN being penalized for using them is a huge form of harassment. We are now on a "points" system which is R I D i C U L O U S. As for discrimination. . . NO doubt about it. it is just reverse discrimination. It is very sad how this company operates. They do nothing to boost morale which leads to good workers turning intslackers

Name: shocked E-mail: Employed as: Employed in other capacity, for 10-20 years Posted: 21 October 2011 Shock and Awwe. Cant believe a company has so much fucked up shit in it. If they did a reality show about all the people fucking other employees wives, or the street trash at the hotels America would tune in.They could hae it sponsored by Penicillin. Its really sad what goes on in some of these places. But in the Florence division the spreadings legs and diseases been going on for years, and everyone has tasted everyone elses cocks pretty much. Why a man would put his dick in some of these raw sewage pussies I wont know. I would jerk off for life before I would touch that. Not enough liquor to make that journey. And the manipulation of the personal business and sick days. The bullshit that people get away with. One employee in Florence Div. has some kind of record. Every week hes got cancer, headaches sore knees, you name it. or his wife has some debilitating disease. And forging dates on dr.s notes and no one seems to question it.He copys his altered document and sends it right from home. He even faked a jury duty notice once. Printed up fake papers at home. He is a part time employee getting to use and grossly abuse the full time benefits. All the running to the Emergency rooms and drs to get notes costs everyone else moremoney to make it up. This guys been pulling this shit for years. YEARS I am sure there is some one whos lower in seniority who would actually WORK and appreciate working. He has every ailment known to science. and when he feels like it he might show up to work and step on a train once a month. I hope he donates his body to science, hes a walking medical mystery. I have known many people come and go some worked and did their job, others were useless piles of shit, but at least they showed up. Some got fired for dumb shit while this fucker stares at his laptop 24-7 looking for ways to get off. I thought you could mark off sick certain numberof days month and then get a note. Personal business,and off sick EVERY WEEK! If this fat fuck is so sick hes a danger to anyone he works around. He could keel over any second and kill someone. Or get hurt and try to sue. Why is he not taken out of service? If you are so sick and "stressed" out . It aint from working. Or if your wifes sick how does that stop you from working. Three teenagers at home and they appear ust as useless as you are. Stepping on a train once a month is like chore to you. Instead you and your wife run to the Dr every chance you can. And the Drs love the insurance so they will run tests and do whatever to get the money. Real classy. How he still collects what little paycheck he does is shocking. I dont understand someone that dosent even put in enough time to earn vacation still has a job.And is quick to comment here with his two cents about everything. And brags about how hes a peice of shit basically. Copying and changing drs notes is fucked up. All it would take is a few following up and it would all be over. And telling people that you have cancer is more fucked up. If you did you wouldnt be a fat piece of shit. A little chemo and radiation would have made it possible to see your dick you fat shit. My brothers here on the railroad who work and do their jobs are sick of dealing with pieces of crap who will never earn the title employee, just sit home faking it. And clogging the turn that could be filled with an actual engineer. Instead if you. I only pray that someone actually does their job and checks into this crap. Cant miss him..... enough drs notes to fill 5 empties. all fake and forged. Well im off to got to work you shit

Name: jim bob E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 10-20 years Posted: 16 October 2011 I agree with you Lisa CSX sucks big time. Its like a communist dictatorship out here anymore.The attendance policy is such bull shit we are like slaves. The morale of the workers is the lowest Ive ever seen in my time working for this shit hole. the majority of the employees hate this piece of shit job. The unions are a sick joke. All they do is take our money and not do a f***ing thing for us.

Name: Occupy Wall Street E-mail: 1500to1earnings@rbarons.rr Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 14 October 2011 The occupy Wall Street protest is working. A vast majority understands that a democracy cannot sustain itself when CEO's are earning 2500% more than their lowest paid fellow employee!

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 1-10 years Posted: 12 October 2011 I do know one thing. You would have to be out of you mind, or have a gun pointed to your head for supporting the UTU! Back stabbing BASTARDS! Shame on you if you still pay dues to the UTU, they aren't looking out for you or your families, THATS A FACT! The contract they negotiated sold you up the river! I hope they sink fast & get what they deserve!

Name: RRJ E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 07 October 2011 NoMo I don't go on the unions sites anymore. Seeing I do own both CSX & NS stock most news pertaining to railroad related issues are on one or both. That's how I knew Obummer was going to create a PEB which I mentioned last week on a post. People need to know the facts even if the strike did occur it was limited to the national contract nothing else. cond Scuttlebutt rumors have been around as long as the railroad. If 93% of the BLE members voted for a strike it would of happened if Obummer wouldn't of invoked the RLA. I know in my area they were gearing up to set up picket lines. There's no such thing as a wildcat strike on the railroad at least one with unions blessings which would never happen. People say rail unions have no guts they need to do research the Railway Labor Act has been around since 1923 which is a major deterent. It took 3-4 years just to get to a point of a possible strike under the RLA. The 11 unions could of settled by accepting the UTU pattern. Now they still have a little time to settle if not the U.S. Congress might force a contract. It might be less than the UTU pattern it's happened before. If negotiations after the cooling off period stall both the railroads & unions will testify before a Congressional hearing pleading their case.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for Less than 1 year Posted: 07 October 2011 Actually guys I was out of town and just monitoring my email. I received an email last night saying the PEB has not been signed and a strike was still possible. Haven't had the opportunity to monitor other sites about the PEB being signed

Name: NoMo E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 07 October 2011 Hey RRJ: I've been gone a long time but I still occasionally look at the UTU and BLEt web sites...it amazes me how people with a vested interest in CSX and are union members are oblivious to events that can affect their lives. They seen to trust the scuttlebutt they hear at work and what they read on this sight!

Name: RRJ E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 07 October 2011 cond 1-10 You're an idiot. It's in the news just have to look it up Obummer signed the PEB yesterday.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 07 October 2011 I knew nobody had the balls to strike. The deal was if the PEB was not signed by 0001 the BLE was striking. I'm pretty sure nothing was signed at 0001 and csx is still operating like usual. Unions suck these days and the company will and can do what they want. There is tons of things that need changed in this company and the union just sticks around doing nothing making threats why the company laughs. I know the strike is over Health care but I'm just as pissed over putting in claim with the article number, page and agreement and the claim is still denied. Not to mention the Nazi attendance policy we are under.

Name: RealVet E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 07 October 2011 Mr. Ian - you are an idiot. You can't even get Monte's number right. HAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHA. LMAO at you dumbass. Maybe you can put some movement sensors on that rock you live under so when someone lifts it you can crawl deeper under it. What a poser.

Name: RRJ E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 07 October 2011 NoMo The short articles I read from AP, Reuters ect...were all on CSX and the other railroads stock page. I did read a short article last week that Obummer was going to enact a PEB by Oct 7th. The articles this morning all pointed to the pattern set by the UTU that will more than likely be forced upon the other unions. ScrewUTU has done it again. The sell out union afraid of it's own shadow. That's not to say the other unions are any better at least the BLE was the only one that went a step further with the strike vote. I'll give them credit for at least taking some action.

Name: NoMo E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 07 October 2011 Hey RRJ: It hasn't even made the front page of the MSNBC site yet. you have to search the site using "PEB"!

Name: RRJ E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 07 October 2011 Lisa The chances of striking at 0001 this morning we're a 50-50 shot. No one knew what Obama was going to do. The BLE was willing to strike so were the members under the Railway Labor Act it was taken out of their hands. Out of 11 unions the BLE was the only one to enact a strike vote. In my opinion several issues came in to play 1) to close to an election year 2) the economy 3) the present hatred for unions in this country to name a few to sum it up it was all national politics. We've been in recessions before been on strikes under both republican & democrat presidents. The proposed rail srike didn't even make headlines in the news yesterday or any other day. They made sure it was in the news when Obama created PEB 243. Most people in this country didn't have a clue anything was happening. As for the attendance policy the strike had nothing to do with it or any other concerns on CSX except healthcare.

Name: Lisa E-mail: Employed as: Brakeman, for 1-10 years Posted: 07 October 2011 A union that can't strike is not a union.. A union that allows suck an attendance policy is not a union. CSX-sucks, blet-sucks, utureally-sucks,

Name: NoMo E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 06 October 2011 Obama appoints PEB 243 to investigate BLET contract dispute CLEVELAND, October 6 — President Barack Obama today established Emergency Board (PEB) No. 243, to investigate and make recommendations for settlement of the current disputes between the Rail Labor Bargaining Coalition (RLBC) and five other unions, and the National Carriers Conference Committee (NCCC). The Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen (BLET) is one of the 6 unions that comprise the RLBC. The PEB is empanelled effective October 7, 2011. In total, the 11 rail labor unions involved in the dispute represent 75 percent of all rail workers in the United States who work for major Class 1 railroads. The five-member PEB now has 30 days to investigate the dispute and make recommendations to President Obama regarding a settlement of the contract disputes. There is another mandatory 30-day cooling off period that follows. It is expected that PEB 243 will begin hearings in Washington, D.C., within the next 10 days. If the PEB recommendations fail to lead to a voluntary settlement, then the parties would be free to engage in self-help once again at the expiration of the second 30-day cooling off period, which would be December 7, 2011. It is possible for Congress to intervene and legislatively mandate a settlement. If this is done, Congress typically would take the recommendations of the PEB and write them into law. President Obama appointed the following individuals to the PEB: Ira F. Jaffe, Chair; Roberta Golick, Member; Joshua M. Javits, Member; Gil Vernon, Member; and Arnold M. Zack, Member. The ongoing dispute over wages and health care benefits dates to early 2009 when negotiations began between the BLET and NCCC for a new collective bargaining agreement. The Railway Labor Act (RLA) governs contract negotiations between the parties. The appointment of the PEB comes at the close of the mandatory 30-day cooling off period, a step in the RLA process that began on September 6, 2011. That’s when the National Mediation Board (NMB) released the BLET and the 10 other RLBC unions from mediation with the rail carriers. At the expiration of the cooling off period, either party could have engaged in self-help: a strike by labor or a lock-out by management, at 12:01 a.m. EDT on Friday, October 7. To that end, the BLET conducted a strike authorization vote that concluded on October 3. An overwhelming 97 percent of BLET members voted in favor of the strike. In his message sending the Executive Order to all General Chairmen, President Pierce said, “I know that you were all prepared to assist the National Division in leading our members in a job action had it been necessary and legal. Please remember that the attached Executive Order effectively bars us from any form of self help until December 7, 2011. During the next 60 days, it is imperative that we continue our effort to strengthen our networks and remain vigilant to the fact that we may face circumstances similar to today’s on December 7th. "I speak for all of us here at the National Division in passing on our thanks for everyone’s continued support in our efforts to bring this bargaining round to a successful conclusion.” The RLBC is comprised of: Teamsters Rail Conference members BLET and the Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employes Division; the Brotherhood of Railroad Signalmen; International Brotherhood of Boilermakers; National Conference of Firemen and Oilers of the Service Employees International Union; and the Sheet Metal Workers International Association. The Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen represents 55,000 professional locomotive engineers and trainmen throughout the United States. The BLET is the founding member of the Rail Conference, International Brotherhood of Teamsters. President Obama’s Executive Order is available here: http://www.ble-t.org/pr/pdf/PEB_Executive_Order.pdf Thursday, October 06, 2011 bentley@ble.org

Name: abc E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 05 October 2011 B Edwards go fuck yourself

Name: Montgomery Ward E-mail: goinonstrike@cs-x.com Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 04 October 2011 A strike was authorized by 97% of the membership--which could happen in a few days. Much needed rest will be gotten...so too speak!

Name: Willy E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 28 September 2011 I like pete about as much as the next guy but putting that on here about his son Yo a Bitch

Name: RRJ E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 28 September 2011 That's pretty nasty. No one should talk about someones family.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Train Master/ supervisor, for 10-20 years Posted: 27 September 2011 If Pete Burrus was a descent human being maybe the good lord would have blessed him with a normal child.

Name: Economics 101 E-mail: $200millionceo@cs-x.com Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 27 September 2011 People...It's time to start figuring-out that management will not abide buy its moral obligations unless challenged by the union bosses. Management salaries is optimized by a bare minimum of TE&Y employees that requires constant distractions of discipline or threats thereof. The focus should be on the unions that you are paying dues to--not management! You cannot win a one man battle with the carriers without the support of your union! One less TE&Y employee hired is another $200,000 in the coffers of management and pass CEO's like Snow who's collecting $2.7 million annually in pension!

Name: Jake E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 30+ years Posted: 27 September 2011 Lysol doesn't kill this film that is caked on everything! It is a deceased environment and company sucks axcept it. For the attendance issue, try laying off for an aunt's funeral. It won't happen.

Name: BackBone Detected E-mail: Ohio Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 26 September 2011 Looks like a strike is highly possible. The International appears to have put fleecing FLEA Attorneys aside and now looking-out for the members. Maybe this will be the decade of leadership and change!

Name: NoMo E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 26 September 2011 Hey Loco 10-20: Sounds like my favorite joint!

Name: RRJ E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 26 September 2011 William you snuck back in. Hey, webmaster he's back.

Name: RRJ E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 26 September 2011 What???? Get yourself a container of Lysol wipes to clean the console ect...My only gripe was the pigs before me that left the locomotive a mess. Toilets are a whole lot better than they were years ago. They do have hand cleaners in the crew packs or buy your own. Todays society with there obsession with germs is crazy. Things must of changed the past few years if your finding feces & urine in the cab. I'd call that not properly toilet trained. I've read it all now. Thank's I needed a laugh.

Name: Union officials can take off E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years Posted: 26 September 2011 How can I not get sick? I work out in the rain and snow. I freeze and bake. The 4 am dampness is not healthy. Setting in an non-aircondition engine soaked with sweat during a sunny 95 degree day wears anyone down. These engines are filthy and germy. The toilet is ten feet from me where it is cleaned only by hosing it down with a hose as its contents run on the floor and splatters on the wall. My coworkers do not wash their hands due to lack of running water or laziness, touching everything, tracking feces and urine throughout the engine. The previous crews may have contagious illness that alcohol wipes will not kill. Did I metion the chemicals and smoke in this work environment. California says diesel smoke causes cancers. How can I not get sick? And the PTI vans and the losers that drive them ...? Oh the smell! CSX management does not care if I die at work or home. 1 day sick in 28 days? What illnesses only last 24 hours or should I say until midnight when the next calender day begins. After midnight, its 2 days sick and you will get a registered letter. I am their slave on demand 24-7 as the union only wants my money to give to overpaid union bosses living for socialism and not the employees. Heaven help me if my family gets sick also because CSX now breaks the fmla laws proudly. Striking only eliminates union income so the unions cannot do that. Stop blaming Reagan because the democrats wants us to keep on working to give to union coffers to support them.

Name: Proudly! Ian A. Murphy E-mail: ravensceo@ravenswoodinc.com Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 24 September 2011 First Amendment rights are invoked here. I would like to thank the gentleman who commented on my last comments graciously and with a bow. And once again, the crew that saved me from the swamp that PTI sent me to after 7.5 hours of downtime and drive time combined,..again a great big thank you! Ohh, and a special thanks to the PTI or is it CSX RAT squad and Monty Wheaton (812) 430-4450@14:00, gee so nice to know that you can count on your fellow employees to back you up From what I have discovered from the corporate culture of the chicken crap express or should I say common sense excluded Corporation that while they think that they're doing one thing correctly and there doing nothing more than creating difficulties and hell for all persons involved. As to the poor PTI drivers; most of your assumptions are correct but there are a few exceptions. PTI does not give a damn about their drivers at all in my professional and personal opinion.First Amendment rights are invoked here! They really don't quite care so long as those vehicles are running round the clock seven days a week 365 days a year just like the railroad and it seems just like me common sense excluded Corporation. Could someone please explain to me why it is required that there be zero accidents with the exception of the fact that corporate liability would then come into play and the simple fact that corporate stupidity is grossly evident by the suits who are hired out of college and have no idea how to run a railroad. The railroad looks great on paper and for the shareholders of which I am one. I do plan to be at that shareholders meeting and I do plan on bringing other shareholders with me and we will bring about change so that the employees have a say in their pensions and their healthcare costs and other costs that they must bear at this time. Please do remember something chicken shipped express; it takes one person to start a revolution and I am that person a will go ahead and start that revolution if I have to stand outside of every one of your yards on public property and I will have full audio and video surveillance with me at all times this way there is no discrepancy in the reports. It is time that someone stands up for these guys and takes his stand for them for they work hard and they are in danger every day because of your corporate policies and the simple fact that not one hand knows what the other hand is doing. Now I understand that none of use CSX employees can go ahead and jeopardize your jobs for this; but since I do not have to work; I can go ahead and stand outside of any yard and handout company corporate shares (preferred and common)and other things such as water, food, shares of stock and all will be courtesy of myself as a gift to make sure that this does not occur again. The days of the robber railroad barons are coming to a close very quickly and if corporate security wishes to go ahead and start an investigation into me why not call me and we can start playing games that way. I have a background in Full military technical surveillance and countermeasures background and the equipment to back it up. Got an OSCAR Green unit there boys, how about a CPM700, Got a broom (NLJ Detector) got multiple Spectrum Analyzers that goes from 0- to 300 GHz. Got Night vision, laser grid detectors, got any of it? Got bugs, fiber wiretaps, got ways to bypass spread-spectrum broadcasts. You have no clue! Nor do you have an allowance to even start against me. I am fully in support of CSX employees, but management just pure sucks! I don't think so and if so I have the countermeasures to flood your spectrum's with light, RF and Microwave to stop you while picking you up. you have a background in being a cinder dick as the saying goes. Don't worry I have high speed very long-range telephoto lenses I can take pictures of anything I want from anywhere I want and then of course there is Google Earth which by the way if you notice one of your particular yards to have a strip club near and and you can read the license plates on the cars in the strip club which means that I can read the license plates on the cars in the yards. Can you say electronic surveillance? Can you say satellite surveillance? Can you say information warfare? Can you say you are far beyond anything you ever dreamed of? I'll and by the way the joining a union so that I will have full access to the properties so that I may speak to various union members about their complaints. Have a nice day corporate security; I used to work for people like you and I know what sort of idiot you are. I'm out to help the workers you're out to screw the workers along with the Board of Directors. And let me add this I happened on over 100,000 shares of this railroad stock held in trust funds and there's not a damn thing you can do about it except maybe purchase me out. Remember what Gordon Gecko said: greed is good taking them over is better. And may the vote go forward and may you all succeed in shutting down this this disgusting Corporation and its attitude and its management. In addition I would like to bring to your attention that if you feel that you are getting into any of the buses and you see that any of the indicator lights are on then I would highly suggest that you not be bus out of service. This way maybe PTI will get the message when so many buses are taken out of service by crews that don't feel safe riding in the death mobiles. I'm so glad that I found this website and I will be buying the website master of beer, doughnuts and a meal at a five-star restaurant with the finest line possible for he is continued efforts to get the truth out. To that gentlemen I say bravo! And if anyone in corporate security wants to try me just remember I have better surveillance capabilities then you do and I am a professional computer hacker. Got it! I know more about you than you know about you. All I have to do is pick up a phone and tell them that you're attacking me. Next time you should do your background checks a little deeper and find out that I used to work in information warfare and intelligence. Not some funky ex-cop who got hired on as a railroad cinder dick looking for vagrants and the occasional box car broken into. That's why they call it insurance have a nice day boys and to my CSX brothers I say go for the strike and shut them down. But I expect that the federal government will get an injunction to stop you and that is a real shame. So maybe you should work by the rules, or if not don't work by the rules and document, document, document everything you do. Have a good day I hope you win.And just remember, I am on the boys side, not eh corporate side. I see how stupid the corporate side is. Bring it on! CSX can't run without employees and either can PTI. You just screwed with the wrong person.Remember you are always under surveillance. Or my corporate Motto: "Everyone is under surveillance and Security; Who's watching you?" @copyright 1984 And to the conductors and the IBLE nad the switchman and the yardmen, if you see One little bitty thing wrong with a bus, yank it out of service and watch PTI fix the things right. After all, rules are rules, are they not?????? Go IBLE, GO UTU, Go any other union that can shut them down for at least an hour; it will cost them millions! And one other thing, I not some poor kid desperate for a job, I went under cover to see just how bad it really is! And PTI, welcome to the new Federal Whistle Blower Law! The new law went into effect in 08/2011

