You'll do what yer told, you little &%#$@!!!     CSX likes to picture itself as a company where all of it's employees, customers, and contractors are treated with the highest levels of courtesy, professionalism, and respect. The employees, customers, and contractors know differently....

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: u know who E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 25 May 2013 Big Brother, So you think the UTU local chairman's at Avon are bad, go about 1 hr. north of Avon off of I-65 and take a look at the BLE local chariman. This guy is so far up the Trainmaster and RFE's ass it's pathethic. All the guys/gals are talking about what he did to Fuller. I guess kissing company ass has it's benefits, all those hundreds of texts and phone calls with local managers to shoot the shit and dime out fellow employees finally paid off. Hell, he was probably on the phone with a manager when he lost control of his train and took out the Bumping post at Rensselaer. Good thing for him he burned up the phone with Management and pinned it on his conductor.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years Posted: 24 May 2013 I hear LBT is at it again, i hope karma get to her someday.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Employed in other capacity, for 10-20 years Posted: 24 May 2013 Has anyone heard that the "big" Mr.Brown from the training center in Atlanta was sent to Savannah because he was caught living with one of his female instructors? Someone said her name is Beckham. Karma finally got him. He treats people like dogs.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for Less than 1 year Posted: 24 May 2013 I see Cxs is still screwing over new hires all I can say is karma

Name: Retired FRA Inspector E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 24 May 2013 Hey NoMo: I believe I also spotted some FRA managers in that line. And that makes sense because it is FRA policy to partner with railroad management.

Name: NoMo E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 24 May 2013 Here is the CSX management and front line supervisors getting their annual physicals! http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x658f_1st-annual-small-penis-contest_news#.UZ-K3aLVCHM

Name: E-mail: Employed as: APE, for 10-20 years Posted: 24 May 2013 I just wanted to say.....I met Brian Barr recently for the very first time. I had heard that he was fat, but DAMN! That mothafucka got a built in neck pillow!

Name: E-mail: Employed as: APE, for 20-30 years Posted: 23 May 2013 The big problem with thinking all local chairmen are lusting for low level management jobs is that these jobs are really not that good. Pay is modest, hours not great, fringe benefits have been reduced, and of course respect and status are nonexistent. Check the large number of trainmaster trainee vacancies. The scary thing is that those people that really view this as a step up are usually very marginal types that are DESPERATE for the perception of success and will do anything to get or retain it. That sort of person acts in a manner that - sooner or later - will lead to giant lawsuits against a very prosperous company.And, CSX now have an image as a wealthy company with money to spare when they do wrong.

Name: Retired FRA Inspector E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 23 May 2013 I often wondered why the new generation of TMs, RFEs and superintendents are such jerks. If these guys sold out their union brothers and sisters to get on the ladder, then they had no morals or ethics to begin with. They are like snakes in the weeds...ready and willing to strike at anyone. That might also explain why very few union complaints were lodged with FRA during the last few years. During my first twenty years with FRA, I investigated hundreds of union complaints. And the vast majority of them were valid. But then the complaints began to taper off. Perhaps the railroads are looking for ruthless supervisors and managers who will intimidate employees. And those who will get off on seeing employees disciplined and fired. A union official who sells out his brothers and sisters would be just what these railroads are looking for. Managers with no conscience! What more could a corporation with a hard-on for employees ask for?

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Yard Master, for 1-10 years Posted: 23 May 2013 HIP HIP HOORAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i agree with the post below you call it like it is.

Name: NoMo E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 22 May 2013 Hey BB: Tell it like it is...don't sugar coat it. Fuck Harris, Connors, Jerrell and Berry. That's a shitload of (s)cum sucking bottom feeders. Oh well, CSX gets what they pay for!

Name: Big Brother E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 22 May 2013 So Avon's the best? Yea, I'm down with that. I'm just wondering which UTU local chairman posted that crap on this site. I know it wasn't Erik Belew. He's the only UTU local chairman at Avon that still has a pair of balls, and willing to stand up for his employees. Erik's not that good about returning phone calls, but he's good at bringing the company to their knees. Unlike the Yard or West end UTU local chairman, they don't bring the company to their knees during a hearing, they're to busy being on their knees in front of every manager's desk as they sell out their members. (and thanking THEM afterwards. "yes sir, may I have another.) So Avon's the best. Lets see. You have two of the three UTU local chairmen owned by the company. Both the West end and Yard UTU local chairmen (Company sucks) have been promised company jobs in the future. What's worse, the company officials at Avon will openly discus this when the crews ask if this is the case. The UTU yard local chairman failed a drug test that was given during his physical to become a train master in Chicago. The West end UTU local chairman openly answers to the name Company Super Suck. This UTU local chairman wants the job as CSX's New Hire Trainer, on the Great Lake's Division so bad, that he's been openly selling out his members at every turn. "Oh, just take the wavier. Its best for everyone if we don't fight this. If we did, it could be worse" He fails to mention to those few remaining members he has, that CSX gives him a safety day for every member talks into taking a wavier) Everyone knows that the west end UTU local chairman is selling his members out to show CSX, that when his record's clean, he'll be a good company team player. He was even been heard bragging to several people, on several occasions, that he's in tight with Joe Barry. The west end local chairman said that he's told Joe to go after his black former vice chairman because the two had a falling out, and if Joe got him on anything on him, the UTU wouldn't put up fight, or much of a defense for him. So yea, Avon's the best when your one of two UTU local chairmen, looking towards a career as a company officer.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 20-30 years Posted: 21 May 2013 Avon my ass the best, apparently that person does not work in that yard to make such a comment. The guy that runs the terminal is a piece of crap and the puppet's that work for him aren't any better.

Name: NoMo E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 21 May 2013 Hey FRA: When it comes to posters, the Avon hands are probably # 1 on this site. I'm surprised the poser hasn't been flamed yet. They are probably too busy rolling on the floor in hysterics to flame them...it's coming though. Tim Cook is a local boy from Foley, AL...nice guy. He inherited most of these tribulations when Steve Jobs died. I have a brother-in-law who went to work for Burroughs after he graduated from Syracuse in '74. He managed to work his way to EVP of Unisys and was the heir apparent as CEO. He resigned in '01 because he was disgusted with what Corporate America had become. At the time his salary was $250K bonus of $750K and stock options of $2mm not counting the other little awards and perks. My point being is this is nothing new, and has been coming on for the last 30 years. You know when a man of 49 quits a wheel-horse job like that because he's fed up, there serious moral and ethical problems. As far as "Star" goes...she can go to church and pray for us!

Name: Retired FRA Inspector E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 21 May 2013 Hey NoMo: I wonder what that individual at Avon is smokin? Must be darn good! And on another note, I couldn't help but envision the poster 'Star' being a stockholder, or the wife of a manager. Either way, he or she won't find too many niceties said about CSX on this site! But those just mentioned would try to avoid the truth about how corporate America generally treats their employees. Especially while attending church on Sunday morning in their hoity-toity attire. I wonder if Mr. Apple Computer, who is now testifying before Congress, sports his Sunday best once a week? And this goes on when the kids in Oklahoma couldn't even be afforded a tornado shelter. Very sad!

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years Posted: 21 May 2013 Avon is the best yard running!!!!!, they are perfect, the employees running it could not be any more honest. The management treats their employees with so much respect. I say cudo's to them. The other yards need to take note and follow exsample!!!!!!.

Name: NoMo E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 21 May 2013 Hey FRA: Who woulda thunk prudes read this site? I quess someone is holding a gun to her head!

Name: Retired FRA Inspector E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 20 May 2013 As in the case of nasty corporate managers and greedy stockholders, words from Webster often fall short when accurate descriptions are needed. And I truly believe that none of the slang words used on this site can compare in nastiness to the way many employees are treated by management. I even received a taste of that nastiness prior to my retirement from FRA. I don't believe that anyone else has ever complained about the language used here, but I have only been monitoring this site for seven or eight months. Perhaps the webmaster can enlighten us regarding any previous complaints. I personally vote for the freedom to post as one desires. On the other hand, some do go too far. But I believe in freedom of speech. And let each be judged by what he or she posts.

Name: star E-mail: Employed as: Friend or family of employee, for N/A Posted: 20 May 2013 I have to say their should be rules against the profanity that is used on this site. Will someone do something about this. Please someone take control so people who have something of importance to post can do so in comfort. People will not take anything you post with a sexual or profanity seriously.

Name: NoMo E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 19 May 2013 Hey FRA: I knew it was you:) The only thing you should inspecting is the caboose, your wife's of course and and the fluid level in the JD bottle! It takes a while before you realize the it's your ears ringing and not the motor...you just have to be careful if you dream your hear water rushing:)

Name: Retired FRA Inspector E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 19 May 2013 Hey NoMo: I must have forgotten that I was retired when I last posted. Actually I do have recurring dreams that I'm still inspecting, but then I realize that I'm no longer on the FRA payroll and wonder why the hell I'm doing it for free. The slide show was great. This planet is indeed awesome! But it makes one wonder why corporate ass holes and the stock holders they work for care so much for money. Enjoying nature is free, and hurting others is not necessary in order to enjoy it.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years Posted: 19 May 2013 Hoyer: Are you back to playing your cowardly games again? Who is it in Ashtabula that you have a hard on for? People don't get away with anything more out there than anywhere else. They discipline and put people on the street just like other yards, and YOU KNOW THIS! Grow up retard!

Name: NoMo E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 19 May 2013 Alright fellow scumbags, it's time for some culture. Enjoy the slide show and the music's not bad either! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsXPdrJZC6E

Name: NoMo E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 18 May 2013 Hey RSI: In order to be a thief, you have to be cunning and quick witted.I think anyone that knows Milton knows he isn't qualified to be a thief:) Maybe not even a YM. He's no damn good but he's alright. Not only did he run for Commissioner but he has run for several other positions as well...and lost. His big problem is he is a Democrat...around here, that's like being a turd in the punch bowl! He use to catch unmitigated shit at Gentilly from everyone, including yours truly. Pensacola was more his speed. It's funny how every terminal has one. There was one in Mobile, Randy French that worked afternoons. He never got it like Milton did but he got his ration of shit daily. Of course after being married 34 years, I've had my fair share...maybe they came to work for some relief!

Name: Railroad Safety Inspector E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 18 May 2013 Hey NoMo: You know what they say, "it takes a thief to catch a thief!"