Name: RRJ E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 24 September 2011 LE 10-20 I was suggesting that the matter was for the LC to handle. It wasn't critisism. If you've been on the railroad over 10 years then I'd expect you to know CSX's tricks. They've been blocking days for years. It isn't done locally CMC controls availability. It's definitely systemwide. What needs to be done is the LC and possibly the GC to get involved to put a stop to it. The quotas are negotiated by the local unions. As you stated in your terminal it was 1 slot till september I'm taking that it should of increased to 2 after the summer. The issue I brought up is the second slot being available but not showing up on the computer showing available. This became evident when I would look up who has the PL or DL day scheduled finding only one of the days was taken. CSX not showing the other available is a smart idea but unethical.

Name: Proudly! Ian A. Murphy E-mail: ravensceo@ravenswoodinc.com Employed as: Employed in other capacity, for Less than 1 year Posted: 23 September 2011 first off, I would like to thank the crew whose save me from the swamp that PTI put me in, in the first place. PTI is nothing more than a disgrace and a complete sham when it comes to driver training, driver competency and the simple fact that their vehicles are mechanically unsafe and unsound. PTI stands for nothing more than making a dollar and has absolutely no clue as to what they put their drivers through. The Tampa division has absolutely no leadership, no idea of what it's doing, and does not care with the exception of getting out the drivers to the crews stranded out in the middle of nowhere to rescue them while they had to rescue me. Sending drivers out after sitting for six hours of doing nothing and then to have them drive 1.5 hours to a location that they have absolutely no idea where it is; and then to only by the grace of what ever God being able to find a locomotive light on and walking through a swamp area screaming CXS,CSX, What radio code? the crew was kind enough to respond channel 84 and then informed me that there were alligators and diamondback snakes and rattlesnakes in the area that I was walking did not give me a comfortable feeling. I frankly don't give a hoot if corporate security or the cinder "dick" as railroad cops are known; (nothing more than glorified mall cops!) Even think if they can think. I learned more in a few days from the locomotive engineers and the conductors than I ever wish to know about an operation such as this railroad and its insane policies. Let us take for example the idiot train master or would it be the idiot yard master who was complaining about the way my vehicle was parked 300 yards away from any other vehicle. At three o'clock in the morning he comes out and sates what's wrong with this picture? I see absolutely nothing wrong with the picture; but he seems to point out that my vehicle was pointed in the wrong direction that it should have been rear in and nose out, not the way it was parked. In addition he was complaining that there was water dripping from the condensate line from the air-conditioning of the vehicle, inferring there could've been a slip and fall hazard. Well if someone is going to walk over 300 yards over gravel and dirt and sand and proceed to slip and fall then I would consider that to be grounds for stupidity. This lamebrain at the same time while I watched multiple bags of 50 pound ice bags being smashed at the front steps of the same building while there was multiple puddles of water and ice cubes which could create a slip and fall hazard was not addressed by this complete and total moron. Yes I was told that there are no addresses or names or physicality or GPS coordinates or latitude or longitude coordinates for any of these yards but it does seem interesting that Google Earth seems to have all this information available on the touch of a tablet, laptop, iPad, Annie's form of intelligent device that is able to access Google Earth. My deepest sympathies to both the CSX employees and to the PTI pasts current and future employees. Please be made aware that I personally will be filing a federal whistleblower lawsuit against CSX and PTI and made corporate security who have visited this website for well over 19,000 times enjoy the fact that I used to be a corporate security officer myself and not some mall cop. Yes you are a bunch of retired feds and other lower life forms of law and tried to get a job in the corporate world to supplement your income. To bad for you that you chose Csx for your place of employment. It seems that they will hire anyone to become a railroad cop let alone a yard master or a train master. And if you don't like my opinion then please look up the First Amendment.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years Posted: 23 September 2011 i wasnt coming on here to complain , but just checking on here to see if this is a problem system wide or just a local problem.all the days are blocked, they are not taken. they were alotting us 1 per day.up to the first week of september,they were in there.the local chairman already knows about the problem and says its in the laps of the general commitee.so its in the unions hands and has been for 2 weeks now with no results.

Name: RRJ E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 23 September 2011 CSX has been trying to block out DL & PL days on weekends for years. Go to your LC to get it corrected. CSX has to allow the quota that has been established wether it's one or two slots per day. That's what we had to do. It doesn't do any good to complain on this site. There are remedies. Are you sure that someone else hadn't already taken those days? One issue if two days were authorized an only one was requested the other wouldn't show up to be able to take on the computer. Calling CMC didn't always help to correct it. That's when trying to get the LC became necessary. The other trouble another co-worker blocking the day then if it turned out they were going to off any ways they would recind the request but it wouldn't show back up on the screen. I think they corrected that one by locking in the day 48 hours before to prevent it from happening.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years Posted: 22 September 2011 has anyone in any other terminal or division have there daily vacation days blocked out like on the albany division? jacksonville blocked them out due to a "man power shortage". i was under the impression that i was allowed to take 1 week of daily vacation days under the terms of the contract.as far as i know there is no small print in there stating as "there must be sufficent man power to take vacation days". i guess csx makes up there own rules that seems to suit there needs and wont honor agreements they sign. its in the union hands and im not getting my hopes up they will fix the problem! or maybe they will , like they took care of this absentee policy!!! im sure they will go after personal days next and the union will let them get away with it without a fight as they normaly do. wow i thougt it couldnt get worse, i guess i was wrong!!!!

Name: Did U Read Reply E-mail: Employed as: APE, for 1-10 years Posted: 21 September 2011 Did you all read the great article about CSX in this past issue of TRAINS Magazine? MAYBE CSX PAID THEM TO RUN IT OR SOMEONE CALLED IN A FAVOR. WHY THE HECK ARE YOU POSTING ON HERE ? TO SUCK UP ??????? -50 POINTS YOU FAIL!!!!! Sure seems like a company thats (punctuation -1)moving for the better. Micheal(spelling deduction -2) Ward is doing a great job running the company. HE HAS DONE SOMETHINGS BETTER THAN OTHERS BEFORE HIM BUT HE HIRED THE NAZI CRIMINALS TO RUN TRANSPORTATION FIRE OLD EMPLOYEES HIRE NEW ONES AT 80 PERCENT AND FIRE THEM TOO KEEP EVERYONE IN FEAR OF YOUR JOB. HIRE YES MANAGERS WHO KNOW NOTHING BUT WILL DO ANYTHING TO KEEP THEIR JOB AND GIVE THEM A CARROT UPPER MANAGEMENT CAN STEAL THE BIG BONUSES AND TAKE CREDIT FOR WORKING THE DOG SHIT OUT OF EVERYONE ELSE. So why the need for such a negetive (spelling deduction -2) website? BECAUSE THIS NAZI OUTFIT HAS FUCKED OVER SO MANY PEOPLE AND RUN A UNSAFE OPERATION THAT LIES AND COVERS UP ANYTHING AND EVERYTHING. IT IS FRAUD AND CORRUPTION. NOW YOU KNOW WHY CSX-SUCKS.COM EXISTS. YOU HAVE TO HAVE SOME BALLS TO POST ON THIS SITE TOO. CSX MANAGERS RUN THEIR OPERATIONS BY READING POST ON HERE. THEY FEAR SOMEONE TO WRITE ANYTHING ABOUT THEM SINCE JACKSONVILLE KEEPS TABS ON EVERY POST ON HERE.

Name: Did you read? E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 21 September 2011 Did you all read the great article about CSX in this past issue of TRAINS Magazine? Sure seems like a company thats moving for the better. Micheal Ward is doing a great job running the company. So why the need for such a negetive website?

Name: RRJ E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 21 September 2011 The unwritten rule was go to work sick recuperate in lodging. Don't waste marking off sick on really being sick.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 21 September 2011 i know when i m sick and a potential danger to myself and others if i work. why should i be disciplined under those circumstances? that shouldnt mean i should have to run to a doctor to get an "excuse" ever had the flu and not go to a doctor? feel like going to work under those conditions? by the way, i take a flu shot at the v a hospital. i dont want to get sick or miss work, but guess what, "s**t happens" we lose pay when we don t work. that's incentive enough for any self respecting t & e employee to do the right thing. what is management's attendance policy in jacksonville? being salaried employees do they lose pay when they miss a few days sick? HELL NO! csx should look at attendance over a period of time, say a year, for patterns of conduct (it might find that some abuse attendance, but that others have legitimate reasons that a SKILLED HR employee sould be able to review and understand). they should not threaten you as they do now for more than one day a month. and what about us older guys? we work good but are more subject to aches, pains, and illnesses than younger men. no consideration here either.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: APE, for Less than 1 year Posted: 20 September 2011 it's maYbe,,, MAYBE MAyBE..MAYBE

Name: RRJ E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 20 September 2011 NoMo Most of the TM's 85% when I left were hired off the street the few that came out of the crafts had mabey one year in service before crossing over to the darkside. RFE's are the only ones in management that have to come out of the crafts and be FRA certified. I'm not sure but I seem to recall they had to have at least 3 years as a working engineer. The UTU might like to cross the picket lines but they can't.

Name: NoMo E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 20 September 2011 Hey RRJ: I guess it was back in '01, I remember all the RFEs and TMs qualifying or re-qualifying on the NO&M, M&M, PD and PA. Back in that day 90% of the TMs came from the crafts and 60% of those were LEs. I may be wrong but I don't think it's like that anymore. If for no other reason, showing CSX how vulnerable the business is due to their hiring practices, might make a short strike worth it. I would hope the UTU would honor the picket lines but recent history tells me they have their own agenda...I wouldn't trust them further than I could throw them!

Name: RRJ E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 20 September 2011 NoMo They'll honor the picket lines. A lot of good it would do to cross them road trains couldn't go anywhere. Even an engineer in the UTU-E falls under the BLEt contract. Management placed at the helm of a train is hysterical. I've seen it before tearing up trains all over the place not knowing how to work an industry ect...About 5-6 years ago Dominion Virginia Power was on strike we took the train to place at the power plant to the picket lines and got off refusing to cross. The strikers cheered. The RFE & 3 TM's got onboard to place the coal. A job that would of taken an hour took them 4 1/2. When they came back light for us to go back pick up the other half of the train when we got back the RFE was white as a sheet. He told me to tell the strikers he was alright apparently they threatened to kick his arse. lol. Heck we had a good time the strikers fed us some good BBQ gave us hats & t-shirts.

Name: NoMo E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 19 September 2011 I just wonder if the UTU will honor the picket lines if there should be a strike?

Name: RRJ E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 19 September 2011 The UTU has already settled with the NCCC. The issue with the other 11 unions they're not buying into a UTU pattern contract the carriers are trying to force on them. UTU has always been the first ones to settle that's been going on for decades. When the BLE went on strike in 1982 the UTU already settled their contract. The BLE's punishment for striking when thing were done we didn't get personal leave days like the UTU. It took another 15 years before we got PL days. In Jan 1983 the only time I ever got cut back to a trainmen I worked one trip then asked the TM seeing I'm cut back if I was eligible for trainmen PL days he told me why not so he gave me all 7 days. After they were used up the next week I was marked back up as a locomotive firemen.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 1-10 years Posted: 19 September 2011 The UTU has already shown there true colors. They aren't looking out for our best interest, they just keep passing on the same line...."Its a good deal"! Company's posting record profits & the UTU continues to sell out the membership.

Name: NoMo E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 19 September 2011 Hey RRJ: What's even more interesting is the UTU stance on this matter. The wedge may get driven even deeper!

Name: RRJ E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 19 September 2011 Those LE's on CSX would only be striking over healthcare. The SSA took care of anything else. The NCCC had offered the 11 unions a freeze on healthcare premiums. This won't affect other issues like attendance policies ect...Article I read last week Obama most likely was going to appoint the PEB by Oct 7th. It'll become a matter of politics. After the fray in Wisconsin a lot of people in this country hate unions. Public sentiment before an election year. Hopefully Obama doesn't cave in. You never know last good BLE strike was in 1982 under Raygun. We were out for 4 days before Raygun ordered us back to work. It's strange times we are living in.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 1-10 years Posted: 18 September 2011 ITS ABOUT TIME!!!!!!! BLET to hold strike authorization vote CLEVELAND, September 16 — In a conference call held with all BLET General Chairmen yesterday morning, National President Dennis R. Pierce announced that preparations are underway to poll members to authorize a strike in the event one becomes necessary to attain the Organization’s bargaining goals. The National Mediation Board released the BLET and several other Rail Labor unions from mediation with rail carriers on September 6, triggering a 30-day cooling off period, which expires at 12:01 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time on October 7, 2011. At that point self-help is available to the parties, unless President Obama appoints a Presidential Emergency Board (PEB) pursuant to Section 10 of the Railway Labor Act. A PEB would halt any strike or lock out by the parties, and would investigate and issue a report and recommendations concerning the dispute. BLET members who are employed on the railroads where the dispute exists and where the BLET has representation rights for their craft are eligible to participate in the strike authorization vote. The following members may participate in the vote: • All active locomotive engineers, except company officers, employed by the Belt Railway Company of Chicago. • All active locomotive engineers, except company officers, employed by BNSF Railway. • All active locomotive engineers, except company officers, employed by Consolidated Rail Corporation. • All active locomotive engineers, except company officers, employed by CSX Transportation. • All active locomotive engineers, except company officers, employed by the Indiana Harbor Belt Railroad Company. • All active locomotive engineers, except company officers, employed by Kansas City Southern Railway Company, including the following subsidiaries: Kansas City Southern Railway; Louisiana and Arkansas Railway; MidSouth Rail Corporation; Gateway Western Railway; SouthRail Corporation; and Texas Mexican Railway Company (locomotive engineers and train service employees). • All active locomotive engineers, except company officers, employed by Longview Switching Company. • All active locomotive engineers, except company officers, employed by Norfolk Southern Company. • All active locomotive engineers, except company officers, employed by Portland Terminal Railroad Company. • All active locomotive engineers, except company officers, employed by Soo Line Railroad Company d.b.a. Canadian Pacific. • All active locomotive engineers, except company officers, employed by Union Pacific Railroad Company. • All active locomotive engineers, except company officers, employed by Winston Salem Southbound Railway Company. Beginning early next week, these members will receive a mailing from TrueBallot with toll-free voting instructions. Voting will begin at 11:00 a.m. EDT on Tuesday, September 20, and members will have until 10:00 a.m. EDT on Monday, October 3 to cast their votes. Authorization does not mean a strike will occur, nor does it mean that all railroads polled may be struck. The BLET National Division has retained TrueBallot, Inc., to conduct the strike authorization vote via telephone. TrueBallot, which is a nationally-renowned election service provider, previously conducted a membership initiative election for the BLET in 2010. National President Pierce urged all BLET members who receive a notice from TrueBallot to vote. “While we anticipate that President Obama will appoint a Presidential Emergency Board near the deadline, we must be prepared for all eventualities,” he said. “Now is the time for all BLET members to deliver a unified message to the carriers that we will not stand for shifting health care costs to the backs of older and sick workers and families with children, and that our wage increases should better reflect our members’ contributions to the industry’s record profits.”

Name: cd E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 17 September 2011 no good fat ass lc lays off union on a Saturday after being on vacation for 2 weeks causes me to be pulled off my job to fill his

Name: RRJ E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 15 September 2011 It's definitely changed out there these days. 3-4 years ago trying to get FMLA was nearly impossible. You could get a doctor to complete the forms but CSX medical department had to approve it. I know that first hand I was denied it by CSX in 2007. The FMLA request application was to be able to help my Mom after she became ill She resided 600 miles from me. Apparently today the culprit has to be U.S Labor Department. They would of had to recieve complaints from CSX employees being denied FMLA which would of led then to an investigate.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 14 September 2011 What bothers me about the attendance policy is all these people on FMLA that misses 10x the work I do. I get sick and miss 2 days in a month and I got a letter. What makes it worse is when you have personal things you need to get done at home and can't get a Personal Business. CSX has you by the balls with this attendance policy. I had a family emergency and ask for a PB day. I took a sick day 21 days ago. I explained to the crew caller the situation I was in. He showed no sympathy for me and told me I need to do what I needed to do. This will make the 2nd letter for me and I've missed a total of 5 days the last 7 months. Only days I get off is when I catch the Federal Mand. days and that is rare. Makes me sick when I see guys laying off FMLA for 2-4 days and even weeks at a time and not get anything. The attendance policy is actually hurting people that work and can't get FMLA because all the lazy people who take off every weekend is still taking off with FMLA.

Name: RRJ E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 11 September 2011 The UP came up with an agreement that furloughed employees could be placed on a furlough retention board it gaurenteed $2000 a month which kept their benefits intact. They would be on call for two weeks out of the month for work. The other two weeks they could collect RRB unemployment or work elsewhere. CSX wanted to establish a similiar program not sure why it never panned out. It only would benefit those already marked up promoted. The UP along with the other railroads had to suspend hiring during that time period. UP still has people furloughed in some areas in the southwest. They aren't doing a lot of hiring neither is the NS. The two class 1's railroads hiring are the BNSF & CSX. The one area the UP is hiring which apparently they can't get a lot of takers is in Wyoming.

Name: RRJ E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 11 September 2011 slack action Having met Ballentine and with everything you've described. I'm sure she played the race card with CSX being forced off the desk then demanding a promotion. I don't like using that as an accusation but in her case I'll make an exception. Witnessing first hand her personality she's capable of anything.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 10 September 2011 RRJ, As I recall the UP kept everyone during the 08 debaggle. I am not sure of the particulars. CSX sent them home.

Name: slack action E-mail: Employed as: M of W, for 10-20 years Posted: 10 September 2011 RRJ: Miss Ballentine worked the WA side ( the old AI job). She was then restricted to work the Baltimore Chief job because she could not dispatch. She pushed and pushed for a promotion, so they finally promoted her in crew mgt just to get her out of the dispatching center before she hurt somebody. She was a real piece of work, as you well know.

Name: RRJ E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 09 September 2011 ooh323 The railroads wouldn't be in this fix being short handed if the recession of 2008 hadn't occured. Railroads had to stop training by early 2009 the new hires were let go most never came back on a recall. I remember when local management had to call all the trainees on OJT in to turn in their gear their services were no longer needed. Should CSX have allowed them to finish training? Most definitely. Not that it would of done any good but it would of at least allowed them to establish a promotion date of conductor seniority. The railroads have had to rehire & train since. CSX this year alone hired over 4000 people so far with hopefully another 500 by years end. The other railroads are in the same mess.

Name: ooh323 E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years Posted: 09 September 2011 Shippers cite lack of train crews in deteriorating rail service (Source: Journal of Commerce, September 8, 2011) WASHINGTON, D.C. — Rail service has slipped because of bad weather and cost-cutting that have left railroads without enough train crews to operate trains or switch railcars frequently, shippers told an investment bank conference on Wednesday. According to the Journal of Commerce, railroads trimmed workforces during the recession and haven’t restored crews quickly enough. It's just a matter of time and all TE will blamed for this. We know where the problem is. It's past time to strike we have guys getting fired for attendance that live out here. We point no fingers at the local level for the most part we have some great men and women but the international is a freaken joke take my money play golf with the carriers and need another 35bucks to move thats a lot of money to move sounds like your lining your po ckets

Name: CorrUPtion Blogger E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 09 September 2011 A strike at least 2 days could seriously disrupt Railroad operations and could restore a "little" credibility in--international, general, and local leadership. The recently ratified UTU agreement is nothing but comparing apples to oranges over healthcare cost. The healthcare cost could easily be absorb by the 20-fold pay increases to Railroad executives over the past few years when wages were going in opposite directions. The membership got looted of leadership during the times of international (from both unions) indiscretions and the carriers took advantage of that and now the carriers is taking advantage of the current political leadership crisis. Once again: The combined accumulated wealth of the top CEO's is over 1 BILLION DOLLARS. Why can't that be exploited when negotiating a contract? That's enough money to pay for all the employee contributions for the next 30 years. TE&Y members working in a demanding hazardous environment of train operations should be compensated--not degraded as a normal occupational hazard! Use your unique skills as leverage; not as a submission to Robber Barons! May God bless the family of the conductor killed in a switching accident reported today by: UTU.org.

Name: RRJ E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 09 September 2011 Striking might become a reality. Still along way to go with cooling off periods. Obama could establish a PEB or let congress force the contract. Still to many "ifs". It has nothing to do with anything but cost of healthcare increases. It doesn't address any other concerns. Most class 1's with the exception of the UP that might have changed have on-property contract agreements. I don't understand why healthcare is the only national agenda left that too could of been included in an on-property. I guess the national feels they have to do something for their wages.

Name: Joe T. Plummer E-mail: rrstrike.com Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 09 September 2011 Imminent strike looming for at least one day....In the mean time; take all pit stops needed for personal health! Bring back the good old days of unity and trumping greed!

Name: CorrUPtion Blogger E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 08 September 2011 Lay-Off restrictions: A "day" constitute a 24 hour continuous time period....If your union allows that to be cut in half; you need stronger leadership. Lay-off issues seems to be the prevailing problems for most of the complainers. You all are pissing in the wind if you don't change leadership. One less hired American is an additional thousands into the pockets of the Robber Barons! America is a great country with doctors and lawyers on both sides of the isle!

Name: 0za178 E-mail: Employed as: Brakeman, for 1-10 years Posted: 07 September 2011 RRJ you're right thats what happened like i said i like my job but something needs to change. i cant imagine losing my job out over attendance when i live out here but i guess it can happen

Name: RRJ E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 07 September 2011 You must of crossed over into another calender day with the 17 hrs. Read the fine print. CSX considers it 2 days. I don't get it but found out the difficult way that they consider a day within the confines of 0001-2359. If you marked off at 1700 but didn't mark back up till 1000 the next morning it's consider two days unavailable it's not based on hours.

Name: 0za178 E-mail: Employed as: Brakeman, for 1-10 years Posted: 06 September 2011 got a letter today in the mail. i was off a total of 17hrs sick in a 28 day period i had over 20 starts other than the 17hrs off worked part of every day or was in a hotel no off day, no off fmla, no union off, no company off, no pb off i like my job i like the money but this is out of control no one with a brain would think this is right

Name: RRJ E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 06 September 2011 slack action Ballentine was a TD? I couldn't imagine that one. She definitely isn't a people person. When we had our heated discussion she mentioned a conductor whose wife passed away he had 3 small children. He had been off work around 20 days and she was sending out a registered letter under the attendance policy for taking to much time off. That's when I hit the roof told her she spouts this Christian BS but apparently hasn't a clue to it's meaning. It didn't surprise me in 2006 especially 2007 when my Mom became ill I was traveling 600 miles one way to take care of her needs. In 2007 I had 5 registered letters from her on attendance after I exhausted my vacation & PL days. Lucky the BLE LC & RFE stopped 4 of them under the circumstances but on the 5th I said screw it and took overhead for 6 months. When my Mom passed away later that year I was off 8 days Ballentine stated that was excessive. I hit the roof again explaining travel time, making funeral arrangements ect....it didn't phase her. She haven't a clue or a heart.

Name: slack action E-mail: Employed as: M of W, for 10-20 years Posted: 06 September 2011 RRJ: You think Miss Linda Ballentine is a piece of work now, you should have seen her when she was a train dispr. Her famous saying was "I can't take that train."

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Brakeman, for 20-30 years Posted: 06 September 2011 Any normal person hate this Nazi Brownshirt management. Brown keeps the pressure on everyone more than Ingram. It is true Davey" Inventor of the NS Shitbag on the Nazi Southern" is worst and needs to go NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Ward should go down with him and clean this shithole out. Who is next to be fired, killed or injured on the CHicken Coop Express. Fedup with Nazi Brownshirt Management

Name: RRJ E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 06 September 2011 That's right screw the hand that feeds you. With the way the economy is going I'd be working everything putting a lot in savings. Scary times right now. Short handed? Why? Websites like Railroad.net employment forum CSX is hiring like crazy. REDI is running at full capacity. Conductor, trackmen, signal maintainers ect...all are training. CSX has hired over 4000 people this year with another 500 waiting for a start date. Unless the economy improves I hope it doesn't end up like 2008-2009 with massive furloughs. Then CSX has to go thru hiring all over again. It's not entirely CSX fault. The attendance problem that's baffling the unions need to get up off their arses. There are problem people that should be getting letters others shouldn't. It should be based on the individual but CSX took control out of local management hands and left it up to one person in the CMC building in JAX. It use to be Ballentine I don't think she's in that position anymore. I met her in 2008 while setting up the implementation of the BLE bid system for my division. She was a piece of work. We got into a shouting match. She went totally by CSX guidelines no deviation. If your letter was just a warning then don't worry about it. Friends with over 30+ years are getting the same.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 1-10 years Posted: 06 September 2011 I work my ass off, always have, and never abused my attendance since working for CSX. Now I receive a letter stating that I am in violation of the attendance policy for marking off 1 1/2 days. I HATE THIS COMPANY! I'm also getting sick of hearing upper management ask "Whats the problem with the employees & the morale?" We have been short handed all year because these idiots didn't hire enough people, now we are to blame? My advice to people is to screw this company every chance you get! Remember, they aren't your friend!

Name: RRJ E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 06 September 2011 Spongebob Tell me it isn't so. You're complaining about people getting time off no matter which way they do it. Requirements for FMLA must of gotten soft since I retired. 4-5 years ago it was difficult to get an application approved. Is it that big of a problem? It always had the potential to be one. I only knew one person to abuse it. His wife had MS he applied got it but she didn't even know about it. He was taking off every weekend told his wife he was on a work train. No one cared back then coal business was slow. I guess if you had 9-10+ people like him it would be a problem. It puts the burden on everyone else with exhausted extra boards then CMC calls to find/force people to run up ect...

Name: CorrUPtion Blogger E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 04 September 2011 "Labor Day" should be change to "Corporation Day." Infowars.com

Name: spongebob E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years Posted: 03 September 2011 It's about time CSX started cracking down on FMLA layoffs. Granted there is a lot of employees who really have a need for this policy, but there is also a lot of abuse going on.

Name: RRJ E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 02 September 2011 Well, you hurt my feelings. I was going to let you shine my shoes but forget it. Keep crying you took the job knowing the situation. Go work a remote job then you'll get double time and a half on the holiday. Working straight time had been around before I ever hired on. You wouldn't know that would you. As for the union I can gaurentee you've only been to one or two meetings clueless on everything. I was a BLE union officer as a VLC for much of my career. Attended every meeting if I wasn't working. You're right quit!!! Walmart is hiring. Can you say "do you want to super size that order?". lol. Keep working paying into RRB I like that retirement check every first of the month. You don't get it.

Name: lovenit E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years Posted: 02 September 2011 It's Friday I'm in the hotel, it's labor day weekend. I'll work today for regular pay. I'll work Saturday for regular pay.. I'll work Sunday for regular pay. I'll get to work Labor day for regular pay. O yeah its a union job. RRJ I know I know I cant quit no ones holding a gun to my head. Wal-mart, taco bell, mcdonalds, the blood bank, they're hiring.. Men like you with that mentaliy has killed the real union men. I find it hard to believe you worked out here for 30yrs you must have been a safety sucker.

Name: RRJ E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 02 September 2011 Cond 1-10 Of course CSX is going to thin out the gaurentee extra boards if they start paying out. It's been going on since they were established. The BLET LC goes thru fights with local management all the time for not enough people. CSX loves nothing more than cutting engineers back then forcing them to work as engineers. When things get slow a lot of oldheads jump on the boards work a couple days a half and collect. Non-gauretee boards is what we started out on back in the '70s & '80s it was "feast or famine" you're not going thru anything we haven't experienced. I worked places in Ohio back in the '70s that didn't have reverse lodging agreements lost money trying to keep a job paying my own expenses. This was before CSX when it was Chessie System and working for the C&O. The railroad hasn't changed much it's always been a struggle. The biggest difference today is reduced crews no one starts out as a brakemen or firemen anymore to have someone show them the ropes over the fisrt couple of years.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 1-10 years Posted: 01 September 2011 Guarantee is only paid to Rooster Fishers and Favorite Pets. Sometimes you might luck out and collect but there is always a Rooster Fisher on the other end of the computer to deny anything they can to get their little carrot on the stick bonus. As Always CSX Rooster Fish Company Policy

Name: CSX E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 01 September 2011 RRJ While csx does have guarantee boards they are mostly crap. The daily guarantee boards they will deny your guarantee being marked up and available 1 day per week (give back day). Basically they will cut the board thin enough you will only draw atleast 1 maybe 2 days per week if it slows down. Work on another subdivision that doesn't have a guarantee board. So basically when it slows down your stuck in a damn hotel 2-3 days a week and not making anything. So its basically pick your poison where I work. You can go to a guarantee board and they will take it away from you or you can get on a non guarantee board and risk making no money. Not to mention marking off 2 weekdays a month and getting a letter from the company. I would love to have the 5 weekdays, 2 weekend days off a month. That is a great policy compared to the crap we have.

Name: mule E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years Posted: 31 August 2011 csx is raising hell about the 50% increase on fmla lay off in the last year wonder what brought that on sn 108 maybe im an uneducated basterd but these guys running this place need to be fired

Name: RRJ E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 27 August 2011 I want to thank the webmaster for finally getting rid of William. At least I hope he has been banned from this site. I don't care if people don't want to read my post but he was becoming annoying without ever posting anything other than his trash. We need more fouled mouth people banned that don't contribute. Those people make CSX employees look foolish.

Name: RRJ E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 27 August 2011 APE Thank's for the correction. One must learn something new everyday even though I knew it already that's what happens when you don't proof read. Glad to see you might be smart enough to actually read a contract plus the work agreements things you're voting on in a proposed contract ect...others they just look at the $$$$. Then when they find out what they lost to get that increase they want to cry over spilled milk. The other issue the unions like national voting thinks it's a great turnout when 50%-60% vote. Imagine that only up to 60% vote on contracts. Where's the other 40%? They don't have a right to complain if they felt they got screwed. They'll never admit they didn't vote. That would make them look stupid. Union meetings went to this months meeting it had been 18 months since the last time I'm retired. The same 10-12 people were at the meeting. Heck they voted on at least 4 local agreement changes so 10-12 people changed it for everyone else.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: APE, for 1-10 years Posted: 26 August 2011 Isnt it nice working weekends for straight pay, our union fore fathers, would roll in their grave if they knew it had came to this. Way to go CSX, you have beaten the unions.

Name: . E-mail: Employed as: APE, for Less than 1 year Posted: 26 August 2011 The is no such word as "mabey". The word is spelled " maYbe" and pronounced as may'bee not mab'bee. Just some food for thought.

Name: RRJ E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 26 August 2011 I figured it out William you don't work for CSX. You're that little kid that post on here every now and then. I pretty much already knew that within minutes of any of my post on this attendance thread there you go with "YO a bitch". lmfao. Stay in school sonny if you aren't already a dropout with your current education level McDonalds or Taco Bell wouldn't even hire you to mop & clean toilets. It's unusual for me to be on here this time a day mostly I'm only on in the early morning today it's checking on Hurricane Irene.

Name: RRJ E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 26 August 2011 Poor Poor Pitiful Babies!!! Cond 30+ I'm retired from CSX moron. Vietnam Vet I doubt it mabey Vietnam Era Vet. I'm a Vietnam Combat Veteran. I served in the U.S Marine Corps in the thick of it served proudly 1971-1974. Sonny. Being that Veteran got me my job on the railroad. I would think someone with 30 years out here would have some brains but you have shown otherwise dumb is dumb. Everything I wrote was correct you should know that if you actually are a 30 year railroader. I earned my right to post on this site. At one time it was informational but times have changed now it's just a bunch of whiners that haven't got a clue. Besides I bet none of you have ever sent the webmaster a dime. Every now and then I do give him money to keep this site open. So, in essence I got more rights on here then any of you. It's a good site to bad there's always idiots in the bunch. That's especially true for "YO William" still trying to figure out what it means. Go back to school. Not get your dumb arses back to work. I'll glad to sit at home every first of the month RRB deposits my check and it's a wonderful life.

Name: 00h323 E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 26 August 2011 We may not be able to strike but everyone could get a stomach virus on the same day. RRJ YO A BITCH. I would think RRJ you could use a few days off to let those knees of yours heel

Name: CorrUPtion Blogger E-mail: ill gotten gains Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 26 August 2011 Accumulated wealth of top Railroad Executives: James A. Young...$500,000,000.00 = shares held at 554,209 Do the math on the following...need more interaction from viewers. Michael J. Ward...252,675 shares Charles W Moorman...206,382 shares Matthew K. Rose...(BNSF) private company but estimated wealth $200,000,000.00 Sorry for the ones not listed! They haven't reached the $100,000,000.00 yet! Majority of the wealth was accumulated during the last decade while trying to maintain "deregulation." How many friends do you have furloughed and have lost jobs to sub-contractors at the CEO's expense? Si! Source: Yahoo Finance (company symbol) "Insider Roster."

Name: RRJ E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 26 August 2011 There we go two prime examples of stupidity. More to come I'm sure. Ungrateful little kids never learned to become men mostly never will. Go home to mommy mabey she'll give you a tit to suck on.