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

Name: NoMo E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 17 May 2013 Alright Gentilly, Sibert and Golding here's one of your own...now stay with the video...he's the pudgy bald headed guy with the CSX Polo on. He caught a lot of grief over the years...he even deserved most of it!!! http://www.local15tv.com/content/fightingback/story/Fighting-Back-Revitalize-Neighborhoods/-kSzfW3qDEm4WIMx6Kgudw.cspx It was a nice neighborhood before the RR trash moved in; but with Fair Housing, what can I say! He even had the nerve to run for County Commissioner in '04 and the guy he lost to was indicted for murdering his "other" woman. Hell they even did a 48 Hours on him a few weeks back.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years Posted: 17 May 2013 To the post below, why name names, nothing is going to happen. We can inform all we want and report, report, report, and nothing happens to the managers. You hear it all the time that managers and higher up do unethical things and still not even a slap on the hand, enfact i have heard the managers laugh after the shenanigans they have done. When you read a couple of post below they even mention some of the names that rule with an iron fist and still nothing happens. I know managers that have been turned into the ethics hot line many times what happens NOTHING!!!!!!!!.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 16 May 2013 RE; Last Post; Conductor 10-20 years: It seems like you're hinting at double standards. If that's true; name the managers and the incidents that takes place and don't be bashful about it. When management makes it obvious and seek-out a certain group of employees; the group that's sheltered are usually involved in the most serious accidents. Keep precise records and informed the harassed group(s)of what's going on with the possibility of filing a whistleblowing claim.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Employed in other capacity, for 20-30 years Posted: 16 May 2013 Conductor 10-20 Your are correct and not posting anything that anyone doesn't already know. Do you know why CSX supervisors of higher rank behave that way? Its because they are expected to do so. Remember the rumored head hunting memo that was put out by the GLD Manager that ordered an increase in failures and write-ups...the memo that some supervisors still have but don't have the guts to circulate.... the memo that clearly show what the mentality is towards the employees.... Well, it does exist and will always stay out of eye view of the real workers. CSX has adopted the same conquer and beat mentality that the NS had with previous Managers that they took on board after the NS used them up and tossed them out. It is a rule to keep 1% of the employees on the street in one form or another. This sends a message that "WE CAN AND WILL" put you on the street any time we please. So what if your union finally gets you your job back. It cost you everything and us nothing. We will find someone to fill in for you while you are gone. Take a real good look around you. Why is it a particular group of employees always seem to be under the target while other groups always slide by. Why is one group of pool or local jobs always followed and stalked while others are left alone? Corner and ask your TM and RDF on the road why employees working one direction are hammered twice as hard as the others. Look at the Local chairman on the "BABBIED" side. There is more going on under the surface that you cant see! Remember the Mutual Accountability program that was supposedly put into place a few years back. Like everything else, it has gone to the wayside. It no longer exist. Higher ranking supervisors have been reported for misconduct and nothing has been done. The ethics committee does not follow through properly and your unions are taking a back seat and a blind eye. Don't expect it to get any better any time soon. Like all new rules in csx.... they aren't put into place until blood in drawn or a law suit is filed.

Name: NoMo E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 15 May 2013 Don't rank on the Witch Doctor...he'll mess with you! Look what he did with my name in the previous post...long distance Mojo!

Name: http://jadulaspelltemple.blogs E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 15 May 2013 Voodoo...Mojo hands...Black cat bones...Chicken feet!!! This use to be a respectable site... http://jadulaspelltemple.blogspot.com/...well,maybe this Whitch Doctor can conjure up a spell or two for Frulla, Harris, Jerrell, Connors, et al!

Name: Mario Jack E-mail: mariojack50@gmail.com Employed as: Employed in other capacity, for Less than 1 year Posted: 15 May 2013 am back and better I promised to tell the world about him that's why am posting this here...all thanks to DR JADULA...there are so many fake spell casters out there I was more than scammed heartbroken and almost gave up all hope until I met with him...now am so happy... If you have issues mail jadulaspelltemple@gmail.com...he sure would help you he casts all kind of spells

Name: CorrUPtion Blogger E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 12 May 2013 Independent Thinkers Needed With No Personal Agenda: The Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers & Trainmen, provided a booklet highlighting their 150th anniversary. The booklet included two recently disgraced leaders who were indicted and or incarcerated for various indiscretions against the membership. The organization proudly displayed those past leaders without any hint of censorship. Correct me if I'm wrong; I believe one of those presidents is still incarcerated. What message is the current leadership sending too allow disgraced presidents a free pass at the expense of the members? Corruption is corruption in any form of government or organizations!

Name: Retired FRA Inspector E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 11 May 2013 Hey NoMo: I would like to second that emotion and to also extend it to a few individuals that make FRA what it is today!

Name: NoMo E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 11 May 2013 Happy Mutha's Day to all the Mutha's that make CSX so special!

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Friend or family of employee, for Less than 1 year Posted: 11 May 2013 I cant imagine no one liking dave harris!!!!!!! LOL!!!!!!.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 1-10 years Posted: 09 May 2013 Hear Hear!!!!!!! to the comment below.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 10-20 years Posted: 08 May 2013 FINALLY SOMEONE SEE'S DAVE HARRIS FOR WHOM HE IS. DAVE HARRIS IS A BULLY,AROGANT,STRONG-ARM,BROWBEAT,BALLYRAG,INTIMIDATING,JUST BAD CHARACTER FOR A MAN,ECT. DAVE HARRIS LOVES TO INTIMIDATE EMPLOYEES HE GETS OFF ON THAT, HE DOES NOT LIKE PEOPLE. HE ONLY WANTS TO CLIMB THE LADDER THATS ALL HE CARES ABOUT.I HEARD BEFORE FROM A VERY GOOD SOURCE THAT HE KNOWS, THAT HE TALKS TERRIBLE ABOUT PEOPLE. IN MY OPINION WATCH HIM!!!!!!!! AND HIS LITTLE --- BUDDIES. IM SURE HE ALSO STRONG-ARM'S THE ONES THAT HAVE TO TAKE HIS SHIT ALL THE TIME (TRAINMASTERS), THEY ARE AROUND HIM ALL DAY.

Name: Fact Checker E-mail: saveamerica.org Employed as: Friend or family of employee, for N/A Posted: 06 May 2013 Union Officer's Salaries: http://www.unionfacts.org Query the name of any union officer to verify annual reporting. The Feds requires carriers (paid to union officers) and union officers to report salaries from any source of compensation on LM-30 forms.

Name: Freddie Krueger E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years Posted: 06 May 2013 Looking for intel on a manager named Helmsly?

Name: Retired FRA Inspector E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 04 May 2013 They were also in a fuel savings kick back in the early 1980's. I remember how they were actually trying to pull pig trains with one locomotive. On one occasion, while I was inspecting at Willard, a single GP40 arrived with an eastbound pig train. They said that 10 m.p.h. was all they could get out of it, due to headwinds from the east. And on another occasion, a single SD35 with an eastbound pig train died between Fostoria and Willard, and a locomotive was sent from Willard to tow it in. But after the Huntington Locomotive Shop filled up with toasted traction motors, and the repair bill greatly exceeded any possible fuel savings, they backed off and began adding more locomotives to trains.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 03 May 2013 Now any engineer worth their salt will tell you that you've used more fuel running two engines in notch 8 for the entire trip, which will take many many more hours longer, vs using three engines, but the CSX bean counters don't see it that way,===================== Not sure of this my man. You want 3 loco's CSX says 2 is enough.I have never seen any t/c want less power. Kinda like the local school system, we need just a little more. Now prove your point.

Name: Blue E-mail: Employed as: APE, for 1-10 years Posted: 02 May 2013 APE Who is the GC, and which union did CSX buy? If you know something, say it. We did the guessing game on this site a few months back. That got really old, really quick, and I'm to old to play that game again.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Friend or family of employee, for N/A Posted: 02 May 2013 CorrUPt General Chairman? Can salaried GC maintain a paid position with the carrier? He is the highest paid GC with his combined salaries. $325, 000.00....Understand now why the members have the worst agreements.

Name: Retired FRA Inspector E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 30 April 2013 If I were a CSX employee, I sure wouldn't eat anything that CSX management bought. What's it worth anyway? Just a few bucks, that's it. And as I see it, these free food events might just be an enticement for not reporting injuries. On the other hand, it could be an enticement for not getting hurt. But the problem there is that no one actually plans or decides to get hurt. I don't believe that many Corporations have ever really cared about the welfare of their labor force. But they sure care about the bottom line. And reported injuries affect the bottom line more today than they ever did. I observed many of these free food events taking place while I was employed at FRA. And when I was invited to join in, I solidly declined. I told them that if the railroad bought it, I wouldn't eat it!

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years Posted: 30 April 2013 THIS PLACE IS REALLY GETTING HILARIOUS, I KNOW OF AT LEAST 6 TRAINMASTERS WHO HAVE RESIGNED IN THE LAST COUPLE OF MONTHS. IS ANYONE INTERESTED IN BECOMING A TRAINMASTER??? HELL NO! I THINK THE MESSAGE IS BECOMING MORE CLEAR AS TO HOW BAD IT IS TO WORK FOR CSX.

Name: NoMo E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 30 April 2013 Hey Avon Employee and John: I hear you, consider it done. They're on the '13 Turd Watch List. I believe if I was at Avon, my back would suddenly start hurting, probably from throwing that switch...you know, the one we keep writing up! Pay me now or you won't get paid later! What a bunch of twits.

Name: AVON EMPLOYEE E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 30 April 2013 WELL WELL WELL HERE WE GO AGAIN. DAVID HARRIS IS HAVING A SAFETY FEED AT AVON TODAY (04/30/13) ONCE AGAIN DAVID HARRIS HAS MADE SURE THIS SAFETY FEED WAS SCHEDULED AROUND THE YARD CREWS, AND FOR THE YARD CREWS. YES, YARD CREWS ONLY. (WHAT???) YES, YARD CREWS ONLY. PER DAVID HARRIS'S ORDERS, THE 900 DAY SAFETY FEED IS FOR YARD CREWS ONLY. Screw ALL the road crews that didn't get injured during the past 900 days while switching out all of the bad orders that the remote yard crews at Avon didn't get around removing. David Harris doesn't have to look the road in the faces if and when he comes to work he only sees the yard crews. Once again, David Harris has made it abundantly clear with his THIRD safety feed this year that is scheduled for and around the yard crews, screw the road crews. That's right David Harris DOESN'T GIVE A DAMN ABOUT THE ROAD CREWS, because if he did, when he post signs that say 24 hour feed, he wouldn't restrict the times to 11-1,6-8pm and 10pm to midnight. Maybe CSX didn't teach David Harris how to tell time when he hired in. TWENTY FOUR HOURS MEANS TWENTY FOUR HOURS. NOT 11-1, 6-8PM, AND 10-MIDNIGHT, WHEN THE YARD CREWS TAKE THEIR LUNCH BREAKS. David Harris went out of his way during the Face to Face Classes to tell ALL AVON EMPLOYEES, when Avon reached 900 days, he would hold a feed for EVERYONE that included steaks. What David Harris meant was, a Steak Knives in the back for all NON YARD CSX employee. NOMO. Please nominate Avon Terminal Superintendent David Harris for this weeks's CSX piece of crap award winner, and the end of the year Brown Banana Award