Name: RRJ E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 26 August 2011 Oza123 Read your own statement about BNSF it states 5 week days 2 weekend days a month if no assigned rest days. You people blame the union but this all came about so extra boards could have gaurentees. NS has a strict attendance policy but they don't have gaurentees. That makes CSX a better place to work. Local strike never happen. It's against federal law under the Railway Labor Act. The media why would they care there's no story when some disgruntled railroaders making more money than two families put together complain because they work to much when 20 million are without jobs. I think the railroad needs to be like it was 30+ years ago furlough low seniority employees every year for around 3-5 months the first 3-10 years let them appreciate what they have let them starve for a while seems to many are unappreciative of how fortunate they are to have a job and work for the railroad. The other option quit. You people even have perks with stock if you maintain the attendance policy which I was at this months union meeting and their increasing it to 60 shares. Let's not forget yearly up to 12% productivity bonuses on top of a job that pays $60,000-$130,000 a year for someone without an eduction. Railroaders never had a life it hasn't changed only thing that has is the charector of those hired.

Name: evans E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years Posted: 25 August 2011 00h323 You're right I believe a lot of men feel this way.. We need to stick this policy up Pete's ass.. I think most would strike in some form or another. The Indiana boys are sick of this shit.

Name: 00h323 E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 25 August 2011 We are the union. Its up to us to do something about this availability policy. Its obvious the national isnt doing anything they have had a year to get this changed. We need to organize at the local level and shut the railroad down. Then we may get a better policy.

Name: 0za123 E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 20-30 years Posted: 25 August 2011 "Here is how things work on BNSF... You will not be allowed additional time off while in training, unless there is some unforeseen emergency. Once marked up, you will be subject to attendance policy. If you work the extra board without assigned days off, you can mark off 5 week days and 2 weekend days per month. In other words, you will have no problem getting 2 days off." HOLY COW !!!! That sounds incredible. I can't believe BNSF has that policy. That has got to be the envy of every NS and CSX employee from what I've read. 5 week days and 2 weekend days per month !!! Boy I was hoping maybe NS would have something like 3 maybe 4 days total one could mark off. That's incredible from everything I've read. I guess that's why it's so hard to find anyone posting anything negative about working for BNSF. I still can't believe that monthly policy. csx does suck and our union sucks worse for putting up with attendance policy

Name: CorrUPtion Blogger E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 23 August 2011 "Intimidated no more; Libyans (Americans) end Gaddafi's (Corporate America's) rule!" Media

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 10-20 years Posted: 22 August 2011 when cell phones got banned? the dispatching went to hell! you figure it out yet? rotflmao! its not in Chicago budget to run things right! they cant take care of their own? much less look out for all the crews coming into Chicago? it might affect their bonus? cabs yup the kids are still waiting up to 90 minutes for a ride? not in all cases! so? when ya get stickman? go restricted speed a very safe speed at all times okay? get it? slow is safe? safe is good! watch out when doubling up in cabs! its your ass in court if ya get in an accident? especially if four or more are in the cab ! SO KEEP DOING FAVORS , SCREW YOURSELF AND YOUR FELLOW MAN? STAY BUDDY BUDDY WITH THE BOSSES? KEEP THAT BONUS GOING INTO THEIR POCKETS?

Name: Bubba E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 22 August 2011 Litle rRj u besst not poste on hear agian u wont gettin nonen

Name: RRJ E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 22 August 2011 Let's see here we have William & the fake me. Then people wonder why CSX treats their employees like little children those two are fine examples. This week there's a CSX retirees reunion with Mike Ward present. I've got the right question for him why not institute "time outs" seeing these young boys might understand it. Mabey a "sniveling & dribbling room" that might work. If ya'll want to be treated like children then CSX should go for it.

Name: CorrUPtion Blogger E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 22 August 2011 Corporate CEO's....Be a patriot! Give-up your ill-gotten gains through fraud, deceit, union payoffs, lobbying politicians, corporate welfare, and greed. A "democracy" as we know it; cannot sustain such corporate malfeasance and expect to survive! "Ten million dollars is better in the hands of 100 Americans than 1 corporate CEO." Ralph Nader

Name: RRJ E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 21 August 2011 My boyfriend said I can't post on here.. Nice to meet all of you I'm signing off..

Name: RRJ E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 20 August 2011 Slack you did a fine job. People need to hear the truth. If someone doesn't like it leave. Some people feel they're owed more than a paycheck. Lloyd stated this site for venting? I haven't read a serious gripe on here in a while. Lloyd wonders why someone hasn't gone postal and started shooting the place up. After going to a union meeting earlier this month there was one individual that could meet that criteria. He snivled and whined about how he couldn't stand it that he had no time at home I thought he was going to break down and cry. I told him he has an option "QUIT" no one forced anyone into this lifestyle there free to leave anytime they want quit acting like a baby. He babbled on about his nerves being shot some bullschidt like that I lost interest. It's taking responsibility for your own self. They can blame CSX. taco bell, mcdonalds. pizza hut ect....some people are never going to be content.

Name: Lloyd E-mail: Employed as: Brakeman, for 10-20 years Posted: 20 August 2011 Hey Slack, don't be the second coming of RRJ. The fact that there are other jobs out there or the phrase "you should be lucky you have this job" are very played out. I'm fairly certain most of the guys who work for CSX are thankful they have the benefits and pay they get but are also sick and tired of the intimidation, fear tactics, and work schedule they have. Also, if all a man has is this site to vent on then by all means, I'd rather read his bullshit here than read about him shooting innocent victims because this company drove him off the edge. Hell, everyone I talk to anymore just wonders when someone is gonna snap out here and I know its just a matter of time. God help us all when it happens thats all I have to say because innocent people will die.

Name: evans E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years Posted: 18 August 2011 Pete has all those girls on their knees. Someone needs to drop a dime to ethics. You didn't know Pete was a flaming homo?

Name: 00h323 E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 17 August 2011 Hey evans, what do u mean the rfm got promoted the hard way?

Name: NoMo E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 17 August 2011 Hey RRJ: The shotgun maybe loaded and cocked!

Name: RRJ E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 17 August 2011 Definitely an unplanned wedding. Your future hubby could of submitted his vacation request earlier this year if had ample time then when the vacation list came out the plans could of been made. What is the rush? If he still has 2 weeks vacation left then there's at least two confirmed dates for a wedding.

Name: evans E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years Posted: 16 August 2011 Pete was in town the new rfm got promoted the hard way

Name: slack action E-mail: Employed as: M of W, for 10-20 years Posted: 15 August 2011 To pissed off wife to be: I suggest if you do not like your huband " To be " work conditions I would tell him to quit. Get a job at McDonalds or Walmart, they will give him the time off./ Facts are: He will not get off on Thanksgiving or Christmas until he has about 25 years... get used to it. If you do like all the benefits that come with job, health benefits, retirement, 401K.... JUST QUIT PRETTY SIMPLE...YEAH go ahead give someone an ear full, they are waiting by the phone... They always need a good laugh on Water St. Sweet Heart find a better job...... Good Luck

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 15 August 2011 No wonder CSX men are unhappy. Strong advice from this side. Stay marked up, take no Vacation, and never answer her calls. This is a real Train-wreck. .

Name: CorrUPtion Blogger E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 15 August 2011 Retired. Got really involved when a national contract was settled and past claims where settled for an average of $1500 per member while the Local Chairman got $7500 and worked half the time during that period. Theses claims were from certain incentives allowed for substandard locomotive conditions and not allowed to eat after 5 hours on duty. The LC was involved in safety programs passing-out heat stroke pamphlets in December. While 125 members got $6000 less in back claims. That difference of 125 x $6,000 ($750,000.00) is saved for the company and tacked on to the CEO' salary including stock options. There's nothing magical about railroad CEO's innovations after two hundred years--just fine a Local Chairman who will sell-out his members of 125 for $6000 a pop so he (LC) can get $7500. I'm not suggesting that all LC's are corrupt--but repeat the same process at say 200 terminals nationwide; do the math and maybe that will help you understand why CEO's salaries and options are up 20-fold the last 15 years. Everyone wants to complain about the carriers. It's your union bosses plain and simple--from top to bottom. Oops! Without explanation; the carrier quietly paid an average of $3700 more to each (125) member without (accounting oversight)"fault!" 2002. The meaning of "cognitive dissonance" should be read and understood!

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 30+ years Posted: 14 August 2011 Dear, how does a railroader rate such a cultured girlfriend?

Name: No wonder CSS men are unhappy E-mail: Employed as: Friend or family of employee, for 1-10 years Posted: 14 August 2011 CSX is the most retarded company ever. My fiancé has been with them for 5 years. He has 2 weeks vacation and can't even take it for our wedding and honeymoon. Talk about pathetic. For such a prosperous company they sure don't give a f* about their employees. If he doesn't get off for it someone is gonna get an ear full from me and it won't be good. Get off our your fat lazy asses and do some work and maybe your employees can enjoy their lives. And you wonder why most of the roaders are single....who the f wants to put up with a job that makes you miss life's most important events. Csx can kiss my ass

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 11 August 2011 Corruption blogger, Let us ask the same. How much are you worth? Man that just does not work.

Name: CorruUPtion Blogger E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 08 August 2011 Does anyone here still believes in "Reaganomics?" Americans are now feeling the affects of what has not been trickled down! America needs strong union leadership to put the cross hairs on corporate greed. How much is your CEO worth?

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Employed in other capacity, for N/A Posted: 05 August 2011 I think I got a job at the Baltimore Coal Pier, in Curtis Bay MD. Can anyone tell me if this place is as bad as everyone says it is. This is a tough decision, because I have another job making more money offered to me.

Name: NoMo E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 05 August 2011 9Hey RRJ: Yeah you right...we might not be so successful so we better keep our daylight jobs. A designer clothing line is a logical spin-off. Actually I have thought about selling pre stained, dingy drawers. I was going to call them Fruit of Boom, You could choose your own grade...E-1 to E-9 Special. For those particularly gifted, like trainmasters, that merit a Battlefield Commission, the Deathcon series...time to duck and cover!

Name: RRJ E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 04 August 2011 NoMo NO, I don't think porn would be a good thing. Then again it could be a hidden spin off company for William he can be the star playing all of the parts plus the production company from fluffer to the caboose. We'll call it "Yo a Bitch" enterpise. We could branch out to t-shirts, buttons, posters, clothing line ect... a new phrase like "SH#T HAPPENS" this time it's "Yo a bitch". Why not incorporate jeans with boxer shorts? One item sewn together. Except we'll sell ours with a signature brown skid mark on the back of the exposed boxers. We'll call it the "William". I think it might work.

Name: RRJ E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 04 August 2011 Cotton Congratulations enjoy your retirement you earned it.

Name: Cotton E-mail: Employed as: M of W, for 30+ years Posted: 03 August 2011 I am so happy my time is up ! Was it worth puttin 30 + years ? Better than social unsecurity . Hope y'all are havin fun

Name: NoMo E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 03 August 2011 Hey RRJ: I forgot to mention the hard porn operation...of course we would be the leads but we would have to have personal fluffers and some hos. Any ideas?

Name: RRJ E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 03 August 2011 NoMo Great ideas. I like "Leave it to Goober" NoMo could be the new Eddie Haskell. Mikey Ward as Ward Cleaver & David Brown as June even the most infamous line on the show works David says at the breakfast nook "Mikey weren't you a little hard on the Goober last night?". "Good Morning CSX" interviews with the likes of William "How's it going at CSX?" Williams response "Yo a bitch". It works.

Name: NoMo E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 02 August 2011 Hey RRJ: Here's one of my ideas...we syndicate. Dear RRJ or Ask RRJ or maybe Dr.RRJ or Good Morning with RRJ or even the CSX Evening News with RRJ. I have a friend that will cook up a batch of "Old RRJ" or "RRJ Black" which will be aged 12 days or "RRJ Red" aged for 8 days. Just think, the possibilities are endless...can you carry a tune or maybe lip sync? You could be next Justin Bieber. How about RRJ and the Brakemen or RRJ and the Hoggers? Your signature numbers could be "City of New Orleans", "Train Time" or maybe even "Crazy Train". I can envision TV shows like "Life with CSX", " Leave it to Goober" or "RRJ knows Best". Broadway shows like "Phantom of the Main Line" or "Caboose Boys". You better start buffing up!

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 02 August 2011 Too RRJ: Why is there so much corruption with rail unions? You seem very protective of the hole process!

Name: RRJ E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 02 August 2011 NoMo I wouldn't call a pastie white kid wanna be gangsta' & Goober a fan club. If we get a few more then we'll discuss needing a manager. I'm still trying to figure out what is "Yo a bitch".

Name: NoMo E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 02 August 2011 Hey RRJ: You're developing quite a fan club...Can we talk about an agent agreement and some merchandising?

Name: RRJ E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 02 August 2011 Thank You! Then the feat was accomplished.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 01 August 2011 RRJ, Honestly you are more disgusting than the posters. Just Saying.

Name: RRJ E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 01 August 2011 What is "yo a bitch"? LMFAO. It sounds like some pastie white kid trying to speak ebonics. If you can't spell how did you get a job on the railroad? I'm sure you don't know which way the brim of a ball cap belongs that you wear your boxers outside your pants shoe laces untied most likely a bad impersonation of a gangsta' rapper. Yeah, daddy dribbled more than he should of down your momma's leg!

Name: RRJ E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 31 July 2011 William Is that the best you came come up with? Sonny, the problem with you is your daddy pulled out early and what would of been the best part of you squirted down your momma's leg. Now that's an insult!

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 30 July 2011 does anyone know if CSX has done anything about the drug problems at the baltimore coal pier.

Name: RRJ E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 30 July 2011 I forgot to write the person who got terminated did mention this time around it was a signal violation in his post. Go and reread it. Plus he did mention that he had already been previously terminated for a signal violation. He got his chance with being allowed to return the first time. The other person might not of broken one of the cardinal sins before which would of allowed him to get his job back. It's rare for people to get their jobs back with multiple major violations. It's not impossible. That'll be determined when ever his appeals case comes before an arbitrator.

Name: RRJ E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 30 July 2011 Lloyd I don't regret anything. Why should I do that? The railroad isn't for everyone never has been. Things could always be worse. Merchant marines are gone for months at a time, the military gone for years at a time, long haul truck drivers weeks at a time ect.... Lot's of job have it worse than the railroad. My father was a military man. Watched my father leave for Korea in the '50s then Vietnam during the '60s. It can be a whole lot worse than the railroad. I was married a few times. Second wife hated the railroad said she needed a 9-5 man wanted me to take a buy out from the railroad in the '80s. I told her she might as well leave and don't let the door hit you in the arse. I respected her honesty. I was on the railroad before meeting her if one had to go it wasn't the railroad. She should of known what to expect we dated for two years. No regrets. Children one son that was from a marriage before the railroad. He was born and raised in California still lives there now I have two grandchildren. Most of the people I know on the railroad from my generation are married with children now most have grandchildren. They did alright takes a good woman.

Name: Peter tb E-mail: Employed as: Corporate office, for Less than 1 year Posted: 30 July 2011 rrj is a good man.

Name: Evans E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years Posted: 30 July 2011 rrj The name of this site is csx-sucks. How are pengions doing at the park?

Name: Lloyd E-mail: Employed as: Brakeman, for 10-20 years Posted: 30 July 2011 Neither you or I know the situation of the poster as far as why he got fired but he stated clearly that someone else is back to work after doing the same thing he did. If he had previous offenses and the other worker did not then I guess he has no defense here but according to what I read they were on equal terms. As far as me quitting, I'm tryin "bubba". When the opportunity comes I'm as good as gone. I'd say you are right about the whole "adapt or overcome" mindset but this isn't about survival, this about a company who could care less about most of their employees. You can keep making excuses for them all you like RRJ but no sane human being thinks that the railroads treat their people right, not anyone I work with anyway. The only conclusion I can come to with you is that you probably don't have any children and were probably either divorced or never married. If you were married and had kids I wonder what your relationship is like with them now. You seem to be someone who puts work above life and feels like you stuck it out and now are enjoying your retirement defending a company that probably put you through hell. Me and you will never see eye to eye and I assure you its not because of a generation gap, it is because I put other things first in my life before work. I respect you for making it through 30 years out here but when you look back do you feel like things could have been a lot better? You bash me for bashing the company but until they learn that people have lives outside of moving trains I'll never stop..even if I do quit or get fired.

Name: RRJ E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 30 July 2011 Lloyd Boo Hoo! If you don't like the way things are quit (I can't wait for a response on this one). It's their railroad always has been. When did that ever change? Even decades ago we were subjected to the whims of TM's & RFE's that were harsh doling out suspensions & terminations. All you ever do is write about is how crappy the unions are how unfair the railroad is. It's all about adapting to the envirement. I know people that are retired and still bitch about how they hated CSX. When they worked they were up in the TM's office all the time putting attention on themselves. I hardly ever saw a TM. The RFE I might of ran into him in a hallway twice a year one of those was to sign my certification card. Why is it a lot of people are thriving out here and a small precentage isn't? It's like the person who got terminated. Did you actually read his situation? This was his second termination. That's a whole different ballgame. How many terminations is a person suppose to get before the hammer comes down? If anyone I knew got past two red boards I wouldn't want them out there working. It doesn't matter if the first one was as an inexperienced engineer (his words) the other as a conductor. The second offense no excuses he was still a certified engineer. He should of known better seeing he got by one red board already. You like making excuses for every situation. Sometimes people need to grow up an take it like a man (or woman).

Name: RRJ E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 30 July 2011 Lloyd I'm not justifying. I just want it to be accurite. Big difference there Bubba. Besides it doesn't matter. If people want a chance at that kind of money then get an education. Seeing they didn't be glad for what they have it could be worse.

Name: Lloyd E-mail: Employed as: Brakeman, for 10-20 years Posted: 30 July 2011 Hey RRJ, please don't ever come on here and justify the amount any CEO in this country makes or compare it to the people on Wall Street. The CEO's of many fortune 500 companies and the boards who determine how much they make have completely lost touch with reality. There are too many good people suffering in this country for any of these idiots to be making the amount they do. I don't have a socialist mind set but it's obvious the rich will continue to get richer while the middle class and below will suffer. I understand we live in a capitalist society but its obvious that when Michael Ward's salary is about 25 times the highest paid T&E's salary then something is wrong. Thats not even including the bonuses, free transportation, free meals, and free stays that come with that job. Hey 3rd generation conductor, be happy that you have a job but please stop with the burger flipping comparisions. The railroads treat their people like shit and the unions arent much better. Everyone out here is different, some have children some don't, some are single, some are married. Just check out the divorce rate, the amount of men paying child support, and try to remember the last time you actually made an event without having a personal day or vacation day in. Obviously if you think this is a great place to work it must be because this is the only job you have ever had or just haven't had the privelage of working for a company that cares about their employees and families. To the engineer who believes he is being discriminated against, I'd be on the phone with Labor Relations Monday. If someone was with you got fired and is back while you are off fired still then you have a valid complaint. Being a part of the UTU or BLET shouldn't affect the amount of time you have off and all involved should have gotten equal punishment if any was dealt out. I don't know how much the race factor plays out here but I have noticed that women do seem to be allowed more personal business days more often than men. All I can say is don't give up on your fight and take it to them even if it means going to court. I wish you the best and hopefully you will come back and share more info in the coming days or weeks about what happens.

Name: RRJ E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 29 July 2011 Corporation Blogger I don't know where you get your info but it's inaccurite. RR CEO's don't make the same as bankers or Wall St. You must be including Warren Buffett he's not the CEO of BNSF but he did buy it for his Berkshire Hathaway investment. Top railroad CEO's might make a combined $60,000,000 a big difference from your estimate of $500,000,000. Besides who cares what they make. You should of went to Harvard or Yale to become one of the elite. Railroaders make a decent living one might not become rich but definitely comfortable.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for N/A Posted: 28 July 2011 Jobs are few and far between I am a 3rd generation rail worker and thank god for my job. good pay, good friends and I even get to leave early at times and still get my 8 hours pay. If you can complain about then go work at a drive thru window you will be much happier!!!

Name: NoMo E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 27 July 2011 Hey Corporate 10-20: Weap?

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Corporate office, for 10-20 years Posted: 27 July 2011 Loco Eng Still what is our ass?? READ IT AND WEAP CSX beats Wall Street expectations, pushes operating ratio into 60s Published: July 20, 2011 CSX-stock-wagner Photo by Ralcon Wagner JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — CSX posted record earnings in the second quarter, beating analysts’ expectations and posting an operating ratio of 69.3 percent. In the results, released late yesterday, the railroad paid dividends of 46 cents per share, a 28 percent improvement over last year’s second quarter. Total traffic rose modestly, up 3 percent year-over-year. Food/consumer agricultural products and forest products posted the strongest gains, both up 8 percent. Total coal shipments fell nearly 3 percent as utilities burned more natural gas amid low prices. Strong export volumes helped offset lagging utility orders, however. The railroad was able to charge more for its services, however. Revenue per unit rose 10 percent year-over-year, from an average of $1,666 per freight car moved to $1,834. “As our markets continue to expand, CSX is delivering outstanding results for our shareholders,” said Chairman and CEO Michael J. Ward. “At the same time, we are taking a number of actions to position the operations for greater customer demand, now and over the long-term.”

Name: Corruption Blogger Jr. E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 27 July 2011 The combined net worth of Class I rail CEOs is over $500,000,000.00. Subtract your income from the amount...or the next union meeting you attend...add up all member's income and subtract the amount noted and see what you come up with!

Name: Evans V E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 25 July 2011 @Evans We all know Peter T B. has said on more than one occasion that he would violate our agreements in a hearbeat. No wonder why they did what they did in chicago, or those 'Bama boys showing up on his doorstep. Piss on too many people and eventually someone is going to fling poo.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years Posted: 23 July 2011 fucking cry babies.......why dont you guys just stick it right in their fucking ass to get yours....thats what i do.....knocking down 100k a year

Name: RRJ E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 21 July 2011 They can't stop anyone from taking their assigned rest days. Don't people know that if you happen to be working during those day/days they need to call CMC and request them immediately once back in the home terminal. I know engineers have an early mark off for rest days, PL, DV, and vacation call CMC before 1600 to request it then they can't be called after 2000. There is also a late mark up all one has to do is request it from CMC it'll streach it to 0400. Not sure if the UTU got these provisions in their version of the SSA. If CSX is playing with calling times to avert the FRA mandatory rest it needs to be documented and given to the LC. I know the BLET had requested such info they're already aware that it is happening. I see people in my area getting time off wether it's rest day or FRA which is needed do the high volume of traffic and being short handed. Seems to me people don't know how to play the system.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Engine repair, for Less than 1 year Posted: 20 July 2011 The Union at the railroad will never be strong, unless someone educates 80-90% of its workforce to stop voting for republicans. Just read the facts people. Republicans have already been responsible for many RIGHT TO WORK states. They hate unions and will do anything in there power to bust a union, much like CSX management. So stop listening to your NON UNION bosses and do what is right for your much corrupted union at the railroad.

Name: evans E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years Posted: 20 July 2011 It is our dm Peter B. He is causing all kinds of problems on the nashville division.

Name: NoMo E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 20 July 2011 Hey Con 1-10: It seems that CSX is now abusing their own policy. You didn't say where you worked but it seems to be rather extreme. I haven't heard the same complaints from the NO&M, M&M or PD. This should be a concern for the unions since they acceded to the policy. This should also be a grave concern for the FRA since they mandated the rest days etc. Your LC & GC need to be called out on this and you should call your FRA representative to notify them. The problem may rest with your Division manager who has the authority to direct how CMC staffs his Division!

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 20 July 2011 Re: NoMo I understand what you are saying to a certain extent but the FRA days are a bunch of crap. The company will hold calls until midnight or give you a DH to take you off your days. I stayed marked up without a day off for 3 months without catching the FRA days. I know an engineer that hasn't took a sick day over 3 year's and has never had the FRA days. I finally realized if I wanted to see my family I use my 1 sick day every 28 days and if the board is is exhausted take another sick day and mark up to catch something. I agree the abuse of a few employee's have ruined the RR for everyone. We have an engineer now that has been marked off sick for over 2 weeks straight. The guy has found a loop hole in the system and is faxing a doctor excuse to a certain person in Jacksonville before its hitting the attendance policy system. The guy was notorious for never working and he gets away with it. On the other hand we have guys like myself who stays marked up the majority of the time get letters for missing a couple day in 6 months. If the company would help the people who doesn't take off all the time and reward 3-4 days off a month without penalty I think the employee's would be more happy.

Name: NoMo E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 20 July 2011 Hey Con 1-10: The current attendance policy is the result of years of abuse by a relatively small percentage of people. It has gotten stricter over the last 5 or 6 years as the average age of T&E employees get younger and younger. Today there are mandatory days off as well as minimum time between tours. Bonuses are paid (supposedly) for meeting the attendance policy. Like all other jobs, attendance is not optional. The unions haven't helped...they defend the no shows and allow the abusers to continue. CSX is in business to make money...their employees are a big reason they do, their employees are also their single biggest expense. The railroad is based on team work...you have to be a team player or you need to find something else to occupy your time and support yourself and your family. If you are married, your spouse needs to understand that you don't work because you like to, you work because you have to. Accordingly, she must also be a team player too. If she's not willing to be, then there is a decision that has to be made. The railroad is a tough life but the pay and benefits are way above average. What work you do is easy and the pay should allow your spouse to stay home with your children. Even though I no longer work for CSX, I to have strict attendance policies. First, I have to beat my wife home or have to have a written excuse from the Barmaster and, if I'm late with my pick ups the crewtender is calling. If I derail, I have to answer to the FRA (Fraternal Regulators of Alcohol), their the ones that have the party lights on their cars!

Name: Robofuq E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 20 July 2011 Not a fan of attendance policy, even though it doesn't affect me as a heavy hitter and I work a pool with a drop rule. This ain't a normal job by any means, but where else could you work and take off 1 day a week all year? Get FMLA and mark off every weekend like everybody else.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 20 July 2011 Only people you notice that are Pro attendance policy are the losers that have a shitty family life or is divorce. I see this all the time working on the road. The same people who doesn't want off days on the boards, work 24/7 are money hungry, no family, divorce RR's. I don't mind the long hours or the work but this attendance policy is crap for a family life. I would take 1 off day a week and be happy but you can't get that out here.

Name: just plain krazy E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 19 July 2011 just wondering y and the hell the men cant stick together. the unions do nothing. the bonus the conductors were supposed to get (by what was said in the contract) on the first of july was pushed back to the 15th without the union letting anyone know till the day before.....all claims whether good or not are being deniedand i know the only guys that are getting thier claims paid are taking them to arbitration themselves..... ive been told stories of how combining the UTU and BLE has fell thru in the past but maybe it is time to try again. im tired of being screwed by this company, its time for both crafts to come at the comany with one united union.

Name: RRJ E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 16 July 2011 evans Hobby? If you say so. I feel sorry for people like you and spongeboob. I don't need to post on here I do it to try and help others to understand. You & boob are beyond help. I guess you were part of the failed experiment of time outs instead of your parents whooping your behind. Like I stated it's comical your petty insults.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years Posted: 16 July 2011 yo evans respect your elders or get out of the trade. Thats the way it is. You remind me of the youth of america (DISRESPECTFUL)

Name: E-mail: Employed as: M of W, for 10-20 years Posted: 16 July 2011 Ok, after 15 years I can honestly say it was NOT worth it. I could tell you every reason why but im not. just move on.

Name: AWP E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 1-10 years Posted: 15 July 2011 Added to article below about Mineral Springs collision: Speed on impact 48 MPH.

Name: AWP E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 1-10 years Posted: 15 July 2011 In response to the rear end collision in Mineral Springs, NC on May 24, 2011 that killed the train crew: I work in the Atlanta Division on the A&WP and regularly speak with crews from Abbeville, SC about the rear end collision. I spoke with a man who has seen the download. The engineer complied to the Approach Signal according to the operating rules. The crew then came back out on the power as if they were displayed a clear signal at the intermediate siganl after the approach signal. The engineer blew the crossing a few hundred feet prior to the collision and turned the bell off just seconds before. They obviously were awake. This same employee told me that he has come out onto the main in that area on a short local train and not show up on the dispatchers board due to the tracks not shunting. Is there a known problem in this area? Were they running on a clear signal? We will probably never know cause CSX says the loco-cam was not functioning. Its funny how if its something that can prove your guilt they always can get the video but if its a video that can clear your name then it never seems to work. Go figure. I heard the NTSB took over the investigation so maybe we will get to the bottom of it. Big maybe.

Name: evans E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years Posted: 15 July 2011 rrj I'm sorry, I'm sure this is your hobby that you so much enjoy. Just like some feed pengions in the park. I'm not going to give you any more hell just because your an old dumb fuck. Who likes to tell lies and bullshit about how it use to be.

Name: RRJ E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 15 July 2011 evans I'm impressed #3 in seniority. If it's true that's just at your terminal not on the consolidated roster. You don't have enough whiskers for that sonny

Name: RRJ E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 15 July 2011 Spongeboob Everyone dies no one knows when you could keel over at any minute. You shouldn't wish ill on others. You're right no one would care those on the railroad would look at it as another notch up in seniority. Fool.

Name: RRJ E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 15 July 2011 Nothing arrogant. We worked when there wasn't any radios using only hand signals. Which has become a lost art form. There's only one hand signal today the thumb when that conductor presses his radio. We couldn't call a dispatcher on the locomotive you stopped to use call boxes when they lit a light to inform crews that they needed to ring him up ect...there's a lot more that has changed. No arrogance only reality. No getting on-off moving equipment no more climbing cars to tye hand brakes now it's done with brake sticks working hump yards catching free rolling cars to tye down clear alleys ect...It was a fun job back then you actually needed to know how to railroad. That's all lost. You're insults are comical. I'll happily collect my retirement every month very content with life.

Name: Spongebob E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years Posted: 15 July 2011 RRJ's response, "I forgot more about railroading then you'll ever know so has my peers." Comments like this shows your true arrogance and stupidity, you think just because someone has been out here for 30-40 years that makes them a good railroader? I have worked with guys with 5 years that knew more than guys with 30-40 years. Nobody gives a big flying fuck about your stories and the way things use to be RRJ. With that being said go FUCK YOURSELF you old decrepid fart. Just keep collecting your check, meet up with the guys every morning for coffee and tell your stories about the way things use to be. Soon enough you will perish like all those before you and nobody will care, and the mighty CSX will continue without you and the pre 85 employees like you.

Name: EVANS E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years Posted: 15 July 2011 RRJ LOL Im 3 in seniority bitch. I don't have anything against old heads just brain washed old farts like you.

Name: RRJ E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 15 July 2011 evans You twit. I responded to a "brakemen" not an engineer. I forgot more about railroading then you'll ever know so has my peers. As for staying home I'm retired so go fuck yourself get back on the train so my stock can make me more money. This petty nonsense you have against oldheads shows your ignorance remember you'll be there one day it might not be that far off. Oldhead is seniority not age. When the last of my peers retires ya'll are in for some schidt. It'll be a new railroad minus agreements that pre-85er's held. To start one board they won't need assigned jobs they'll be no more prior rights. You're to stupid to see beyond things.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Engine repair, for Less than 1 year Posted: 14 July 2011 my daddy didnt work here you spoke that well, I am in about the same boat you are. This place is full of journeyman of nothing. poor training and only thing they know is strictly memorization. Most employees are also job scared. Because no one else would hire them anywhere else.

Name: evans E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years Posted: 14 July 2011 rrj You ask why are people complaining now. This site is call csx-sucks. A rrer can't lay off at all now due to this policy. I understand your too old and stupid to want to be home. Maybe your kids and ex-wife hate you. Most of us do want some time with our families. As far as a yard job the unions sold ours out on split date and the ones left are remote jobs thanks again to the useless unions. most old guys have inhaled too much diesel or are brain washed

Name: RRJ E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 14 July 2011 mn Go find yourself a yard job. That's 40 hours a week w/ time and a half working rest days ect...The road has always been different classified a 7 day assignment which excludes it from the conventional 40 hour work week. Nothing has changed it's the same as it's always been. Why are people complaining now? You knew the requirements before hiring. People just didn't believe it could actually be this way.

Name: mn E-mail: Employed as: Brakeman, for 1-10 years Posted: 13 July 2011 The average union member in the United States pays between $400-$500 annually in dues. What do you pay and what do you get in return. The average union member in the Unite States recieves 1.5x pay over 40hrs.,and weekends, double time on holidays. lays off sick over 14.5x yr on a 5 day work week.

Name: Evan E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years Posted: 13 July 2011 This is a different job than it was when most of us hired out. Peter has played a big part in it. I don't think any of us signed up to work 27 of 28 days. Those fortunate to have an off day very seldom observes a full calendar day. If you work part of a day that can't be counted as an off day. I know we didn't sign up to pay union dues when nothing gets resolved. Just sign the waiver, O they can do that. I'll be off every weekend union buisness or company suck if you need me. What a waste of money.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 1-10 years Posted: 12 July 2011 Everyone knew the circumstances when they took the job offer. On-call 24/7. I talk to guys everyday who say, "man I can't believe they called me on my rest, thats crazy, man," or "man, i told you they would turn that claim down!" (However, we do have a major issue in this area that needs to be addressed. Its bad enough to work the hours we do but then you gotta fight for your money. Its not right.) Again, you knew what you were getting in when you accepted the job and when you voted in your union representative even if he is a dirty bastard. I feel like a shrink instead of an engineer. All the bullcrap I listen to everyday up and down the rails from the conductor or the guy thats in the yard office whose been here 40 yrs talking about how he hates working for the railroad. Nobody is holding a gun to your head making you go to work. If you can't handle the requirmemnts for employmet then go work at wal-mart or something. Oh yeah, wait a minute. Where else are you going to make $100K+ year with a GED or high school diploma? You're not! So step-up, shut-up, get out or retire.

Name: RRJ E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 12 July 2011 Depression? Anti-anxiety drugs? Mark off sick if a person needs extended time off after the second week file for RRB sick benefits. CSX can't touch you on that one with it's attendance policy. Marking off every week for appointments will never happen it wasn't possible 17 years ago without raising red flags. I know back then I went thru some depression going thru a divorce. The other option is a yard job. Don't contact the EAP they're only good for drug & alcohol failures it'll do more harm. CMC has a job to do just like everyone else. People have been running up on jobs forever that is their right. It doesn't make them bad people. Running up on jobs at one time was good once back in the home terminal they waited for their pool to get back in it allowed time off today they put you back on the board bring your pool back home. The unions do need to step up to the plate. Last but not least no one is keeping anyone from leaving CSX. I know people don't like to hear it. The only other option adapt apparently it's not getting any better.

Name: GL E-mail: Employed as: Train Dispatcher, for 20-30 years Posted: 12 July 2011 RE: Robofuq ...Sounds like Willard

Name: Robofuq E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 11 July 2011 After pulling out of the yard away from home, heard dispatcher tell 3 van trains there were no crews to relieve them, and no room in the yard for them. Somebody piped in "only been a manpower shortage for a year and a half". The big question now isn't will we make it over the road, it's will there be a crew at the other end?

Name: evan E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years Posted: 10 July 2011 This place keeps getting worse... There never has been an attendance issue only a management one.. Everyone stepping up when crew management runs the roster is a fool. Cmc wont let you lay off when the need arises but your willing to take an extra train.. Come on your screwing us all and cmc is laughing at you. Cut back en don't step up for a call as engineer. The unions out here are a big nothing. They haven't done a thing about this it's been a year and now good men are in the steps of losing their job.. This job has always sucked being away from home for days being intimidated. And now getting letters in the mail saying your violation of the attendance policy. I worked more hours in six months not counting hotel time then those basterds will the entire year. I blame the Ble and UtU FOR ALL OF THIS BULLSHIT. conductors vote that fat ass lc out of evansville he's one company man if there every was.