Name: John E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years Posted: 29 April 2013 Other Non Employee To answer your question. Yes RFE Tinsley is doing his job when he downloads engines. This wasn't the point of the post. It was a heads up to the other engineers that Stuttering Dave Tinsley has decided he wants to move up in the company. Stuttering Dave thinks by following in Joe Barry's footsteps, and charging every employee for even the most minor of mistakes, he'll gain favor with CSX management, and move up the corporate ladder. Here is the problem with what Stuttering Dave Tinsley is doing. Lets say I am stopped on the line of road for some reason, for example, to come into the yard at Avon. The Dispatcher says "I'll get back with you in a few minutes" A few minutes turns into 30 minutes before you hear "South runner, talk to the hump" from the dispatcher. Your train tonnage is 8500 tons, and you have all 3 of your 20+ year old wide body engines on line in order to run track speed. RFE Dave Tinsley is now charging crews for not turning off the two rear engines while they were stopped for more than a few minutes. He is also charging the same crew with violating the CSX fuel conservation rules. Two of the wide body engines provided enough power, according to CSX for you to run your train from point A to point B. While your train wouldn't have been running at track speed, that doesn't matter, two engines would have provided enough power to run the train from point A to point B without the use of the third engine. Now any engineer worth their salt will tell you that you've used more fuel running two engines in notch 8 for the entire trip, which will take many many more hours longer, vs using three engines, but the CSX bean counters don't see it that way, and neither does Stuttering Dave Tinsley. To him, you are just a body that he can step on, on his way up the corporate ladder. He doesn't care if his actions put you out of work for a while, and mess up your life. Stuttering Dave want's Danny Jarrell's job, when Danny moves up the ladder to Jacksonville. The Dave we use to know as a good guy is gone. He's lost weight, stays awake on those rare occasions he's on a train anymore, and he's pawned off the hard work on his disciple, Avon East RFE Chris Eaton. SO...... HEADS UP AVON ENGINEERS, RFE STUTTERING DAVE TINSLEY HAS JOINED THE RACE FOR THE CLARABELL AWARD ON THIS SITE. HE'S TRYING TO OUT DO JOE BARRY WHEN IT COMES TO CHARGING THE MOST EMPLOYEES EVERY MONTH.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 29 April 2013 Tell me what is wrong with this. I see this as just a check, nothing more. I understand getting over the road. We cut in switch engines destined for a yard job to get over the road. Just do not understand a directive to cut the power and that is violated. Bet most are done correctly as instructed. Name: John E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years Posted: 25 April 2013 Train Dispatcher Thanks for the heads up. I heard Dave Tinsley mention to a few of his "pet" engineers that he has to download the trailing unit on at least one road train a day, and send the information in to his (suck buddy) Danny Jerrel everyday. Tinsley said if the trailing unit wasn't shut down when it wasn't needed, the engineer would be written up. Per Danny's orders of course.

Name: Luke SkyWalker E-mail: Employed as: Brakeman, for 20-30 years Posted: 28 April 2013 Gay Ward Vader’s Jacksonville Death Star is fully operational and used to eliminate any Alliance worker slave if they resist to the Empires operational desires. There is little hope for the Alliance as long as Gay Ward Vader is controlling the CSX Empire. Most Alliance union reps are assimilated into the Dark Side and will not come back since they have acquired the Dark Side Immune Defiance Syndrome. May the Force be with You

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

Name: NoMo E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 27 April 2013 Imagine this with a few modifications...a real company man! http://anthonysblog.net/the-worlds-most-painful-tattoo

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Corporate office, for 20-30 years Posted: 27 April 2013 CSX wants to be on the cutting edge of new things so someone has had a brainstorm to implement a new CSX Whore Value and persuade all management to show their loyalty and get a Company Tattoo. Wonder where that idea came about ? http://shine.yahoo.com/healthy-living/employees-get-company-logo-tattooed-on-185920539.html CSX welcomes your Tattoo designs You can submit them on here or thur the gateway.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years Posted: 26 April 2013 OUCH!!!!!!!! Im sure dave harris is JEALOUS over the last sentence on the post below,(he was left out).

Name: Jason E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 26 April 2013 Hey Locomotive Engineer 20 - 30 OUCH. THE TRUTH MUST HURT. O U C H !!!!!! Did Engineer John hurt your feelings Loco 20 - 30? Did John talk the truth about you and your Daddy Dave Tinsley by calling him Stuttering Dave, and pointing out what a low life RFE Dave Tinsley has become? When Dave lost all that weight, and started staying awake when he rode trains, he lost all of the compassion he had towards the men that worked for him. When Danny Jarrell came along, Tinsley dropped to his knees and started doing and screwing whoever he thought would take him along for a ride to the top of the CSX ladder of shame in management. And by the screwing part, I mean screwing over the men that work for him. Dave turned his back on ALL OF US, and has been screwing us over, hoping to score points with GLD RFE Danny Jarrell. Since Dave Tinsley started screwing over his own men, Dave's started stuttering when he talks (and is lying) to the men who use to think he was a decent guy they could count on and trust. SHAME ON DUMB DAVE TINSLEY for being so gullible to believe what a company officer like Danny Jarrell says. If Dave hasn't figured it out by now, CSX LIES. Dave Tinsley is no better than that piece of crap Joe Barry, if not worse. We all know Joe is a piece of crap. He doesn't hide it, but Dave pretends to be a decent guy, while he and his new side kick RFE Chris Eaton shove a knife in your back, then laugh about it with Danny Jarrell over drinks at the strip clubs in Indy.

Name: John E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years Posted: 26 April 2013 Hey Locomotive Engineer 20-30 Are you speaking from the voice of experience, or worried you might have competition under Stuttering Dave's desk. Being you swallow, and you have years of experience bent over or under Stuttering Dave's desk, don't worry man. I don't swing that way, and can't hold a candle to you, or the arse pounding Stuttering Dave gives you on a daily basis. Company sucks like you make the rest of us Union MEN that work hard to provide for our family, sick. But Hey Locomotive Engineer 20-30, Thanks for taking one for the team, keeping Stuttering Dave busy and in his office, and drinking Stuttering Dave's personal protein shakes that he makes for you daily. Hope the swallowing you do for Stuttering Dave and CSX helps you keep your job, and paying into my retirement plan for just a day longer.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 20-30 years Posted: 26 April 2013 Hey Johnny Prepare to get doggy fucked by your new buddy Dave Old Joe B will be instructing him how he does it and how you like it. Hope you got your DeRail Insurance all paid up

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

Name: John E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years Posted: 25 April 2013 Train Dispatcher Thanks for the heads up. I heard Dave Tinsley mention to a few of his "pet" engineers that he has to download the trailing unit on at least one road train a day, and send the information in to his (suck buddy) Danny Jerrel everyday. Tinsley said if the trailing unit wasn't shut down when it wasn't needed, the engineer would be written up. Per Danny's orders of course. Heads up everyone. Stuttering Dave Tinsley has turned into a snake in the grass. I'm not sure if he mastered the art of being a low life snake from Joe Berry, or he's decided to step it up a notch on his own, and finally trying to get out of Joe Berry's shadow. (Out master the master) Dave has been getting most of his write ups of late sitting on his aese in his RFE office. You know the office, its the one where Stuttering Dave Tinsley is hiding behind a locked door or under Danny Jerrel's desk, far from reach of we employees. I'm guessing Dave knows what he's doing is WRONG, and why he's been stuttering so much of late. Stuttering Dave Tinsley is also hammering engineers for not doing their standing and running brake test when they leave the fuel pad. Stuttering Dave charged 9 engineers last week with this very thing. Be very careful around Stuttering Dave Tinsley, he's half the man he use to be in more than one way.

Name: NoMo E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 25 April 2013 Let me get this right...corrupt Union Officials = higher profit margins for the carriers? Although I'm sure the carriers contribute to the officials vacation and college funds it would take a lot of cash to bribe everyone in the loop. It would be hard to hide that amount for long. I think creative accounting, reduction in work force and increased rates have more to do with it.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Friend or family of employee, for 30+ years Posted: 24 April 2013 Magical Profit Margins Explained: During the last decade; the major carriers discovered the art of higher profit margins. Corrupting Union Officers! The railroads through out its history has never experience sustain profit margins as experience in the last decade. Even during any combined combination of profits; 100 years prior to the last decade.

Name: NoMo E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 24 April 2013 Don't know how it works today but there was a clause that stated a union member had to be "in good standing" or they would be removed from the rolls...if I recall correctly, "good standing" had a morals connotation attached. Stealing should be enough to have him removed from the rolls. I think YMs are represented by the UTU. I guess it's okay to steal if you are stealing from the "other" union!

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

Name: Legal Adviser E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 23 April 2013 RE; JoAnn: The railroad brass are like Army Generals; any perceived threat of authority or position; extreme measures will be taken at all cost. After all; it's the taxpayers money--and or corporate funds. The robber baron's bottom line are based on limiting capital improvements and limiting (penalty) claims paid to TE&Y employees. The latter is concealable if the carrier can bribe union officers (local chairmen)--too not process claims that were denied to their members. The carriers usually bribe union officers with safety captain position or simply pay them--their claims. If you know of any corporate thugs bribing union officers; then you would really have something that gets political attention. There's an old saying like in Watergate: Follow The Money... Good Luck!

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

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

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

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

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Employed in other capacity, for 10-20 years Posted: 16 April 2013 Wake up it is time to consolidate our unions call your local Teamsters office to get assistance with representation. Go to: https://nlrb.gov/forms download NLRB Form 502 – petition. Download form and get signatures, let us end our differences and consolidate for the benefit of the employee.

Name: u know who E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 14 April 2013 I, What are you talking about the BLE L.C. getting on board with the new management. If you're talking about the L.C. that I think you are he's always been a company man just like the BLE L.C. that preceded him. Watch the way he acts when a company officer walks in, enough said.....

Name: Retired FRA Inspector E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 14 April 2013 VAMBO RAMBO: Now.....those little Chinese kids worked real hard making that watch! I too am very glad to be away from the nasty trainmasters and superintendents. But I do miss visiting with the union folks. I was always on your side.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Friend or family of employee, for N/A Posted: 14 April 2013 RE; APE & Nasty: Regarding the corrupt union officer; the name is Ed Rodzwicz. He did get caught bribing an attorney for $20K. Just google his name or rail union corruption, and you'll get many many hits.

Name: VAMBO RAMBO E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 30+ years Posted: 13 April 2013 I am so so so glad I am out of that hell hole and retired. Do I miss it hell no. No more union dues no more book of fools and POD tests. No more dealing with lame stupid ass trainmasters. And what does CSX give me as a retirement gift a cheap ass watch. Like I am really going to need a watch now. Good riddens CSX may there be wrecks everyday somewhere on the system. Free... Free at LAST

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Train Dispatcher, for 20-30 years Posted: 13 April 2013 Watch out Great Lakes Engineers. They are writing up a bunch of engineers for have to many locos online.

Name: Retired FRA Inspector E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 12 April 2013 It all boils down to ethics. Some people have them, and some people don't. And the only thing that keeps the ethically challenged in check, is the watchful eye of the ethical. But outhouse rumors and speculation must be avoided. The accused must be given a fair trial. And one unethical apple should not cause the entire bushel to be labeled as such. Because it is up to the ethical to promote the common good, complacency must be avoided. Far too many people in the U.S. do not question the policies and motives of politicians or union leaders. They often accept what they hear as being correct, without weighing both sides of the argument and deciding for themselves what is right. Also, people must determine who a politician or union leader is working for. Are they working for you or are they working for their own interests. If they are protecting the interests of corporations and the wealthy, they are definitely not working for us. Follow the money! And always keep in mind how corrupting money is.