Name: NoMo E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 09 July 2011 Hey Tired: So what's new...CSX wants all their contract employees to have one foot out the door and the other on a banana peel. Have you tried to get FMLA? Sounds like a perfect reason to apply. Depression and stress, I'm no Doctor but it sounds work related to me. Better be careful, if it gets bad enough you might have to get disability. I would present the terminal manager with the charges for the missed appointments, you won't get reimbursed but it might get his attention. I'm sure someone with your experience can figure out a way to "get your money back"! Have a safe and ethical CSX day!

Name: Tired of being kicked in the t E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 10-20 years Posted: 09 July 2011 Hmmmmmmmm. Where to start. I have sought medical attention for depression. Most likely caused by csx. I have been put on some anti depresents which require being monitored for the first few months. I have tried to schedual my appointments on my days off, but to no avail. It would seem that Gerbles (The guy in charge calling crews) & Himler (guy in charge of attendance) finds it nesecary to call me to work on those days. I miss my appointments and get charged for late cancelation $60.00. So I have started to mark off doctors appointment the day before. This insures that I will make my nessecary and important appointments. I have the notes to prove that I was in my doctors office. They say doctors notes are not acceptable for mark off. They want me to be their head on a stick and want to give me time off. What they call step one. So they use their attendance policy is used to intimidate their employe's from recieving health care. THAT IS JUST NOT RIGHT. It would seem to me that this FACIST company is hiding out in America. They say they are American's living the American dream, but a true American does not treat his fellow Americans this way. They are greed driven at the expence of thier employee's, customers and the public. I will be seeking legal advice on this and pray that I can find a remedy for this in the courts.

Name: Ralph Whitaker Fan Club E-mail: Employed as: APE, for 1-10 years Posted: 02 July 2011 I remember some other guys in the Indiapolis MOW department who received extra special treatment; Terry Stewart; a B&B crane operator who can't run a crane but has a company pickup and his crane is always in need of repair and he always has an excuse why he can't use the crane. Dirty Dave Bales ran over a utility pole in Avon Yards. Ralphy boy swept that under the rug. Dirty Dave would just hang out after hours for the OT and he did get with it. Mike "MB" Fulp ; the once pride and joy of Dan Justice at Hawthorne. MB Fulp was caught several times by Ralph and Dano for padding the payroll and screwing off. MB was even caught borrowing a CSX welder truck to use the torch to cut up some scrap metal at his house. Ralph and Dan just let that slide. It wasn't until MB Fulp was caught by the FRA for lying about inspecting track when he was really at home that Ralph and Danny-boy threw him to the wolves. Rick Perry; He was promoted to ADE of bridges as a result of putting an extension ladder against a bridge in the middle of a busy road without baricades cones,etc. Needless to say a car came by, hit the ladder and injured not-to-bright Rick. Sam Spears; Ricky made him a bridge manager even though there were two far more qualified black men who applied for the job. I suppose being kicked out of the NAVY for being AWOL too many times and being on the drug/alcohol rehab program at CSX made him the best choice in Ricky's wandering eyes. Josh Huron; He was told by the Roadmaster and the ADE to drive a pickup when he didn't have a driver's license. He followed orders and was later fired for his efforts. We hope that J-ville does give the enema to the engineering department in Indy and the GL. Ralph Whitaker should go back to being a cook.

Name: advancestop E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 01 July 2011 To the conductor trainee who posted on 12/31/10, about being fired in training for not being available, I think we went to REDI together. You aren't missing out on much. Intimidation 24/7, money is ok, but good luck getting your claims paid. . Go back to flying, VTA.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 30 June 2011 Just a note to say how well I was treated on my Retirement, my Dates were 1/31/56 to 8/22/07 which equals approx 51 years an 7 months. The parting words were " See Ya "! Just wondering if its some kind of record ? Being Canadian we all got the Big Gazzoo you know where regarding our Pension, paid into it 25 years 7 month and I get $1143.00 I`am really living :O)CSX wouldn`t let Canadian`s into the 401k even though we worked under the same agreement ! There I`ve cried enough ! GOD BLESS CSX :o(

Name: Max Dugan E-mail: Employed as: M of W, for 1-10 years Posted: 26 June 2011 To Joe Preston Fan Club Re: Adam Flowers vehicle accident, Indy, IN. Our ADE; Ralph Whitaker didn't care for the track inspector at Hawthorn at the time so he threatened to fire him or suspend him if he didn't bid out. That guy bid out and Adam Flowers bid the Hawthorn track inspector job in. Ralph and Dano knew about Adam's driving history ( past and current ) and told him "to be careful". About 4 weeks ago Adam Flowers was playing with his phone on Southeastern avenue and rear-ended a Grandmother and her grandaughter sending both to the hospital. Adam's license was suspended at the time and was given a multitude of tickets. The company had Adam change his story from using his phone to reaching for a spitcan. I believe it's a Rooster-Fish company policy to NOT use tobacco products in a CSX vehicle. The GL boys waited 3 weeks to put Adam out of service pending an investigation or more like a "sweetheart deal". We are all wondering how Mike Flowers and Ralph Whitaker are going to get their boy out of this one?

Name: matt sanders and matt stamper E-mail: Employed as: Train Master/ supervisor, for Less than 1 year Posted: 26 June 2011 Alright, so we finally got a hold of Mrs. Ward. Mr. Stamper got her in the ass which is what he is use to and since I am now in Indiana, I fucked Michael in the ass!! Good day everyone!!! Oh, I am sorry, and the "KISS ASS, NOSY BASTARD" Steve Crain took a dildo in his ass at the same time!!!LLLMMMMMAAAOOO Hey Steve, you still going to Pennmary every Sunday just toi get away from the wife/hemroid?? Just curious!!:0)

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 26 June 2011 Hey AJ, Kinda looks like the folks are not buying in to your financial planning skills. Sorry bud keep on looking.

Name: AJ E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 13 June 2011 Interesting site and very unhappy people....I get a sense that all the complainers are living paycheck to paycheck! Saving creates a sense of self-worth and a purpose in life and its rewards including employment.

Name: Nine E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 20-30 years Posted: 13 June 2011 Evan bigfoot and littlefeet off again displaced and union

Name: evan E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years Posted: 13 June 2011 When you miss your off day and tie up at your home terminal. You have 22hrs from that point before your phone can ring. You were already entitled to 10hrs due to rest.. The company just gave you an extra 12hrs off not much of an off day.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 13 June 2011 Conductor Less than 1 Never worry about the days off, there will be few and that is a (BITCH) on the flip side, you will get them in a row, month after month. It would be nice to pick your poison, and that is not going to happen either. Time to man up, or go to work for P&G.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for Less than 1 year Posted: 13 June 2011 and the best part of it all, say your rest day is on a wednesday, they can call you up till 23:59 Tuesday night. so for example, with the 2hour call they give you, if you get called at 23:45, you show up for work on your rest day at 1:45 in the morning, work 10-12 hours then get home in the early afternoon on your day off. yeah, even though you have 24 hours of from that point, your day is shot

Name: evan E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years Posted: 13 June 2011 Something needs to be done about these useless union reps , safety sucks, and that bitch down in Nashville. not to mention this attendance policy

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years Posted: 12 June 2011 Something needs to be done about all these useless people who abuse the FMLA policy. It is intended for people who really have a need to be off, not the folks who want to go on a weekend harley ride or take a vacation.

Name: Dong Bageley E-mail: DavidBrown'sbuttbuddy@csx.com Employed as: M of W, for 1-10 years Posted: 12 June 2011 If your talking about the round house in Evansville to call back more employees then you might want to apply to transportation, MOW, or car shop. Chris A. is not planning on it. Some guys there state that Chris A. is scared of the next person they will call back and that is why he does not do it.

Name: RRJ E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 11 June 2011 Good for the railroad CEO's. I don't think Mikey Ward is worth as much as you think. He went through a nasty divorce the ex-Mrs Ward has a nice chunk of change. Which 5 railroads? If you include Warren Buffett and BNSF then the other 4 railroad CEO's are paupers compared to him.

Name: RR GONZA... E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years Posted: 09 June 2011 Top 5 railroad CEO's net worth is over $500,000,000.00. Dream big boys and girls; maybe some day you can go from a "clerk" to a railroad CEO!

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Engine repair, for Less than 1 year Posted: 07 June 2011 Anyone hear if they are going to call back employees in Evansville, IN?

Name: Evan E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years Posted: 04 June 2011 cd utu lc been off over a week union buisnes on his fat ass doing nothing. He told a young man I worked with that he needed to quit staying displaced. whaat a joke

Name: VAMBO RAMBO E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 04 June 2011 " Nothing has changed since the earliest days of our history, you get hammered on until you finally stand up and say you are tired of it. Its about that time boys...are you ready?" From I won't bother. This man is 100% correct when are we gonna stand up and say we have had enuf of the BS and being treated like convicts. The unions just sit on the side lines and watch. But noone has any balls today and these new guys they have them so brain washed and scared to death.

Name: Joe Sleep-Disorder Jr. E-mail: Employed as: APE, for 1-10 years Posted: 02 June 2011 Per UTU.org on 6/2/11: "Transport-employees fatigue continues to kill." Who's in denial; you or management? Does the latter run trains?

Name: Joe Sleep-Disorder E-mail: Employed as: APE, for 10-20 years Posted: 30 May 2011 Sleep disorders can cause fatal accidents and should be addressed with the proper health care provider--including documentation to your employer in case of harassment or accidents!

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 10-20 years Posted: 30 May 2011 To I wont bother: You have watched Hoffa to many times.

Name: Joe Preston Fan Club E-mail: Employed as: M of W, for 20-30 years Posted: 30 May 2011 I won't bother, The unions are being run like corporations. I don't think they give much of a crap for the people they are supposed to represent. There are reps who have been in much too long and like making the easy deals than actually doing something worthwhile. There should be term limits on union reps and actual voting instead of appointments.

Name: i wont bother E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 20-30 years Posted: 22 May 2011 When are you guys going to learn that the better you are at sucking weiner and the more money you have to stuff in pockets of those who make the "big decisions" the happier you will be? The class 1 railroads (CSX included) are running us over like the trains we pull the throttle on and all we do is bitch and moan to each other, cry to our spouses, and cry on websites like this one. Until someone in charge of one of our great almight unions decides we aren't going to deal with their shit anymore we will continue to be abused. Nothing has changed since the earliest days of our history, you get hammered on until you finally stand up and say you are tired of it. Its about that time boys...are you ready?

Name: RRJ E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 19 May 2011 Robofuq The unions have been working on establishing sick pay. The reason we never had it the road job being 24/7/365 it was the same for holiday pay the theory was lost time could be made up even if the railroad shut down. Yard jobs have always had holiday pay. It took the union decades to get PL days for the road in leiu of scheduled holidays. The UTU got PL days in 1982 the BLE didn't because we went on a 4 day strike in 1982 over contract negotiations. The BLE finally got them in the mid '90s. With the stringent CSX attendance policies in effect sick pay will have to become a reality. It won't/can't happen till the next contract negotiations. I'm not sure what these dispute/resolution committees can do but I'm sure wages or benefits are excluded.

Name: Robofuq E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 18 May 2011 An article recently in my local news quoted a Bureau of Labor statistic saying the average American worker calls in sick 14 times a year. Keep in mind the majority of (other)people work, if not M-F 9-5, at least a set schedule with scheduled days off. We have to be the ONLY unionized workforce without ANY paid sick time in the US. Couple that with the near impossibility(on the road) of scheduling a a PL day that can guarantee the day off. Just my 2 cents.

Name: RRJ E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 18 May 2011 "FMLA is the balance of power against the rigged system of greed" What does that mean? FMLA isn't a get out of jail free card. What greed? CSX wanting to make profit. Now with yearly productivity bonuses people are now linked to CSX in a way never seen before. It's never been a M-F 7-3 job. People wanted rest days now bitch because they can't mark off when they want to. In any other job outside the railroad they'ld fire you in a flash for taking time off. Still FMLA isn't to be used in any other means than what it's intended.

Name: Joe Sleep-Disorder E-mail: FMLA Employed as: APE, for 1-10 years Posted: 16 May 2011 FMLA is the balance of power against the rigged system of greed. That's why your union officers are always involved in company sponsored safety meetings. The carriers literally beg union officers against encouraging their members not to take advantage of needed leave!

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 15 May 2011 csx has a strict availability policy & I'm sure that every railroader knows the answer to the attendance policy & the bids system, its 4 powerful letters, FMLA !!! haha! just like magic!

Name: evans E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 20-30 years Posted: 10 May 2011 cd utu lc hiding out on displacement again.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Friend or family of employee, for N/A Posted: 09 May 2011 A person who has been dismissed from CSX is no longer an employee at that time until an arbitrator makes their decision. They are under no obligation to CSX. How can the company file additional charges and command the person to attend a hearing when that person is dismissed?

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Employed in other capacity, for Less than 1 year Posted: 08 May 2011 I WANT EVERYBODY TO READ THIS. CSX HAS A REAL PROBLEM DEALING WITH PEOPLE, THEY ALWAYS THINK THEY ARE IN WORLD WAR 3. NOT SUPIRISING CONSIDERING THE PEOPLE THAT ARE DESPEREATE AND GREEDY AND PAYING OFF THINGS THEY SHOULDNT HAVE BOUGHT AT ALL OR THE COUNTLESS KIDS AND BILLS THEY LET PILE UP. OR THEY GOT TO SHOW PEOPLE THIER BAD ADDITUDE BECAUSE THEY GOT TO SURVIVE. EVERYBODY SURVIES!!!! THERE SHOULDNT HAVE TO BE A REASON FOR THIS POST. STOP BAD MOUTHINGAND USE SOME MANNERS CSX, LIKE EVERYBODY ELSE!!!!

Name: 00H323 E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 08 May 2011 Imagine that! I guess ol jim is worn out from all the butt kissing he has been doing to the new terminal manager. Sure miss rick as local chairman.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: APE, for 1-10 years Posted: 08 May 2011 Mr. Ward and stockholders, D.J. Murphy; Director of Operations Support continues to send certified letters to a former employee commanding him to attend a "CSX hearing" at his own expense. A. The person doesn't work at CSX anymore. B. The person just doesn't have the money to travel at whim on a short notice at his own expense. He's unemployed, remember? C. Mr. Murphy & Co. is wasting the stockholder's money. The postage cost so far for the various certified letters is around $30. plus the cost of paying a clerk to type the letters and take them to the post office. The person could be doing something else instead; Remember, the person they are sending the letters to has already been dismissed. D. The former employee was "railroaded" by just asking for the racial slurs, sexual slurs,butt/crotch grabbing and harassment to stop.

Name: Evans E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 20-30 years Posted: 07 May 2011 utu lc for cd off all week for union now hes hiding out on displacement

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 05 May 2011 NOMO, OK sorry, I got it.

Name: NoMo E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 03 May 2011 Hey Goober: I wasn't talking about the rail unions...

Name: evans E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 20-30 years Posted: 03 May 2011 utu lc on the cd is always hiding out on bumps and he mentions that conductors are all hiding what do you expect with this attendance issue

Name: Troy B & Lee H E-mail: BLE532@msn.com Employed as: APE, for 30+ years Posted: 03 May 2011 HEY RICHMOND, REMEMBER JG MOLTER, SAFETY SUCK? HE IS RETIRED AND NOW SPENDS HIS DAYS ON CSX-SUCKS.COM....HE MISSED SUCKING OFF THE TRAINMASTER'S FOR SAFETY MONEY AND OVERTIME, SO MUCH, THAT WHEN HE RETIRED HE HEARD ABOUT THIS WEBSITE. HE THOUGHT "CSX SUCKS" WAS A WEB SITE WHERE HE COULD HOOK UP WITH CSX MANAGERS AND SUCK THEM OFF, JUST LIKE HE DID EVERYDAY AT FULTON. WE STILL GOTTA WORK OUT HERE IN THIS SHITTY WORLD THAT HIS GENERATION LEFT US, AND HE HAS THE BALLS TO COMMENT OF WHAT OUR JOBS ARE LIKE. MOLTER ONE WORD FOR YOU: "R-E-T-I-R-E" WHAT A PIECE OF SHIT...

Name: ld E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 10-20 years Posted: 02 May 2011 I noticed that too from lc on the cd. Lastweek i asked lc on cd about whats he doing about getting weekend personal and daily vacation days available to us again and his response was that you guys quit hiding out on weekends and work and he may have a leg to stand on gettong them back meanwhile he takes off company every weekend. i heard from a engineer he was spotted at the aztar last weekend with some officials

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 02 May 2011 NoMo, In my few years on the RR I paid very few months of Union dues. Refused payroll deduction, just sent a check when the pressure was to great. Might have made 2 or 3 meetings in 7 years. My Dad was a strong union person and he sent a lot of signals, all of them bounced off. My partner was the L&N they had the paycheck, the Union was the Sucker. And they are still sucking the blood out of the membership. Fight as ya might but the check payer will Always WIN.

Name: EVANS WILLE E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 20-30 years Posted: 01 May 2011 I WAS RIGHT cd utu lc marked off GO after 48hr bump

Name: evans ville E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 20-30 years Posted: 30 April 2011 cd ble lc laid off union for another weekend cd utu lc laid off union last two weekends and now is hiding under displacement for 48hrs im betting he will lay off union after he marks up

Name: NoMo E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 30 April 2011 Hey Goober: You attend every meeting, vote every ballot and pay all you dues... to the Curmudgeon Society, don't you? Can you sponsor RRJ and myself for membership...we're almost through our training;)

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 29 April 2011 Attend every meeting, vote every ballot. The end result is called an agreement, in a world of lawyers where no one agrees. Join your employer, or refuse to join, and keep on paying those Union dues. Every Union Employee thinks that the employer is out to screw them, and that is not the case. They simply screw each other, time and time again and both sides stay pissed. Going to rest for a while in the sun.