Name: I E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 12 April 2013 New management at the terminal I work at, and it did'nt take the BLE L.C. long to get on board with management. Already giving the T.M. and RFE info on who is good and bad workers and diming out others for the sake of making himself look good. What a Fucking mental midget......

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 12 April 2013 APE 1 yr and Nasty, Unfortunate is the fact that there are bad apples in ANY industry, however that being said I don't believe the casual and outside look you present here represents Union Officers as a whole. Most aren't "in it for themselves" as you claim. Most are in the job to better the working conditions for the membership PERIOD. Perhaps if you had more time on the railroad and didn't look at only what you want to believe and are fed by our wonderful media, and took the time to show up at your local union meeting you might start to view otherwise. Biased Opinions such as yours presented here are nothing more than baseless misinformed bullshit and serve to do nothing else than prove how baseless and misinformed you are about what REALLY goes on in the union world. Try stepping up and serving others than yourself, do that and then you might have a reason or rationale for some of what you espouse, until then you're nothing other than a company troll on this site.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: APE, for Less than 1 year Posted: 12 April 2013 RE; Nasty Company: Speaking of your BLE/UTU union bosses; never count on them...they are solely in-it for the money without comprehending who they are up against (Harvard lawyers and Robber Barons). All TE&Y agreements are templated and requires no cerebral thought or ideas beyond their limited imagination. In other words, the TE&Y members are in battle against the union bosses and management. Here's an example of overt corruption: An International union president, offered a FELA attorney who's firm was eliminated from the member's recommended legal service directory by the international committee board. The corrupt president circumvented the board's decision and contacted the ex-FELA attorney and demanded an initial $10,000.00 cash bribe; payable immediately and the remainder $10,000.00 payable at the next scheduled regional meeting (within weeks). The attorney paid the initial bribe and thought that he was being blackmailed and contacted the proper authorities. The attorney was wired for the next meeting and WALLA (NAB)! That one international president was willing to accept $20,000.00 and expose the entire membership (55,000) to substandard representation for his own personal gains. In essence, a minute amount, that amounted to approximately 33 cents a member in real time monthly dues. The union officer was later indicted and removed from office. My point is this: When you see a union officer being paid for phantom safety meetings; think about who he's representing. Trivial question: What is the name of the union officer and organization of this subject and many international officers (ble/utu) were remove and convicted of serious crimes against the members that they were intrusted to represent? Never be afraid to challenge your union bosses, they are human just like our politicians!

Name: Stildragon E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years Posted: 12 April 2013 For the folks near New Orleans familiar with him- Trainmaster Todd West was recently seperated from the employ of CSX. They should have done it long ago. Rots of Ruck todd.

Name: Nasty company E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years Posted: 11 April 2013 IT'S TIME TO STAND UP AGAINEST OUR UNIONS AND DEMAND MORE THAN B.S ...or face a law suit ..WE PAY THOSE FOOLS FOR NOTHING...I vote for a class action lawsuit ...They love our union dues but do NOTHING FOR US....

Name: Nasty company E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years Posted: 10 April 2013 Guys ..Here is the bottom line.CSX will indeed do anything and everything to you.If it benefits the company.But here is some food for thought.We pay our unions to protect our rights as laborers, and to in force the AGREED CONTRACTS.I HATE CSX but the company can only get by with crap if the PAID unions allows it..I believe that I hate the unions (BLET/UTU) more because I pay them to screw my eye balls out..until the unions band together and fight then will we lose the battle.. GUYS IT'S TIME THAT WE EXPECT MORE FROM OUR UNIONS..the fox is in the hen house..A DIVISION MANAGER STATED " THE UNIONS WERE BOUGHT OFF YEARS AGO" Fact !!!!!!....if it walks like a duck AND ACTS LIKE A DUCK THEN IT'S A FREAKIN DUCK BOYS!!!!!!!

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Train Dispatcher, for 20-30 years Posted: 10 April 2013 Re: La Mort Rouge I have multiple sick days that CSX and ATDA agreed to. If we mark off sick every saturday for weeks in a row, we know damn well that person will get written up for attendance policy. Yes, it sucks.

Name: La Mort Rouge E-mail: Employed as: APE, for 20-30 years Posted: 09 April 2013 On our division an employee is currently serving a seven day suspension for riding his two day bump.I understand this is a union agreement but it is in conflict with CSX's availablity policy. Since when does a "policy" override a union agreement? After this policy went into effect I asked my local chairman how could this be. The gist of his answer was,"Well we'll wait until someone is in trouble for this and we will get this overturned". That day has come and gone and true to form,the union did nothing about it,just empty talk and chest pounding. CSX does truly suck but the unions let them get away with this BS. CSX is claiming a manpower shortage but is this the answer to solving the problem by suspending employees over petty offenses when they could be marked up and ready for their next call? By the letter of the law,so to speak,he is not gulity of anything;he was living up to the agreement.

Name: Retired FRA Inspector E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 09 April 2013 APE: Could you give an example? I am aware of instances when railroad union officers took management positions, but I never heard of an actual bribe. As I have stated in other forums, the railroad unions need to stop fighting each other, and start fighting for the common good of all union members. Top union officials should be ashamed of how they have neglected the real needs of members. Especially when remote control was first introduced by the class I's. I would not be surprised if the UTU actually has fewer members now. And just imagine what will happen if FRA gives its blessing to one-person main line operation! While I was with FRA, the only bribe I was ever offered was a quarter (25 cents). No I didn't take it. But I did tell the guy I would report him. A long time ago, I heard of an FRA inspector that allegedly took bribes. But that was the only time. And I believe that if it was true, it was an extremely isolated situation. Coziness has always been the big problem. FRA and other Federal agencies have gotten way too cozy with the entities they are supposed to be regulating.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: APE, for N/A Posted: 08 April 2013 Just a thought: Bribing union officers is the rail carrier's path to higher profits!

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 20-30 years Posted: 08 April 2013 Rumor has been heard that J Swafford is going to be VP of Locomotive........anyone else heard this?

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 10-20 years Posted: 06 April 2013 POOR ROGER ZIELGER of Rocky Mount, NC. The lastest trainmaster to get demoted back to your tools. 28 ethics complaints in the last 30 days alone. Now you can join your fellow demoted A'HOLE trainmaster buddies like Philip Crous and Derek Gibson. Maybe you can go meet Tommy Bullock at the liquid house for some advice. What will Rocky Mount do without you ???

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Train Master/ supervisor, for 1-10 years Posted: 05 April 2013 WHAT A GREAT JOB! WHO CAN I FIRE TODAY? WHO CAN I TALKED TO LIKE SHIT? OR MAYBE I WILL TRY TREATING MY EMPLOYEEES LIKE I WOULD WANT TO BE TREATED! NO THAT WOULD GET ME IN TROUBLE GUESS I WILL TREAT THEM LIKE SHIT BECAUSE THATS THE WAY CSX TRAINED ME TO DO IT!!!!!!!!!

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 05 April 2013 CSX COULD CARE LESS ABOUT YOUR SAFTY!!! JUST MOVE THOSE TRAINS OR WE WILL FIRE YOU! GOOD JOB CSX HIRE MORE TRAINMASTERS OFF THE STREETS THAT KNOW NOTHING ABOUT RAILROADING! BUT THEY SURE KNOW HOW TOO ACT LIKE A BIG SHOT!READ MORE BOOKS THEN YOU MIGHT LEARN HOW TO GET TRAINS OUT OF THE TERMINALS ON TIME!!

Name: Retired FRA Inspector E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 01 April 2013 Hey Trainmaster/Supervisor: I assume that you were one of the trainmasters that treated T&E employees with respect and dignity. The other kind seem to stay around forever. During my years with FRA I had the misfortune of meeting many of the nasty ones. But when they got nasty with me, I just went over their locomotives and freight cars with a fine tooth comb. I would be very interested in hearing what happened to you and what division you were assigned to. May I suggest applying for a job at NS? Several years ago, a retiring trainmaster told me that NS had decided to start treating it's employees more kindly. It was realized that a lot of good employees were quitting because of the way they were being treated.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Train Master/ supervisor, for 1-10 years Posted: 01 April 2013 I was a manager at CSX for a few years. If you are thinking of going to work for this company run the other direction as fast as you can. I was recently fired just because. I have the whole thing recorded and am strongly considering posting the conversation on this site. Maybe this will make them squirm just a little.

Name: NoMo E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 01 April 2013 I thought this article made a very valid point...oh, I also think CSX resembles this remark(s)! http://lifeinc.today.com/_news/2013/04/01/17503051-youre-quitting-employers-could-be-blindsided-by-turnover?lite

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years Posted: 31 March 2013 Happy Easter!!! March 31, 2013....and CSX STILL SUCKS!!!

Name: QG 15 E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 26 March 2013 @ cond. 20-30yrs Recheck your facts. CSX does not contribute to every employees 401-k plan. They never put a nickle in mine or any of the others I worked with on the Mechanical side. And, the plan administered by JP Morgan, along with the very limited selections, sucks! It lost money consistently year after year, along with JP Morgan taking a $1000 annually to help me lose money.

Name: Fed up E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 20-30 years Posted: 26 March 2013 Sorry but the name should say "fed up".

Name: Feed up E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 20-30 years Posted: 26 March 2013 To the conductor 20/30 years.... Just because CSX does one thing right ( contributing to our 401k plan) doesn't mean that they need a big pat on the back..CSX will always suck due to poor management..have you ever the term "you have been railroaded" or " I have been railroaded" this term has been used for over 100 years..why ? You ask... Because the railroad takes what they want regardless of the consequences of the employee ...here is what I truly believe....# 1 ...the employee's are only human and not machines... # 2. The employee's need more family time..( railroad divorce rate is at 85% ) # 3 The employee's need a more structured job schedule.( regular calling times) # 4 the employee's need to be treated as if they do matter, and not just a EMPLOYEE ID...upper management needs to understand that if it wasn't for the employee's (the little man and women) that their fat butts wouldn't have a job either.. I believe that in order to be a manager for the railroad you first need to have at least 10/15 years of experience... These young managers are little punks that has never had anything ...If anyone ask me how to apply for the railroad I really do my best to direct them somewhere else..My God bless us as we try to make it to retirement ....

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Corporate office, for N/A Posted: 26 March 2013 re; Does CSX really sucks? The 401K Plan is the best amongst all major carriers!

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 20-30 years Posted: 26 March 2013 Does CSX really sucks? CSX contributes to all of its employees 401K Plan...the average account balance is $150,000.00. My friends works for the Union Pacific and UP does not contributes to their 401K Plan. I did research and the average balance for their employees is $50,0000.00. The website that tracks 401K Plans is: www.brightscope.com Be careful what you wish for...the grass is not always greener on the other side!

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Train Dispatcher, for 20-30 years Posted: 25 March 2013 CSX at its finest, what ever happened to hiring the best qualified candidate for the job? Is this a response to fines for reciprocity? Has this had any influence on the process associated with the hiring processes? To hell with EEOC, hire the best qualified, it’s the right thing to do. No special considerations for anyone. Let the best qualified candidate for the job be the best qualified candidate hired for the job. Check out CMC, EEOC at its finest. Definitely influential, first and foremost they have the strongest case of any department influence by EEOC policies administered by senior management to take advantage of current department directive to influence the EEOC policies initiated by CSX to promote the appearance of CMC compliance to reciprocity directives associated with the current settlement factors with the settlement conditions by the courts. But for those of us who really know, it's all smoking mirrors. It is all for appearance purposes, obligations for reprobation are being orchestrated by a non-operational essential department of operations.

Name: WTF E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years Posted: 23 March 2013 TIME TO RATE THE MANAGEMENT TEAM RATINGS 1 TO 10 1 = KINDA SUCKS 2 = SUCKS SLIGHTLY 3 = MAN U SUCK 4 = U SUCK BIG ONES 5 = U BOTHER ME SUCKS 6 = U SUCK AS A MANAGER 7 = VERY HARD SUCKER 8 = U COULD SUCK START A HARLEY DAVIDSON 9 = U SUCK SO MUCH IT HURTS 10 = U SUCK SO HARD U CAN SUCK A BASKETBALL THRU A MCDONALDS STRAW FIRST RATING BOB FRULLA = 11

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Corporate office, for 30+ years Posted: 22 March 2013 Screw the Feds I need your help to move me up the ladder at glassdoor.com http://www.glassdoor.com/50-Highest-Rated-CEOs.htm?utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=bceo-13&utm_content=bceo-13 Get on and vote for your fearless leader.

Name: Eddie Joe E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 22 March 2013 The Year of The Feds: The Feds will be indicting Railroads for bribes and kick backs? Stay tune for further details...

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 30+ years Posted: 22 March 2013 nomo: Stock prices in one company with a higher price per share; has no relevance in value to another company with lower cost per share. When valuing a company's market value; multiply the number of share outstanding times the share price....e.g., if company A has one million shares outstanding; and the price per share is $1...company A is valued at one million dollars. If company B has 2 million shares outstanding and the price per share is $400...company B is valued at 800 million dollars. A good book for the novice: Understanding Wall Street Starting at age 25 and investing $300 monthly; a discipline railroader can accumulate over $1,000,000.00 easily!

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 20 March 2013 Csx sucks , so true

Name: NoMo E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 20 March 2013 Hey Con 30+: Comparing a RR or any other industrial company to Apple or another High Tech company is a mistake. Apple's shares are down $250.00 each and their future business is based on people's vanity and the steady stream of new and more expensive products. 100 shares of Apple at $405.00 ea. is $40,500.00 100 shares of CSX at $24.00 ea. is $2,400.00 The rails are more akin to utilities... guaranteed to make money over the long run.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 30+ years Posted: 19 March 2013 Re; Stock Picker: The stock picker was right! CP is 6 times market cap; KSU is 5 times; CNI is 4 times; UNP is 3 times; (estimating that BNSF is 3 times cap compared to UNP); CSX is 2 times and NSC is also 2 times of its market cap. That's 3 1/2 times market cap on average. Apple Computer is over 2 1/2 times market cap with $140 billion in cash and no debt and a 25% profit margin. The railroad that has over a 25% profit margin is CNI with 27%. All other RR'S are below 20%. The RR'S debt ratios are extremely high compared to other companies with similar revenue and profit margins. The RR'S capacities has peaked. On average; train speeds are declining. And that indicates an overcapacity. Apple Computer can essentially buy a CSX type RR; and take it private; and put its cash hoard to good use. Apple could become a modern General Electric (Conglomerate)! Think outside the box...It works!

Name: NoMo E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 19 March 2013 Hey Picker: Not sure what you're getting at...the CSX market cap is $24.5 Billion and their net revenue is $11.75 billion that's 2.1 X and the P/E is 13.4 which is good. The stock price has firmed up due to the overall market but based on the fundamentals has lots of room to move up before it's overpriced. As for the business, that's to be decided. CSX doesn't impress me in terms of being a well run company. There's a sucker born every second and as long as they are willing to pay a premium for the stock it will continue it's run up...smoke and mirrors are a wonderful thing!

Name: E-mail: Employed as: CSX Contractor, for Less than 1 year Posted: 19 March 2013 CSX Safe and on Time, Hadji how many I help you today? C stands for more than Cheap scape let your XXX imagination ride on my magic carpet ride. Glad to be on board Rick

Name: Stock Picker E-mail: Employed as: APE, for 30+ years Posted: 19 March 2013 Railroad stocks are overpriced: Never in history has railroad stock prices (market cap) been valued at three times revenue. A collapse is imminent!

Name: Rick E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 18 March 2013 QG--15 You're right.!!!! LOL I must not have received my Hindi to English translation guide yet. Darn those cheap bastards in HR. :-/ You're right. This inadvertent "error" must have been part of CSX's cost cutting plan to increase upper managements bonus. After all, as we T&E employees have been hearing for years.... This is the 21st Century, and CSX is now a paperless railroad. LOL Thanks for the laugh. (After all, working for, and management at CSX, is becoming one big joke anymore)

Name: QG--15 E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 18 March 2013 @ Rick: You must not have received the Hindi to English translation guide from HR. It should have been in the packet explaining the management incentive bonus program, along with the letter on how the rest of you should bend over better.

Name: Rick E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 18 March 2013 Does anyone know if CSX subcontracted its computer help desk to India? Every I call the 1-800-Chessie Computer "help" desk, I get someone that speaks broken english, and has no clue as to why the CSX Citrix program isn't working. I know the C in CSX stands for CHEAP, so I wouldn't be surprised if CSX subcontracted the work out to the lowest bidder in India, but come on. What are we employees to do when the CSX "help" desk doesn't even understand the english language, let alone the problem you're having downloading or making Citrix work on your phone or computer.

Name: TenPlusYears E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years Posted: 14 March 2013 After being a loyal employee of CSX for over 20 years, there came a time when I needed CSX to be on my team they betrayed me. I was accused by an "Anonymous" caller (My Ex) of violating the covenant of my oath as a locomotive engineer to never do anything that would endanger myself, my crew or the public (besides the obvious doing my job). I had warned them prior to all of this that she would be calling and even told them what she would say. Of course when it did happen I was immediately removed from service and kept from service for more than 60 days. Of course when I went back they played "Dumb" like they had nothing to do with it and they had no prior notice. (Not that I never had a failed drug test EVER or anything) Long story short I feel betrayed by the company that I have given more that a decade to so now that she is charged with Felony Extortion for it (my Ex) I think I will forward this to federal prosecutors for them to look into CSX's actions......

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years Posted: 13 March 2013 Corporate office 1-10: Good post! That one explains exactly how bad it really is at CSX. I hate this company...CSX SUCKS!

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Corporate office, for 1-10 years Posted: 11 March 2013 Turnover is good at CSX We need to hire more new people and get tax credits plus paying out less at 80% for more bonus for management. 10 Reasons Employees Resign Jacqui Barrett-Poindexter, Glassdoor | Nov. 20, 2012, 6:14 PM | 5,509 | 8 • 7 Reasons Not To Apply For The Job • 10 Cool Office Spaces • How To Find A Career Mentor Good managers know very well how expensive employee turnover can be and work diligently to keep those costs at a minimum. It is a fact that not every employee can be retained no matter how fairly they are treated, and some are actually welcome to leave. Below are ten reasons employees resign, along with suggestions for retaining those valuable players that are hard or impossible to replace: 1. Employees Feel Underappreciated. Those who leave for this reason aren’t looking for a pat on the back every time they show up for work on time or finish a task. They simply need to be reminded from time to time that their contributions are a value to the team. Ignore them for too long, and they will seek that appreciation elsewhere. 2. A Lack of Proper Compensation. This is a big one and should be addressed even if the company feels it is being fair. It is no secret that companies that are the most generous in this arena are also some of the most successful. 3. Insufficient Time Off. In an attempt to do more with less, some employers are saddling their employees with additional workloads to compensate for a leaner staff. Initially, this approach may result in a healthier bottom-line, but ultimately it will lead to higher turnover cost and lower production as workers begin to tire of the rigorous schedule forced on them. 4. Change In Management. Companies that fail to recognize the impact of this decision risk losing valuable personnel. Taking the time to speak with those most affected is of the utmost importance for keeping morale up and the transition smooth. 5. Outdated Machinery and Equipment. Whether it’s warehouse equipment or the office phone system, tools that make life more difficult for those that use them play a major role in employees running for the exit. Continuing to replace these workers may prove more expensive than replacing the tools over the long run. 6. Unrealistic Goals. Setting goals and quotas is important for maintaining production levels and achieving maximum results. This is true in all aspects of life be it personal or business. Constantly moving the “carrot” without regard for what it takes to reach it will usually wind up in a breakdown in morale and desire. Employees who are consistently put to the test in this manner will eventually decide it is simply not worth it. 7. Lack of Management Support. Managers who are unwilling to back up those who depend upon them will find it difficult to maintain a staff. This doesn’t mean being the “dumping ground” for every grievance, but it does mean having a certain intestinal fortitude as it concerns righting legitimate wrongs–even when it involves putting those issues above your own career goals. This is how you become a respected leader. 8. The Need to Be Challenged. If school-aged children get bored with their studies, their minds wander and their grades drop. When working adults get bored with their jobs, their minds wander and they start seeking a more challenging position. Keeping a bright employee challenged with rewarding tasks is the best way to keep a bright employee, period. 9. Lack of a Joyful Environment. Look around your place of business. Do your employees seem happy to be there? Is there a certain positive energy among your staff that seems to reverberate from department to department? If not, why not? Work places needn’t be all drudgery, and those that are have bigger problems than the frowns that everyone is wearing. This doesn’t mean it needs to be a constant party atmosphere. But it should at least be pleasant. 10. Lack of a Clear Pathway to Success. Many times an employee will become frustrated with the inability or unwillingness of management to provide them with a working model for success with the firm. Most people will not set out on a journey without some idea of the direction they are headed. And if they get lost along the way, they will generally head in another direction. Good and attentive management will take the time to nurture those with an eye on the future and see their value from a long-range perspective. Companies spend a lot of time, energy and money to hire the right people. All of these resources are wasted if they can’t keep the people they’ve invested so much in already. This story was originally published by Glassdoor.

Name: 1800hurt E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years Posted: 09 March 2013 The bid system is horrible.We are not machines..WE ARE HUMAN,WE WIL BREAK DOWN AND HOPEFUL ON YOUR PROPERTY!!! CSX's NEW MANAGEMENT HAS SET THE STAGE FOR COMPANY FAILURE...EMPLOYEES will start dropping ..so sad...God bless each employee and there family's..