Name: RRJ E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 29 April 2011 Just so you don't misunderstand my comment on throwing $$$$ at people I was talking about the members not the union reps. Some people just look at the money in a proposed contract then ignore the 95% that discusses work rule changes.

Name: RRJ E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 29 April 2011 Lloyd You're getting a little far fetched on a conspiracy theory. There's no bribery or manipulation on getting a contract passed except throwing $$$$ to blind people then they don't look at the rest of the proposed contract. That still doesn't explain the lack of interest in the number of people voting. Worst excuse "It was going to pass anyways". That's a defeatest attitude. What would the BLE HQ in Cleveland benefit from manipulating it? Nothing, they represent all railroads not just CSX. Not all railroads are the same those working on the UP & BNSF aren't having the problems like CSX. These on-property type contracts started with the NS back in the mid '90s. We ended up with Tony Ingram & David Brown they just brought the NS to CSX. When it comes time to vote in national/international leadership the east coast railroads are at a disadvantage seeing the west coast has more people which I can only speak of the BLE. I omitted the "T" because even though trainmen can belong to the BLET they still fall under the UTU contract & agreements same goes for engineers belonging to the UTU. If there was manipulation then why did 25% of CSX the former Conrail properties in the NE opt out of the 2007 BLE/CSX SSA? Their members voted to not participate. People need to take responsibilty for their own actions.

Name: lloyd E-mail: Employed as: Brakeman, for 10-20 years Posted: 28 April 2011 Hey RJ, don't you think that the company could manipulate the numbers any way the saw fit...especially if a little cash was slipped towards the people who counted those ballots? You and I both know that they were going to have it their way no matter if the people voted against the contract or not.

Name: RRJ E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 28 April 2011 LE 20-30 Your right it's difficult to make it to every union meeting. On average a person could make it to 4-6 meetings a year. Which is about what I did. My point was lack of participation. When the BLET reported that there was a 52% return of ballots for the 2007 BLET/CSX SSA that's pathetic. What happened to the other 48%? It took all of 5 minutes to place an X mark seal it in a prepaid envelope and put it in the mail box. The material had been available for at least a month to review. I don't think there's anything more important than one's contract & agreements. I voted against it to many work agreement changes it would continuosly change thru the BLET/CSX dispute/resolution committees which ended up with a ton of side letters that people didn't have a clue about. It ended contracts that were permanently cut in stone. Then in 2009 the SSA extension was voted on with it passing so they must like it. It not wise to just look at the money with these yearly productivity bonuses ect...which is exactly what people did. Changes to attendance policies ect...were included in these SSA's. Apparently no one took the time to read it then read in between the lines.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 20-30 years Posted: 28 April 2011 RRJ, I try and make it to all my meetings, but you have to remember that its a working craft. Who has time to make the meetings? If you mark off, they want to fire your ass now!

Name: RRJ E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 27 April 2011 Lloyd I haven't been gone that long less than 2 years. I understand the frustration. Rules were changing quicker than one could learn them before they'ld change it again. Carrying bullitens printing copies was a daily chore then doing the quarterly reissues it was 2"-3" thick or better. I never understood it. Their ruling people to death so to speak. Rules on top of rules when you already had a sufficent amount of rules in place. Management when I left 90% didn't have previous railroad experience if they had any mabey a year at most. It was a joke. I didn't get frustrated I just let them think they were in charge. I did things their way it seemed to always make me overtime. If they were sitting in their cars watching I just made sure everyone was aware and go strictly by the book. I had a few heated discussions when they'ld harrass newbies on the lead while we were trying to switch. No one should be made to feel uncomfortable while doing their job. The unions never had the right to strike under the RLA that'll never change. When I mention change I'm referring to issues that are local. One of the last BLET meetings I attended they were discussing sending 5-6 people to confront the GC because of frustration of being ignored. Worst thing happening are these on-property contracts. The unions are moving away from power in numbers with national contract negotiations but left one important issue healthcare under national negotiations. That doesn't make sense. Last elections for local officers I help count ballots seeing I didn't run for an office for the first time in 25 years seeing I was retiring a total of 30% bothered to vote. Whose fault is it when people aren't involved? It wasn't that long ago union meetings were standing room only now if lucky 10-12 people show up. Whose fault is it? Don't you think the railroads know this fact?

Name: Lloyd E-mail: Employed as: Brakeman, for 10-20 years Posted: 26 April 2011 Hey RRJ, you don't have to get too personal if you don't want too, but just how long have you been retired? I'm just curious because I've always wondered the kind of rule changes you saw or if you were around to see just how bad the management is now out here. One of the biggest issues I have with our unions is that they don't ever talk about what is bothering all the men out here or do anything about it for that matter. We get contracts forced on us and we have all heard we cannot strike so what good does negotiating do when we have no power anyway? The way I see it, I'm paying a monthly fee for very little representation or none at all. Some LC's actually do their job and some are just out for the time off and couldn't get a claim paid if their life depended on it. From what I have seen happen since I got hired, it seems like CSX has both unions in their back pocket and its a "if you scratch my back, I'll scratch yours" game. Obviously the lesser of two evils are the unions but with this ridiculous new attendance policy and bid system that completely favors the company by making sure everyone has a spot or is cut off makes you wonder just how hard our unions fought for all of us. Hey, maybe I have it all wrong but it seems like everyone is fed up with shit out here.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 26 April 2011 J.V. "PISSYPANTS" MILLER SELKIRK NY SOMEBODY PUNCHED THAT PIECE OF CRAP J.V. AND HE PISSED HIS PANTS AAAHAHAHHAAHAHAHAHAHAHHA

Name: RRJ E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 26 April 2011 When I left in 2009 it wasn't the same railroad in which I hired out. I certianly won't disagree that it's hasn't become a difficult place to work. I also realise that once those gauretees were put in place on the extra boards plus rest days on freight pools life on the railroad was going to change. The only reason time off wasn't an issue years ago was because we didn't have rest days without a gaurentee on Xboards they loaded them up an it was feast or famine while working it. As for the LC's the members voted them in office. They can be voted out next election in fact they can be removed by impeachment on a majority vote. If that happens the 1st VLC takes over if there is more than 6 months left in a term then a special election must be done to vote in a new LC. There are remedies people just don't take the time to avail themselves of them to take action it's easier to complain. If you've been a conductor for 30+ you should know this already.

Name: almost E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 30+ years Posted: 26 April 2011 RRJ I've red your post countles number of times. These young rroaders are right.. This place does suck and the unions are in bed with the company.. Our LC has been off since 23rd ub was available for a day before that when he was laid off co. HEy thats what you get when you vote a good man out and put a newhire in. My point being is its hard to take getting charge letters in the mail because you laid off 25hrs in 28days meanwhile the lc has been off all week with the company. LC greatest responce "they can do that" System Notice 108 should have never happened the unions didn't do anything and if nothing can be done why belong to a union. P.S PETE is a fag P.S.S JiM is his old lady

Name: RRJ E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 26 April 2011 Alright I guess some of you can't handle the truth. You want someone to feel sorry for you wipe your snotty little noses ect....Whatever happened to being a man? Taking responsibility for your own actions. When a newbie admits he has nothing to lose he hasn't spent that much time at CSX and hates it. Why stay? Walmart, McDonalds, Burger King ect...are hiring. In Fact last week McDonalds had a session trying to get 50,000 hired in one day. As for being "brain dead". I just collect those nice RRB retirement checks every 1st of the month. People ask all the time what are you doing with yourself now that you're retired it's always the same answer "Anything I want". So whose really brain dead Junior? You're the one out there whining about the mean old TM's hiding in the bushes. Complaining you have no time at home the unions suck ect..... Well, I did it for a lifetime now I'm collecting the rewards. Quit if you don't like it that's always an option. lmfao

Name: oby E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 20-30 years Posted: 25 April 2011 rrj your full of shit and brain washed

Name: RRJ E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 25 April 2011 CDSUCKS You do have a choice. If you don't like it already why stay. Chump change? I take it you can find a better paying job elsewhere. It's not going to get any better. Quit then you'll only be a statistic quickly forgotten 1 out 5 quit within the first year. It's not for everyone. As for the union I'm sure you've never been to a meeting but I'll give you credit mabey one. You haven't a clue how it works. They aren't there for your beck & call unfortunately the local LC's have to work for a living also. The unions are only as strong as it's members. There are hundreds possibly thousands waiting to get a rail job. I guess some people haven't starved enough to appreciate what they have on the railroad.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 30+ years Posted: 24 April 2011 RETIRED NOW, HAD A 36 YEAR CAREER. IT WAS MOSTLY MISERABLE. FOR THE LAST 10 OR 12 YEARS OF MY CAREER I REALIZED THAT CSX IS JUST A JOB. DON'T TRY TO MAKE A SILK PURSE OUT OF A SACK OF PIG DUNG. JUST A JOB, IT WILL NEVER CHANGE, JUST GO TO WORK, & GO HOME, GET YOUR MONEY & GO HOME & FORGET THAT CSX EVEN EXIST UNTIL YOU DRIVE BACK ON THE PROPERTY. IF YOU ARE IN LOWER MANAGEMENT, YOU ARE SCREWED. IF YOU TRY TO MAKE RAILROADING MORE THAN JUST A JOB, CSX WILL CONSUME YOU. THE RAILROAD IS NOT YOUR LIFE. YOUR LIFE IS YOUR FAMILY & YOUR HOME.. IT IS JUST A JOB.... YES, IT DOES SUCK.. GET THROUGH IT, YOU'RE GOING TO LOVE RETIREMENT.. THERE ARE 6 SATURDAYS & 1 SUNDAY EVERY WEEK.. THE RETIREMENT PLAN IS SO MUCH BETTER THAN SOCIAL SECURITY, IT WILL MAKE ALL OF THE LONG HOURS AND BEING AWAY FROM YOUR FAMILY & MISSING MOST OF YOUR KIDS GROWING UP EVENTS WORTH IT, MAYBE EXCEPT FOR THAT MISSING THE KIDS THINGY, IT WILL BE WORTH YOUR WHILE. ALL OF THOSE CROSSING ACCIDENTS, I PERSONALLY WAS IN MORE THAN 60. SEEING PEOPLE CUT IN HALF, PEOPLE WITH THEIR HEADS CUT OFF, DEAD, BRAINS ON THE FRONT OF THE ENGINE. CRUSHED, DEAD BABIES & CHILDREN, SEVERED ARMS, LEGS, THE SMELL OF SOMEONES GUTS OPENED & FECAL MATTER, YOU WILL NEVER FORGET THOSE SMELLS & SIGHTS. YOU WILL HAVE EARNED YOUR RETIREMENT. SO ENJOY IT. YOU'RE GOING TO LOVE IT... DID I SAY, "IT'S JUST A JOB."

Name: CDSUCKS E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for Less than 1 year Posted: 23 April 2011 I wish I had another choice. I haven't been out here no time and I can tell this place does suck and our unions suck worse.. I'm living out here no chump change is worth this.. Hey fat ass union rep quit laying off to blow Peter.

Name: RRJ E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 23 April 2011 Robofuq It's gets even worse. Under bids your vacation with the automatic mark up is just 7 days if someone wants a few more days better schedule PL or DV days. I didn't like the bid system at least not the way it was done. There wasn't a lot of thought put into it.

Name: RRJ E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 23 April 2011 Cond 1-10 Lawsuit? Attorneys? It would never happen. All union options must be exhausted which includes arbitration. By the time that happens the statue of limitations for a court case would have expired. What would you sue over? Breach of contract? Let the LC handle it. Good advise quit taking 48 hours. What contract are you under at this time? If you fall under the new UTU/CSX SSA that 48 hours is gone. Bids might of not started up at your area but the old agreements are gone.

Name: Robofuq E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 23 April 2011 Displacement time will eventually be a non-issue, when conductors go under the bids system like the engineers have now. It's already in the mainframe. It is only a matter of time. This company wants you to spend most of your life working, or waiting for the phone to ring. Read the section 6 notices for the current contract negotiations. CSX wants to improve your home life while minimizing time unavailable. HUH?!?!?

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 22 April 2011 those who are being charged for riding their 48 hour bumps. should hire an attorney because 48 hour bumps are contractually allowed,and any breach of that contract is grounds for a lawsuit.

Name: M Ward E-mail: Employed as: APE, for 30+ years Posted: 17 April 2011 BNSF Fatal rear end collision. Crew member warned about laying-off? Numbers game would require 3700 TE&Y system wide to combat fatigue for an additional $250,000,000 in wages and benefits!

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 16 April 2011 I wonder where that scab ass Cody wiil go?

Name: Eddie E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years Posted: 16 April 2011 This place does suck.. I do have a lot of money saved. I don't have to spend any. I'm never home if anyone is thinking of coming our here. Save yourself a lot of headache and find a different job. There all kinds of people on fmla so they can just layoff ever now and then. The union reps are all laid off company. Not a one thing has been done about this joke of an attendance policy. All conductors out there they're starting to charge men for being off displaced again. So thats over now also. Not sure if I hate csx or the two jokes of a unions most

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 13 April 2011 2010 FRA On Duty Fatalities - CSX Leads 753 Railroads http://csx-corruption.com/2010-fra-on-duty-fatalities-csx-leads-753-railroads/ Thanks to this sites administrator for helping distribute this information!

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 12 April 2011 J.V. MILLER IS A LOSER RETARD. A TRAINEE KNOCKED HIM OUT A COUPLE MONTHS AGO. THIS GUY IS A PIECE OF S#*& IM SURE NOBODY DISAGREES.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years Posted: 11 April 2011 ********** DATELINE----APRIL 11th 2011********** ********* NEW SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERY FINDS THAT THE LAWS OF GRAVITY DO NOT APPLY ON CSX TRANSPORTATION PROPERTY...... THE PLACE JUST SUCKS...... THAT IS ALL*******************************************

Name: Oh E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 1-10 years Posted: 11 April 2011 Sure would be nice if Murphy would take his fat ass back to Avon, and open a spot for one of guys who wanna work.

Name: terry E-mail: terrycarter5@yahoo.com Employed as: Conductor, for Less than 1 year Posted: 07 April 2011 thanks for all the advice,, i have talked to someone ,,and i think we are going to move forward...and to prove i'm not joking C.S.X if your reading this , check my id h9367,,, now lets play

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Engine repair, for Less than 1 year Posted: 04 April 2011 why would anyone want to work at this sorry outfit, all of these stories are true on here, and I know they are. You people are being treated like slaves, anyone with any kind of trade or other skills, can make more money and be treated better. Everyone should write letters to your congress and let them know how crooked these so-called unions are. This is the most corrupt bunch of shit that I have ever seen. With a lot of people writing these letters, we can unite and stick together, you can basically bypass your crooked union and unite and conquer these crooks. And that my friends is forming a real UNION.

Name: cater E-mail: terrycarter5@yahoo.com Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 29 March 2011 i'am lookin for a good Discrimination lawyer please e-mail me at terrycarter5@yahoo.com

Name: Howard Cunningham E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 27 March 2011 Fonzie Just apply and try. Best to never say they fired you just say you had another issue. Mr. C

Name: RRJ E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 27 March 2011 fonzie First off no need posting on every thread. Secondly you're screwed maybe a shortline will hire you. I doubt any class 1 would give you another chance. Being furloughed is at times a way of life on the railroads.

Name: fonzie E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 27 March 2011 I worked for csx 2 years ago due to being layed off every other week i decided not to go back after i begged a diffrent company to hire me back for the secomd time due to the railroad layin me off To make a long story short i was sent a letter of termination in the mail sayin i didnt mark back up in the required time My craft was trains and engines I was thinking and wanting to get in a track gang would csx consider hiring me back? And would any other railroad hire me Or am i basically screwed for being terminated from csx With other railroad outfits? Any insite on this topic id greatly appricate it thanks ;]

Name: RRJ E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 25 March 2011 feez Times have changed there's more rest time then years ago. BLE got the engineers 10 hrs undisturbed rest back in the '90s. Under the FRA it's now manditory 10 hours. Under the BLET SSA an engineer can drop their pool to the bottom once a half they can schedule early mark off for rest days. Then throw in the FRA manditory 6/2 and 7/3 more time off. Today there are PL,& DV days we didn't have them years ago. Sure it's tough only being at CSX for 6 years but longer you stay PL & vacation time increases. That takes seniority. You can't get it overnite it's never worked that way at any job not just the railroad. The railroad is what it is. No one ever told them it would be easy. I'm sure it was discussed in hiring sessions at the REDI center then they got a taste of it while training. That's 3 chances to quit before getting marked up. Then "feez" you want to stir it up with you'll never make as much as an oldhead. Guess what 4 decades ago I didn't make as much as an oldhead. That takes SENIORITY. No golden spoon out here. More a person works the more they make. That's one thing I never questioned. I never looked at what someone else made. Trip rates brought everyone up to par. I will commend the LC at my terminal he wasn't an oldhead he took the time an established trip rates that were pretty accurite. He didn't accept a first offer like a lot of LC's. You accepted the job offer as it is. That's your fault not CSX. You make good money sure in the begining years it might be tough but that should make a person tougher.

Name: NoMo E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 24 March 2011 Hey Other: Unless things have changed, there was always an eight hour window. For Trainmen it was R8, for engineers it was 10. If you were lucky enough to hold a regular yard job or extra board job, you had a day(s) off. Might not be the day you wanted but...oh well! On the road side unless you worked the extra board or a mine run with days off, the only way you got time off was to mark off. The RR is like a marathon, you must pace yourself. Today, the FRA requires mandatory time off!

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 24 March 2011 8 hour window is what the Unions need to do. Call me or leave me alone. That will never happen, because the Union has no Power. They are so weake as not to ask for it. An 8 hour window 24/7 would be so nice for train crews. However now we have the Guarantee. How about doing away with the Guarantee, and getting the lay off privileage. Now that is a real deal. So many options for the Unions to work on, yet they do nothing.

Name: been there, done that, left E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 10-20 years Posted: 24 March 2011 http://www.dilbert.com/strips/comic/2011-03-23/ if the unions had any backbone, we'd have an eight-hour window every twenty-four hours when we're required to take a call. the RRs don't care that being on-call 24/7 for 12 hours on duty plus transit time will send you to an early grave. they don't care that you'll wake up one day and realize that you haven't seen your kids in years, since your wife left. apparently they don't even care that it's UNSAFE to be forced to work on a freight-train full of HAZMATs when you're tired. it saves them money in the short-term, and that's ALL that counts to them. when things go right they always take credit - when things go wrong it's always the employees' fault. you'll NEVER make as much money as the old-timers, but you'll spend a lot more time away from home doing it. for anyone without friends or family (or self-respect) CSX can be a great place to work. but as soon as you start talking about marriage, friends or family you have to decide whether you want to be around for people you care about or married to the railroad. you can't have both, and most wives won't put up with the RR. they'll leave and take your money, house and kids when they go. the RR has to up their game if they want to attract and retain responsible and capable employees in the 21st century.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 24 March 2011 366 days,8 days a week,25 hours a day...This is what is expected of a CSXT employee...We know it's impossible,but if there was a way to get around it and put an extra dime into Burrus' bonus fund,they'd damn sure find a way to incorporate it.God forbid a man/woman to want to spend time with his/her family or have a medical condition that needs attention or possible surgery.P.T. Burrus doesn't care about an employee,nor the welfare of that individual's family.So long as Burrus looks good for those above him,and puts a big fat check in the bank at the end of the year,he could care less if you and your family are starving and no longer have medical coverage.CSX claims to be about the safety of an employee,but you can do everything right in accordance with the rules for your entire time of employment and never miss a day,never "sharp shooting", and never get so much as a fkn cookie.Take one step backwards into a spot you were just in,you will get fired.Take one day off to be with your family,you will be fired.Take a day off to go in for a surgery,you will be fired.Leave a piece of paper that has nothing to do with your division out of your mountain of papers to carry,you will be fired.Miss a day of work because you were told the company will be shut down due to holiday and they call you in anyways,and you miss the call,you will be fired. So while you're sitting in your cold dwelling,never smiling,never a kind word spoken between you and your spouse,wondering where your next meal will come from,and fifiguring where to cook it if you had one,people despising you and thinking you're a loser for not being employed,wondering how you're bills are going to be paid,hoping like hell that you or a family member doesn't become sick or injured because of no medical coverage,and you just wish life would end, STOP and think about your "so-called" managers and bosses sitting in the warmth of their own homes,eating steak and "high-fiving" each other,smiling at their wives and enjoying their children,and laughing at you because they fired you for a reason that was immoral and injust,not only in moral man's eyes,but in those of God himself."Do unto others as you would have them do unto you" does not apply in CSXT. This company is not for the welfare and safety of an employee. It's about who can fire the most employees and who can make their wallet the fattest amongst it's managers. Diversified and ethnic my ass. I've spoke my piece and these aren't opinions. They are facts based on my knowledge and experience in the 6 years I've been with CSX. Peace be with all my fellow employees and their families. Management can kiss it and find their own way in life......Thank you.

Name: RRJ E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 24 March 2011 If you want to watch your children grow up be part of their life don't go to the interview. It's a railroad you'll be gone most of the time. No one takes advantage of anyone on the railroad. It is what it is. When a person gets called to work they never know for long they'll be gone or how long they'll be at home till the RR calls to go back to work. There are no scheduled jobs on the road a person is on call 24/7. There were times I didn't see family for weeks because I'd get home in the early AM and back out before they got home from school & work. It's not for anyone that feels a strong need that they have to be with their family. The plus side it will provide a decent living with healthcare and a good pension.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 24 March 2011 Hey guys ! Going to an interview next week for "Freight Conductor"... anybody got any inside info on what i can expect from this job and company? Im not afraid of hard work, but I am afraid of being taken advantage of. I have two small boys, and seeing them grow is important to me. however, so is a decent paying job to provide for them. Thanks guys, any info or comments would be great!

Name: RRJ E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 24 March 2011 Don't know Chuck Baker. I know John Baker is an arsehole. I'm sure when he retires as a RFE CSX will be a little better to work at.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for Less than 1 year Posted: 22 March 2011 What did Baker do?

Name: E-mail: Employed as: APE, for Less than 1 year Posted: 19 March 2011 Chuck Baker will burn in Hell someday. Wonder if he will still get joy out of hearing himself talk and patting himself on the back.

Name: robofuq E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 18 March 2011 I made the best of it. Working third actually gave me more time with my family then any other shift. Now I got enough whiskers to hold a good spot on the road, and even though I can hold a yard job with weekends off, the money is too good to pass up. With a 14 day move available with the B+O, I can bounce into the yard when I need a break, without losing too much. Money or time off.

Name: RRJ E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 17 March 2011 Robofuq When I left 18 months ago the best I could hold on a yard job after 32 years was second shift if I was lucky Sun/Mon off never a full weekend that took 34+ years to get. Which didn't bother me. I liked it better less officials you could sleep in late still get things done around the house and if you got off at 2300 still go out for a few drinks.

Name: Robofuq E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 15 March 2011 When I worked the yard, I remember griping about being stuck on third shift. An old head overheard, and piped in "That does suck. You know what's worse? One day you'll stop breathing!"

Name: RRJ E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 14 March 2011 Lloyd I don't know what to say. It's either adapt or be miserable. I just thru the Chipolte thing in there because I found it funny in an article I read that morning they got busted using 40 illegals in of all places Washington DC. Beat CSX at their own game go by the rules slow it down. That's not happening there are a lot of people getting time in the street violating the rules doing short cuts. Like suzannah wrote when she got hired the training was bad now it's 10 times worse. I got a call from a friend that finally got in engineer training after 4 years CSX decides their going to promote them early cutting the training by a month. Was CSX short handed? CSX has engineers cut back. Seems it's just cutting cost. Lloyd the only jobs left to be home every night for the family is the one man remotes in the yard. The few engineer yard jobs left in Richmond it takes 33+ years to hold.

Name: lloyd E-mail: Employed as: Brakeman, for 10-20 years Posted: 13 March 2011 Guys, I don't know how long you have been reading this site but I've been trying to get a sick out for at least two years now. Is that the answer? Probably not..but it will get them where it hurts..availability. I know I know, some will say we are railroaders and we should live like their slaves since they pay us so well and people are lined up waiting for our jobs. Horse shit. This company treats people out here like trash. If it's not screwing someone out of some claim, it's working someone so much they are becoming an insomniac from never being able to sleep because they are so damn tired!! Take the lifestyle, being away from family, and the fact we have to take anything the company throws at us (hello union) working for CSX basically sucks. Oh, I shouldn't single them out, I mean most all Class 1 railroads who could care less about anyone who works over the road. It's only a matter of time before a major disaster or tragedy happens out here because everyone is fed up, tired, and aggravated with the way things operate out here. If you aren't tired of it, this is probably the only job you have ever had or you just like to suck on CSX tit. Hey RRJ, I'm almost ready to start flipping burgers or bagging groceries, wont be long now.

Name: Ray E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for Less than 1 year Posted: 13 March 2011 Fred and Jim Bob, I agree with both of you. I have not been out here very long but I am a 4th generation railroader and know what things used to be like. I also understand that change is sometimes good. However, this SSA deal with the L&N and all of that is a bunch of bullshit. I was hired before it all took effect and now they have said that they went back to the original signature date of June 2010 even though the L&N didn't sign until October. If its a "system" wide deal then how can you go back and date it prior to when the last part of the "system" signed it. Now I'm questioning whether or not I even have a future with CSX. So now you're telling me that a person from God knows where can come and kick me as long as they were hired before me??? How does that make sense? The quick cure to all of this is for the MEN and WOMEN of this company to stick together. But you can't get that because there are too many greedy bastards who want to suck on the company and kiss their asses. I say vote the union members out and get someone in there who will stand up for the men. Let the company try to pay me off if I were a union rep and see what happens!!! They are simply out to fuck us to get what they want. We, the hard working employees, need to stand up and do what we can to fight for our rights.

Name: Fred E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 1-10 years Posted: 13 March 2011 Jim Bob, I agree with you. I think most of our upper union officials are on the take. (Both unions) The leadership isn't worried about us, until election time. I find it amazing how at election time, suddenly they are interested in our concerns and working conditions. I think there should be time limits on all of our upper union officias. The ones that negoiate our contracts should have to come back out in the field and live under the same agreements they forced on us for several years before they can retire. Maybe if they had to face the people they screwed over, they'd think twice. If you need a recent example of the union selling out their members, look at what the UTU did to the L&N Conductors last year. The UTU withdrew from the national agreement when they presented their members the Conductor's SSA. When the agreement didn't pass, the UTU leadership told the L&N conductors, guys.....Ahhhh..... we withdrew from the national agreement and no longer have an agreement to fall back on. If you guys don't accept th SSA agreement you voted down, we'll have to take what ever CSX offers us. When the UTU went back to CSX, CSX offered them even less than before. What a shock

Name: RRJ E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 12 March 2011 Jim Bob Hate is a strong word. The BLET membership voted in these SSA style contracts only looking at bonuses not the agreements that can continiously be modified by BLET/CSX dispute resolution committees. In 2007 I spoke my piece against this style contract when the GC's and VP Paul Sorrow held town hall meetings around the system to get this passed. It fell on deaf ears. The worst issue is only 50% of the members bothered to take 5 minutes to vote for the 2007 SSA and it's 2010 continuation. Did you vote? No one admits to not voting that would make them look foolish. I don't know anyone still working that hates CSX they dislike it's policies it's management style ect....but they don't hate it. If someone feels that strongly then they should quit. I know the economy sucks blah blah blah!!!!!! The truth is it's their railroad do what they want. The unions ignore the harshness of these policies especially the one on attendance. I just read Chipolte fast food joints are hiring seeing they got busted again for hiring illegal immigrants. I'd be more worried about the attitude of states like Wisconsin, Ohio, Illinios, Indiana, Idaho ect...stripping state workers unions of their rights. After it's all done the private sector will be next. Guess what the railroads under the RLA have a lot of federal restrictions. A bad union is a lot better than no union. That's where this new generation of railroaders have to get involved get active in their locals/divisions it can get worse.

Name: Jim Bob E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years Posted: 12 March 2011 I agree with you Joe. They try to screw the employees any way they can. If it was up to the company pricks we would never be off. The union is paid off or they wouldnt agree with half the shit the company forces on us. All the unions do anymore is take our money and dont do a fucking thing for us. It makes me wanna puke to give them a peice of my pay check.This job sucks more everyday Id say at least 90% of the veteran employees feel the same way. Almost everybody I know hates this outfit.

Name: Joe E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 09 March 2011 Hey,On The Road Again. You're right, if you're working 6 or 7 days in a row, you should have 3 days off, but CSX has found a way around it. I was called for the Q593 last month at 2200. We took the train from Avon to Terre Haute. We tied down the train and closed out our time ticket at 0420. The Q594 inbound brought their train into Terre Haute. We got on, headed to Avon, and our new time ticket started around 0500. You would think, HEY NEW TIME TICKET ON A NEW DAY. This counts towards the number of days in a row you've worked!!!! WRONG. I worked 6 days in a row on the conductor's extra board. But because CSX said that they consider taking one train to a location, then bringing another train back from the same location as you delivered a train, without time off in between trains combo service, its sorry about your luck, and I had to keep working until my day off. I worked 6 days in a row, and the UTU rep I spoke to sided with the company. I can see why the old heads are saying the UTU now stands for U Took Us. I have no issues working on my rest, and I'll work any train I am called for. I knew what I signed up for when I took this job. In my humble oppinion, every time ticket on a different day should count towards earning that 6 and 2 or 7 and 3 rest. Not the jobs that the company decides should and shouldn't count.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 07 March 2011 APE, Eat less, sleep less, should be, Sleep less, eat more. No way to sleep a little and not be hungry. RR folks can sleep for hours and never eat a thing. ???? Off to Daytona with my old 77 BMW Friday. Yep the end of Bike week, Just the way I like it. Roll into the Hampton Inn on the south end around 2-4 pm Saturday, and ride A1A for a few days. I do love being a Senior citizen with both ends of a ride kinda at will.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: APE, for Less than 1 year Posted: 07 March 2011 A simple survival guide: A proper diet; if you sleep less--eat less. Stay completely away from the gloom and doomers. A dollar earned and a dollar saved...presents a purpose in life.

Name: RRJ E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 06 March 2011 NoMo If it was a woman I'd be going to Daytona & NOLA. It's some work that needs to get time that has time constraints. It's alright. Hopefully it'll have good end results.

Name: NoMo E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 04 March 2011 Hey RRJ: Busy? Must be important...what's her name? ;)

Name: RRJ E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 04 March 2011 It's not going to get any better. Why should it? What others percieve as being unfair working conditions they knew about before they made the choice to hire then decided to continue on thru the training process. It's the railroad and they move freight. The lifestyle fits those with military experience especially retirees better than anyone. If people think it's going to change they better get resigned to the fact it is what it is. I do think the unions should get up off their lazy arses and do something about these attendance policies. Of course if they did they'll always be those who'll take advantage of mark offs. It can get worse after these rebellious governors and states that are trying to do away with public service unions right to collective bargaining get their way it'll happen on the private sector next. If people don't think corporations aren't in the shadows behind this then their just plain ignorant.

Name: Lloyd E-mail: Employed as: Brakeman, for 10-20 years Posted: 04 March 2011 Hey On the Road Again... You make some good points but me and you both know the railroads play games with these FRA days. You can be on 5 straight in the hotel and they will call you at 1205 on purpose! You lose your straight time and the same scenario could happen again and again. As far as the soon to be wife or wife of the man who is working for CSX, prepare to deal with this until he either quits or you quit. This company doesn't give a shit about you, me, or anyone else who has anything to do with the railroad. They say they pay us on "inconveniance" and if that is true we all should be making over 6 figures. By the way, most guys who do enjoy their jobs for any railroad..not just CSX, probably have comfortable yard jobs, some kind of normal schedule, or they have completely lost touch with reality and have just accepted this lifestyle because they know they wont find another job that pays as much. It's really a sad state of affairs.

Name: On the Road Again E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years Posted: 03 March 2011 I have been married to my wife for 15 years and CSX for the same length of time. The lifestyle,is not for everyone. It can be one of the most unhealthy, and will dramatically shorten the lifespan of those who do not take care of themselves and what they put in their bodies. To all potential wives and wives of new hires, etc...If you don't like it have your man get out now, or you get out. This site is CSX-Sucks, but I will say it work/rest is not a CSX thing, it is a railroad thing...Your man still got his 24 hour rest day, just when he gets off duty...we all have done it before...on the other end of the spectrum I have rode the extra-board for 2-3 days without working right into a rest day...sometimes you win/some you loose. Some advice for you and your man...a true railroader never makes firm plans, and if he has to be off he will find a way(although it is getting harder to do). I have missed birthdays, anniversaries, etc, luckily for me my wife has been understanding, and we always make sure my time at home (between runs, rest days, and vacations) is special family time. If your man is working so much, day for day as you say, 7 Days in a row by law he would be getting 3 days off in a row see the 2008 Federal Hours of service law. If he works 6 days in a row, 2 days off. 276 hours per month working and no more... Back in the olden days before(1970s), it was 16 hours on duty, 8 hours rest, no monthly cap, no rest days. Before the current 2008 law it was, up to 12 hours on duty, 8 hours rest when on duty less than 12, 10 hours rest when you outlawed(us hogs would show relieved at 11hrs 59 min, just so we could turn faster and not have to take 10 hours off)

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 30+ years Posted: 03 March 2011 Disgusted CSX Wife Are you a wife or fiancee? I would suggest you do not marry the guy, that's the way the RR works and a nagging wife won't make his life any easier.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Friend or family of employee, for Less than 1 year Posted: 03 March 2011 My fiance has worked for CSX less than a year, and I am CERTAIN the sudden appearance of gray hairs in his head are because of his job. He is a conductor on the East coast. Let me talk about this craziness for a moment. I have plenty to say but will stick to the subject of work schedules. These CSX conductors work 6 days/wk, sometimes 12 hrs a day (14 if you include the travel time to & from their job locations). They get 10 hrs of rest time after clocking out. Something that has been grinding my gears lately is that my fiance will be working like this all week, then the day before his day off, they will CALL HIM IN for a job that works him INTO his DAY OFF. So let's say you work Monday through Saturday, you get off work Saturday morning around 10am. At 8:01pm, CSX can call you (because that's your 10 hrs of rest). So now, it's the night before Sunday, (your rest day) and you're getting ready to chill out, relax, watch a little TV perhaps and go to bed for the night with your wife. Your phone rings at 8:50pm and it's CSX calling you in for a job that starts at 11pm... Technically it is still Saturday, but in 1 hour after the job starts, your day off begins. You certainly aren't getting called in to only work for 1 hour! So you go in at 11, then end up working until 11am Sunday, your DAY OFF. By the time you clock out & get home, it's 1pm and pretty much your off day is shot. Now imagine they do this to you EVERY WEEK. Would you continue to work for this company? This is asinine! What kind of work schedule is that? Then CSX has the nerve to claim to be all about "safety, safety, safety" yet they expect these human beings to work like this nonstop practically with NO days off (since they constantly shaft workers by calling them in when they're scheduled to be off). Ever hear of "burnout"? Jeez. CSX doesn't care about it's people. It's a fat-pocketed corporation that only cares about lining it's pockets. Nothing more. Also, from what I hear, their "union" is a joke. They are spineless, yellow-bellied cowards that don't want to do anything, except (like the CSX CEOs) sit on their bums and collect a paycheck off the backs of the front-line workers. Just sickening. ~Disgusted CSX Wife

Name: RRJ E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 03 March 2011 NoMo Not going to make it this year. My sister has only been on her job less than a year I don't want her taking time off. I'm busy right now don't have the time. I also had to turn down an offer for Daytona Bike Week.