Name: NoMo E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 09 March 2013 So you think you're important? Maybe not so much... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ObnEpRccHM

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Friend or family of employee, for 1-10 years Posted: 08 March 2013 Retired FRA Dont you think it would be better to send it now? Put them on notice on whats been going on. CC it to several other departments(OSHA etc.) and make it known if something big goes down that they were informed and failed to take the proper measures to meet the problem head on. If anyone is seriously injured or god forbid killed they can explain it to the victims lawyers why they refused to take immediate actions to correct the problems in the system!

Name: out of the game E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 30+ years Posted: 08 March 2013 hey folks?.........is it still illegal to use cell phones on the train? and if you have an incident? does the official have the right to use the cell phone on your train?............not ! your in charge its your train , same rules apply to all ! the conductor is in charge and should have it known ! no cell phones at all ! if need be ? report the officer to the fra ! pronto!

Name: Retired FRA Inspector E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 07 March 2013 Friend: I have contacted Senator Sherrod Brown and Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur to inform them of how FRA regional managers are now refusing to support their inspectors, and how they are trying to accommodate the wishes of railroad management instead. The sad fact is that a tragedy must occur before anything changes. For just one of many examples, look at how the Mine Safety and Health Administration allowed extremely unsafe mining practices to continue until an entire mountain collapsed on the miners that were working beneath it. Certain MSHA employees should have gone to jail for that! And I don't see much difference in what FRA managers are now doing. I identified and reported thousands of instances of regulatory noncompliance during my last few years at FRA. But apparently FRA managers were too cozy with their counterparts in the railroad industry to demand an improvement. I certainly hope that no more railroad disasters occur. But if one does occur, and it was caused by defective equipment, I will send my story directly to the news media.

Name: E-mail: stopstealing.org Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 07 March 2013 Too Railroad Union Bosses: Stop the stealing in your ranks....Instead of fleecing the FELA Attorneys; your Division/Local and General Committees are raising dues crying wolf by management and using the increases to inflate their salaries and providing secretive retirement packages to General Committee members..! $300,000.00 in combined income before retirement for a Vice General Chairman? For what? Audit your Committees and you will see! Leadership must be demonstrated from the top up; or from the bottom up will change the top up!

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Friend or family of employee, for N/A Posted: 07 March 2013 Retired Inspector, Since you no longer work for the fra why dont you take these issues to the steps of the capital. Yeah, maybe they will try and say you are disgruntled, but Im sure you have plenty of first hand knowledge and inside info to bring these issues back to life. Rattle the skeletons in the closet. Something to consider.

Name: Retired FRA Inspector E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 06 March 2013 Friend: I don't believe it is as prevalent as it once was. But these free lunches are allowed under current ethics guidelines. The much larger problem is the friendly relationships that are fostered during the lunches. In my opinion, FRA management employees and FRA attorneys are far too friendly with their counterparts in the railroad industry. They have become far too concerned with the wishes of railroads, and less concerned with the oaths they took to enforce the law. Perception is also a problem, which is why I avoided being seen with railroad officials in public places. It just doesn't look good! I for one tried to avoid trainmasters and superintendents as much as possible. And they hated me just as much as I hated them. The best way to gauge an FRA inspector's ethics is by hearing a railroad manager's opinion of him/her. If they like you, you aren't doing your job! It made me feel good when I heard that a railroad official had been saying nasty things about me. During the last Bush administration, things really started to go south in the FRA. The new top managers in the FRA Office of Safety began trying to accommodate railroad management like never before. They began instructing field inspectors to follow all railroad rules, which actually put us under the thumbs of railroad managers. FRA attorneys also quit accepting inspector violation reports that were earmarked as being intentional on the parts of railroads and railroad managers. I don't know if that was due to laziness or an effort to reduce the amounts that railroads paid in fines. But I do know that I was instructed to report violations as being non-intentional when they were just as intentional as the Nazi war crimes. FRA Headquarters management also tried to relax the movement restrictions for defective motive power and equipment (freight cars). They proposed to Congress that railroads should be allowed to move motive power and equipment with defective safety appliances to the next forward repair point, rather than to the nearest repair point. That would have been a huge gift to the railroads. It would have allowed them to close repair facilities and reduce their costs for back hauls. But railroad employees' exposure to unsafe conditions would have increased dramatically. Fortunately Congress saw the folly of FRA's proposal and it was not enacted. Several years ago, I discovered several FRA defective freight cars in a Canadian National train that was stopped by a stop signal in Toledo, Ohio. A Canadian National official then called FRA Headquarters to complain. FRA Director of Safety Ed Prichard then gave Canadian National permission to take their train to Flat Rock, Michigan, without first making repairs at a nearby facility. Talk about a cozy relationship!

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Friend or family of employee, for 10-20 years Posted: 06 March 2013 Reading the post below on fra inspectors. I dont work for the railroad just have friends and ive heard the trainmasters(LOR) state they take the fra inspectors out to dinner, lunch, breakfast what ever it takes to keep in good with them. Is this really true?.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: APE, for 10-20 years Posted: 06 March 2013 Anyone else have to honor of having to work with The Aaron Gandy? He is a know it all Jackass.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 06 March 2013 Just a quick note to douchebag Barrett for not taking care of your business at home. Thank you some of us here would like to help you out and do that for you. No problem I will be glad to take up your slack.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 06 March 2013 CSX is by far the most RACIST company. They should be called CSKKKX because I applied to them many times and they use Taleo software which is invented by a known neo-nazi that makes it impossible for resumes to be read by a HUMAN. Taleo blocks minorities or those with foreign sounding names from having the resume read by HR or managers. I am more than quaified for the position and I am not even interviewed. You can EASILY conclude CSX is a racist organization lead by those that are no different than Hitler.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 04 March 2013 That is not new.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 20-30 years Posted: 04 March 2013 The new crime wave in management today... Can't help but noticing the carrier's indiscretions with corrupt government officials in this forum. According a retired local chairman; the rail carriers uses local or division level union officers to subvert the claims process. They simply pay extra in claims to the local chairman's from both unions and avoid a substantial payout to the members as a whole. Railroad ceo's have always been proficient in devising schemes for stealing from the employees too further stuff their pockets!

Name: Retired FRA Inspector E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 03 March 2013 Non-Employee: Over a decade ago, a former FRA associate administrator was hired by CSX to be its vice president of safety. I believe he then moved on to a different corporation at a higher capacity. Department of Transportation Deputy Secretary Kirk Van Tine and FRA Acting Administrator Betty Monroe both resigned at the end of December 2004. They were caught up in a scandal that was exposed by The New York Times. The secretary of transportation also high-tailed it back to Texas shortly thereafter. When Reagan was elected, he nominated an FRA administrator that told us not to submit violation reports against railroads. However, Congress quickly gave that guy the boot when they got wind of his policies. Most times, FRA Headquarters employees just get too cozy with railroad managers and top level officials. And during recent years, the top managers at FRA have been telling inspectors that they must follow all railroad rules, which has placed inspectors right under the railroad's thumb. The FRA I joined back in 1978 was a hell of a lot different. Back then, and for many years thereafter, inspectors were given the support they needed to enforce the law. It was always the FRA field inspectors that held the railroad's feet to the fire. And the vast majority have upheld the oath they took to do so. Unfortunately, those at FRA Headquarters and certain regional offices just don't seem to care about that oath. They seem to be more interested in promoting the railroad's agenda and being friends with top railroad managers. I never cared about train delays or railroad profits. The oath I took came first. However, I did not take pleasure in the train delays that were caused by the defective conditions I discovered. When CSX Terminal Superintendent Rob Burkett accused me of taking pleasure in delaying "his trains," I told him just how much I resented his false accusations. And, I don't believe he actually owned those trains!

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 02 March 2013 Re; Retired FRA Inspector: If my memory serves me correctly; didn't CSX bribe a FRA inspector years ago when that inspector B/Oed to much equipment? And later that inspector accepted a job as Chief Safety Officer and paid well over $300,000.00 annually? I believe that was a $200,000.00 raise! Railroading 101: There are many foxes guarding the hen house in the railroad industry!

Name: Retired FRA Inspector E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 02 March 2013 APE: If FRA Regional Administrator Brian Hontz and Deputy Administrator Larry Kish had stood by me when CSX managers Rob Burkett and Lennon Givens were bullying and stocking me, I would still be doing the good work at Stanley Yard. But instead, they took the side of CSX management and threw me under the bus. The Lake Township Police did take action when I called them. After Burkett and Givens were warned that they were breaking the law, they immediately discontinued the harassment. However, a few days later I was told by my supervisor Dan Lewis that I was not to inspect on any CSX properties managed by Burkett. If that doesn't place FRA in the pockets of railroad management, I don't know what would. I had previously decided that I would work a few more years, as long as FRA management backed me. But that was short-lived. Anyway, at the age of 64, it was time for me to retire. And one major benefit of being retired is that I no longer have to put up with nasty railroad managers. But I sure hate that you guys still have to work for them.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: APE, for 20-30 years Posted: 02 March 2013 fra, you are a very smart man to bad they ran you off,but they dont want people like you working there any more....all about money now, you were stopping the flow of that . money is the root of all evel, they treat us like crap now,but when the day comes we all will have to ans. to the same person and when it does i'm sure glad i am not one of them.treat others as you would want them to treat you.they just dont get it......yet!

Name: Retired FRA Inspector E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 01 March 2013 As I've stated before, I believe that FRA is now a cheerleader for this rules compliance turbo-testing. Those at FRA Headquarters just don't seem to understand, or possibly even care, that testing is sometimes used as a form of harassment and intimidation. And often times testing isn't being done for the most important rules or at the most important locations. Testing for compliance with restricted proceed signal indications is a good example. Another is making sure that tracks adjacent to workers are blocked from use when required. Testing for those rules is a lot more important than making sure an employee's safety glasses are on straight. Often times safety glasses are actually a detriment to safety. Rain, darkness and bright lights make it very difficult to see through those cheap plastic lenses. And I believe that the reflective vests were only mandated so that supervisors and managers could more easily spot employees via yard cameras. I personally am not aware of any railroad yard fatalities that could have been prevented by the use of reflective vests. A freight car rolling down a track just doesn't have the ability to stop, or to warn an employee in its path. However, vests can likely save lives when employees are working in close proximity to the motoring public. That is why highway workers wear them. But also notice that highway workers don't usually wear safety glasses. They need to have the best view possible of what's coming at them. Putting cops behind every billboard may keep people from speeding, but it sure would ruin the morale of the motoring public. And people would become so nervous, they would have more accidents doing the speed limit than if they were speeding. This it seems is what's now going on at the railroads. Employees are in constant fear of breaking a rule and being disciplined. They worry about the welfare of their families if this happens. How can this be a safe environment? There is no possible way! Wake up FRA!

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Friend or family of employee, for 1-10 years Posted: 01 March 2013 The post below, yes i understand, that is just wrong to have to work in an environment like that.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Friend or family of employee, for 1-10 years Posted: 28 February 2013 Friend, Family You heard it right. Everyone is finally starting to realize it is a battle ground. Every dark corner, curve, switch, cross over can be a trap with devices set in the darkest, deepest and most invisible places possible. The chances of actually coming across a rail car in the wrong place is about a 1% chance because the rule violation charges have become so ridiciously strick. The chances of coming across a testing device in the track thats the size of a "wet floor" sign is about 1 out of 3 trips. So what do you think happens when they test you to death on a particular device until everyone finally figures out how it will be set out? You got it! They try to find ways to make them more invisible. Does that answer your questions?

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Friend or family of employee, for 1-10 years Posted: 28 February 2013 I dont know to much about the railroad as im not in the bussiness. When i read the post below i was prompted to write. I have heard friends of mine talk that do work on the railroad ,and the t.m. laughing at how they set out to try to fail as many employees as possible. I also heard that they try to be a shady on the testing, is that a rumor or do they really do that?,if thats the case that is just wrong. I also have heard a few supervisor talk that i do believe they are one of the few that are honest. I'm sure the emplyees do reconize the honest ones. Just my opinion.

Name: NoMo E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 27 February 2013 Hello GLD...come in: What's this I'm hearing about some of the mud sucking, bottom feeding TM y'all have up there...you know, the spineless ones that that are too scared of getting the plow cleaned to tell you to your face that they're going to give you a failure...yeah, you know who you are and so does everyone else. Worried about a hostile situation are you? Well by not manning up and talking to the employees, you're creating a much more volatile situation. You can't stay at work 24 hours a day. Sooner or later you're going to have to leave the property...probably in your best interests to get the unpleasantries out of the way. You really don't want to leave any business undone...you never know when it'll bite you in the ass...maybe next week, maybe next month, maybe next year. Or where it'll be, maybe at the mall while you're shopping with your wife and family, or at the movie theater, or at the bar...you just never know. One things for certain, if you want ride the bus, you gotta pay the fare!

Name: diehard E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 27 February 2013 hey guys. Can anyone tell me what is the average starting salary for Intermodel service worker. I seems like it is a big secret! Because I can not find out anywhere on line not even on the CSX website.

Name: Anonymous Operations E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 26 February 2013 Breaking news! Feds crack-down on railroad managers for falsifying trip events. Any false reporting of point shaving (lowering TE&Y efficiency score) by railroad mangers is a "one and done" event for an early termination!

Name: Retired FRA Inspector E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 24 February 2013 NoMo: You are right on the money! Watching RCO operations seemed like watching grass grow. And if they really got behind, a full crew would be called in. I was told many times by RCO's that shortcuts and broken rules were necessary in order to meet production. I relayed that information to FRA managers, but it fell on deaf ears. And I also remember when FRA was a cheerleader for remote control. RCO's walk their asses off! The young guys can do it, but wait until their years of service start adding up. Carrying a box around all the time can't be helping their backs either. A few years ago, the Eastbound Yard crews at Walbridge were switching out several trains during their shifts, and they still got a darn good quit. It seemed like fewer cars were damaged, and morale was great. No injuries either! That was when railroading was fun and productive. Employees enjoyed going to work. Smoke and mirrors seem to be the norm now. If it's not corporations, it's politicians. RCO's drastically reduce labor costs, but it seems to me that the trade off is reduced production. And reduced maintenance spending can only result in a higher degree of FRA noncompliance, and the resultant injuries and derailments. During the last few years, I certainly noticed an increase in FRA non-complying conditions. I believe that FRA also employs some very creative accounts and statisticians. Perhaps that is why the accident and injury numbers seem to be constantly improving. But they can't hide employee fatalities, or the derailments that are broadcast on CNN and the other major news outlets. Bottom line....nothing seems to be more important than bonuses and stock options for railroad managers! But FRA managers only get bonuses. No stock options for them! One thing I know for sure, the more bullshit an employee produces at annual evaluation time, the bigger bonus he or she gets. The sad part is, it doesn't seem to matter if people were harmed in order for the manager to receive his or her bonus.

Name: Douche bag E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years Posted: 24 February 2013 Yes ..Trainmaster Shiloh Campbell is a douche bag fag..Bob Frulla's little rat ...He was caught screwing a taxi driver withCell phone pictures...don't turn your back on this prick...

Name: NoMo E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 24 February 2013 Hey FRA: If the bottom line is moving freight faster as you say, how do explain RCOs? The RR is all about timing...getting the trains over the road which means getting them switched out, built,inspected and out of the yard. In yard service, when I worked the Hill job at Sibert we had a full crew; an Engineer, Foreman, short and long switch men. We would routinely switch 350 to 400 cars and build several out bounds and get s 2+ hour quit. Today the job is remote, a RCO on the pins and a switch man in a tower throwing power switches. I understand a good night is a 100 cars and 1 train. Any way you cut it,it's 1/3 of the production. How is that moving freight? Local management and Jacksonville get giddy with numbers like that! I have personally switched the same cars from the shop 4 days in a row. I put a cut of 4 jumbo flats to the interchange, just to bring them back the next day and shop them. This went on for a week. Now I'm not very smart but this doesn't improve anything let alone the bottom line. They are blowing smoke up the shareholder asses. It takes some real creative accounting to cover that up and steady price increases and reduced labor and maintenance costs to make up the difference!

Name: Retired FRA Inspector E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 24 February 2013 NoMo: I believe you are right. Morale didn't seem too bad before Ward, Ingram and Brown appeared on the scene. Ex Conrail managers also became part of the mix. Conrail generally treated their employees well. But in my opinion, too much emphasis was placed on moving trains and cutting labor costs, and not enough on safety and FRA compliance. It was obvious to me that Conrail mechanical employees were expected to ignore defects if corrective action would cause train delays. And employees were often harassed for shopping cars in outbound trains. (They were harassed for finding defects if I wasn't there, and disciplined for not finding them when I was there and wrote violations). The mechanical operating budget seemed to be the root of the problem. It costs a considerable amount of money to maintain locomotives and freight cars in good condition. During the time that Carl Taylor ran CSX Mechanical Operations, it was very difficult for me to find defective CSX motive power or equipment. So I would usually drive right past the CSX yards and head for Conrail. Taylor held managers accountable for FRA violations. But that seemed to change drastically after he left. The thousands of freight car defects I discovered and documented during the last few years certainly attest to that. Unfortunately I had no control over morale, but it was always obvious to me where it stood at various locations. Morale was good during the Carl Taylor era. And it was Taylor that set the stage. I must believe that mid and lower level managers are only acting on demands from the top. It's true that railroads now have many managers with little or no railroad experience. But they are easy to mold. Also, I believe that most conductors and engineers would never go into management because they are followers of the golden rule. And it is ironic that they also follow that rule while moving freight for their employer, no matter how bad they seem to be treated. However, there have been a few T&E employees that have joined the ranks of management. And I personally believe that souls are often sold when that happens. When I was a C&O Machinist back in the 1970's, I was told by a manager that I would never become a foreman unless I was willing to release defective locomotives for use. I told him that I did not want a foreman's job if that was what I had to do. As for moving managers around, I'm not sure that is always the case. I've heard there is one particular trainmaster at Toledo that has bid on jobs all over the railroad. And no one seems to want him! I also believe that if employee intimidation is allowed or promoted by top management, it will become the norm. The reason it varies in intensity from location to location, is because some individuals seem to be more arrogant and/or nasty than others. Guess which ones seem to move up the ladder the quickest? And remember, those relocations generally come with a pay grade increase. NoMo, the bottom line is that moving freight faster, and at less cost, seems to be all that counts to top managers and stockholders. I believe that the Devil himself would be highly regarded if he were employed as a trainmaster or superintendent that reached the production and profit goals set by top managers. I wish the best for all of the employees that might be sick this week. They are my friends that I spent many enjoyable hours with over the years. Spending time with contract employees, and a very few (two or three) managers, is about all I miss since retirement. Oh, and I did enjoy seeing to it that locomotive and freight car defects were repaired before they caused injuries to employees or derailments.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 24 February 2013 Name: Nat King Coal E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 30+ years Posted: 24 February 2013 Does anyone know a Trainmaster named Shilo, what an idiot he is at his new terminal and already screwed it up and it only took 2 freaking weeks. He changing things around like a retard, what used to take 3 crews at a mine now takes 5 and instead of 11 hours to load no takes 24 plus. why is this idiot even around we have 26 employees and 2 trainmasters and a RFE, please trim the top of the tree instead of the roots before it falls over. ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ Are you Kidding!!! 3 crews to 5 and you Bitch 11 hours to load and now 24 hours to load. Are you on a time schedule or just dumb. You are bitching against your pay check. Trying to make a new person look so bad that it hurts you.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years Posted: 24 February 2013 Lets show Huntington that we are not going to be intimidated over FMLA. Lets pull CSX national sick out day and sit down on the job. Mark off 26th and 27th. Take extra time tocomplete all task. Do not I repeat do not step up. Lets put a end to fourloughs and herassment. Take lunch when possible. When in the hole and the highball pops up take a piss. Wash your hands etc. Stop and take a shit if needed. They want safety lets give them safety. Lets do it!

Name: Nat King Coal E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 30+ years Posted: 24 February 2013 Does anyone know a Trainmaster named Shilo, what an idiot he is at his new terminal and already screwed it up and it only took 2 freaking weeks. He changing things around like a retard, what used to take 3 crews at a mine now takes 5 and instead of 11 hours to load no takes 24 plus. why is this idiot even around we have 26 employees and 2 trainmasters and a RFE, please trim the top of the tree instead of the roots before it falls over.

Name: NoMo E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 24 February 2013 Hey FRA: I was my experience that most of the managers prior to Ingram were pretty decent, even the younger ones. Ingram changed that. However, even before Ingram but after Ward took over, CSX made the conscience decision to quit promoting from within the ranks and hire college graduates. Bad decision...and it biting them in the ass. Another interesting aspect is "people make the difference". For example, when I first started monitoring this site, the divisions that had the most complaints were Albany and Baltimore which segued into Florence, into Huntington, into Nashville & Huntington, Great Lakes & Huntington and today Great Lakes, Huntington and looks to be Chicago. In each cast, you can trace the Divisional woes to a small cadre of managers that CSX moves around rather than firing. I guess CSX figures it's hard to hit a moving target! An interesting aside to the above comment, in the seven years, I've been here the fewest complaints come from the Atlanta and Jacksonville Divisions...I wonder why? Might it be that they are too close to home. I will be interesting to see how many Cons and Locos are sick this week...I'm betting the usual number.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 1-10 years Posted: 23 February 2013 SICKOUT FEBRUARY 26 FOR CONDUCTORS FEBRUARY 27 FOR ENGINEERS Heard the rumor... Anyone else heard about this? Atlanta Division

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 1-10 years Posted: 23 February 2013 IDK. I have a pay stub on the gateway that is dated 3-1 but that is my regular ole paycheck we get every two weeks. I haven't gotten a new one for our bonus. Had one but it disappeared today. Jax said the bonuses were figured incorrectly and that payment was stopped. Also said some people will be getting more and some less than what your 1st stub said. So who knows.

Name: Retired FRA Inspector E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 23 February 2013 NoMo: I was taught to avoid bad company at a very young age. So I spent most of my time with the contract employees rather than the managers. And because of that, I was kept very well informed of management misdeeds. The managers really hated that, and hated me for doing it. But the oath I took back in 1978 did not mention the need to be popular with railroad managers. There were a few managers that seemed to treat employees fairly, but they were the exception and not the rule. One of the exceptions was a superintendent that managed Willard Terminal several years ago. Unfortunately he got caught up in something after being reassigned to another location and is no longer employed by CSX. Seems to me that Willard functioned at its best while he was in charge. Morale was good and employees actually wanted to do a good job. It also seemed like J.J. was good to employees. As for Toledo, I believe downhill would be an accurate statement. But of course that is only my opinion. As I just mentioned downhill, FRA enforcement policy also comes to mind.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 20-30 years Posted: 23 February 2013 NONYA, 10-20 years. Sorry, but you have been employed by this circus long enough to know NEVER EVER EVER EVER TRUST any monetary promise that doesnt have a time ticket attatched for proof will ever be correct or paid. Hell, how many times has pay been taken away from you after you were paid for a job you did because they claim you werent entitled to it! YOU SHOULD KNOW BETTER! Never count your csx chickens before or after they are hatched. I keep a seperate savings account with enough money in it to equal and average 30 days of pay to cover any screwing I may get at the last minute to cover my bills. Yeah, it sucks you have to live way, but thats how they roll. I budget 3 weeks in advance at all times. Every time I print out an earning statement that doesnt have any denied pay on it, I pretty much know that they will take something the next pay because they will claim they missed something. You need to get in that frame of mind and stay there.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 1-10 years Posted: 23 February 2013 Yeah just looked the one dated 2-22 is gone but the 3-1 is my regular pay check not bonus. The word is they are supposed to have it fixed Monday but who knows. By agreement it has to be paid by 3-1. Guess we will see.....

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 1-10 years Posted: 23 February 2013 Did any of my fellow CSX employees get their bonus Friday, Feb 22, 2013? I got my pay stub emailed to me Friday and it was supposed to be deposited yesterday but has not been. After talking to local chairman comes to find out CSX stopped pay on most of the deposits because many people were overpaid and many were underpaid and some didn't even get one. They (JAX) have had three months to get the bonus stuff figured out yet they still can't seem to get it right. Suprised? Not me....The word on the street is that there is a "sickout" Tuesday, Feb 26 for conductors and one for engineers on Wednesday. Just to let em know that we are ultimately in control. Its not just because they screwed the bonus up but its just everything that has been happening on the Atlanta Division lately. Hope to see you off sick!

Name: NoMo E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 22 February 2013 Hey FRA; The view of the RR and perhaps the FRA, as well, is entirely different when you're looking in from the outside. I knew there were problems at CSX when I was there, there are with any company. I just had no idea as to the extent and severity of the problems until I had been gone several months...when you're on the outside, it's a totally different reality!

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years Posted: 22 February 2013 Is it true we engineers are not getting our bonus til next Fri from this craphole place and how much less will we get if and when we get it!

Name: Retired FRA Inspector E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 22 February 2013 NoMo: Yep, when you experience "rules gone wild" out at the old railroad, all you see are the ugly asses! And about this time last year, those asses got so ugly they would damn near blind a person. Fortunately, I was just at the right age to retire with a good civil service pension, and my vision has now improved immensely.

Name: Nonya E-mail: Business Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years Posted: 22 February 2013 Here is a perfect example of CSX's lack of professionalism. The Payroll Dpeartment cannot even calculate and process the ble performance contract bonus earnings properly. I get a paper statement in the mail at the beginning of the 3rd week in february, and by the end of the week i am checking Friday morning that dollar amount was deposited to my account. Turns out it never was, and payroll puts up messages on the gateway, and on the phone, that bonus will not be paid due to payroll has made errors in paying the bonuses. Payroll says the bonuses are "overstated." So now that i have planned out the money i thought i was going to recieve, and already wrote out checks and made a budget for myself, that will all have to be deleted due to the great professionalism of the CSX payroll department.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 10-20 years Posted: 22 February 2013 11th year and CSX still SUCKS!

Name: NoMo E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 21 February 2013 Hey FRA: At least with "Girls Gone Wild" you see T&A, cop a feel and maybe even get lucky...with "Rules Gone Wild" you see TMs and RFEs, get wrote up and more often than not, get Sodomized!

Name: Retired FRA Inspector E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 20 February 2013 FRA is promoting this rules gone wild culture. Statisticians are now running FRA, and all they are concerned with is making the accident and injury numbers look good. To do that, railroads are being encouraged to perform more and more rules compliance checks and to hold employees accountable when minor infractions occur. The sad part is that FRA does not consider or care about production pressures that are being placed on employees, or the fatigue that is incurred when those employees are on foot in all kinds of weather while attempting to meet those employer demands. I believe that if railroad managers, or FRA employees, were suddenly placed in your folks shoes, rules compliance failures would run rampant. They might act like they can walk on water, but I for one bet they would sink like lead!

Name: BLE MORON E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years Posted: 20 February 2013 Let me tell you one thing first off. Men that have been at my home terminal at 100% for the past three years can not hold a job. I have been with the company for 21 years now. I know that if the company would stop hiring its management off the street that they would save more money. You see they run the company so badly because they do not understand the actual jobs and the way they operate. They do not understand the best way to switch this industry or that industry. Actually all they know is what was learned in training school. Write this man or woman up for not being 100% rule compliant. The company does not understand that some rules are pathetic and hurt operations and profit. The new rule on the huntington is just the perfect example. The conductor must tell the Engineer where he is at. The raidio procedures have got way out of hand! You newer people need to get out now! The company is going to hell in a blink of an eye. Profits and wall street are not showing it yet, but yes it is coming by early 2014 is my prediction. No, I am not expert on the financial markets, but years of tactics by CSX turning railroading into a game of cat and mouse will collapse at once! Get the hell out while you can!

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 19 February 2013 FRA 16 feb 2013 Well buddy you have HIM.Enjoy Unless the middle class workers of America begin to realize what is going on, and why, we will continue on our downward spiral. If American workers would just combine their voting power, they could elect politicians that protect their interests, rather than the interests of the wealthy. But sadly, American workers continue to vote for politicians that are anti-union, pro-wealthy and pro-corporation. They then complain that the corporations and wealthy corporate managers they work for are raping them. (Does Archie Bunker come to mind?) I guess things will need to get a lot worse before reality sets in. But until then, corporations will continue to control our country.

Name: lol E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for Less than 1 year Posted: 19 February 2013 Yardmaster Paul pfeffer is a fat homo. you are going to get your a_ _ kicked if you keep trying to act tough. You know you like boys, stop pretending you have a girlfriend. Fat, stubby little man syndrome. Lol

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Friend or family of employee, for 1-10 years Posted: 19 February 2013 Rumor is LBT says that mongomery, al was the worst place she ever worked at. People were brainless and some were very foolish and fell for anything.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Train Dispatcher, for 10-20 years Posted: 19 February 2013 It needs to have a period to be a run on sentence. I don't know what the fuck that was.

Name: who cares E-mail: Employed as: Train Master/ supervisor, for 10-20 years Posted: 19 February 2013 I was sitting here reading and thinking about all the comments posted.Here is the facts #1 who cares that someone is screwing around!!!! CSX is screwing your eyeballs out every single day. And a upper end manager stated "The unions where bought off years ago" and the unions have proven it.So heres the bottom line.Which do you hate the most? THE COMPANY OR THE UNION? I HATE THE UNION BECAUSE I PAY THEM TO SCREW MY EYEBALLS OUT.BLET/UTU = unless .... bought off punks

Name: E-mail: Employed as: APE, for 30+ years Posted: 18 February 2013 fra inspector, you hit the nail on the head again. Its to bad we pay that kind of money for union rep.and receive almost no protection from them . We are only strong if we all stick together . to bad that will never happen, with that said does anyone know of a real good fela lawyer ? sure could use one of the best....but he's gona be to scared or dont care anyway , or is payed for , or aint got the balls to fight the big god of csx so forget it , i guess i will contnue to just get shit on ! what a shame . fxxx csx all you managers will get yours some day ! you will have to meet up with the real god and then and only then will you will know you truely fxxx- up !

Name: NoMo E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 17 February 2013 Whew!!! I think that's what called a run on sentence!

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 17 February 2013 hey newhires smarting up your first 3/4 yrs you wont make 30000 no furture here get out stop wastseing your time and yrs you could be working for someone who cares about you and knows you by name not number and where your appreciated these jobs are out there less money but in the end you will make more when you dont get furloughed every 3 months really stop in take a look at the big picture my first yr told i was going to make 43000 made 18000 my new job i took 5 dollar pay cut and still made 52000 last yr guy i went to school with 2 yrs ago still has not made 25000 with these hores but he keeps holding on thinking it going to change and in the mean time hes going broke dont fall for it you will get fired before you reach 100% pay dont waste your life its to short

Name: NY Area Commuter RR Conductor E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 17 February 2013 I look at some of these posts here, and notice people using people's real names on here. This is just not right, and you all who do this should chill out!! Not only does it lead to further degradation of what seems to be already subterranean morale, but it can lead to tons of legal issues. Let's keep names out of this!! No one needs to be knowing all that.

Name: NY Area Commuter RR Conductor E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 17 February 2013 To the person who wrote this response to my posting...... "To NY area commuter: Nice try but I can tell from your post you are not only a liar but probably the biggest cheater on the rails especially probably in your area. Take up for scummy men who cheat and ruin their lives plus their childrens lives for some second class Whore trainmaster that would can't do her job without holding a man's johnson in her nasty old 50 yr old hand that's Laura Bleakley Touchstone and she will get hers one day, so will you. And so will my husband for cheating with her nasty distgusting old ass because he will lose me I look like a Barbie in comparison and its gonna cost him plenty watch out for karma when it kicks you in your brainless head...not that other tiny head you have!" Obviously you are way too stupid, and quite possibly severely dislexic, to see I spoke of ANYONE who cheats, be they men or women, and the comments I made in the beginning of that post spoke about YOUR MAN being the problem (tell me where in there I said anything supportive of cheating men??), not you or any women being a problem. And unlike you, my marriage is very happy, very honest and faithful. If your man is stepping out on you, then again I will reiterate (since you were too stupid to see it when I first stated this), Y-O-U-R--M-A-N--I-S--T-H-E--P-R-O-B-L-E-M!!! Or judging from the silliness of your response, maybe YOU are the problem!! Your attitude and obvious inability to use basic reading comprehension is probably why "Laura Bleakley Touchstone" was able to get your man!!! I think you need a trip to Dr. Phil. You got issues, and I think you and your husband needs counseling or something!! Have a blessed day!!

Name: Retired FRA Inspector E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 16 February 2013 A corporation has no conscience or soul. Nor does it possess a heart or brain. Yet, the U.S. Supreme Court has decided that a corporation is a person and can use its money to buy politicians. And, corporations have become so powerful that Federal agencies are now scared to death of them. The Department of Justice is so scared of the big banks that they are afraid to prosecute them, even though it is evident that they ruined our economy and our property values. FRA is another good example. When CSX managers attempted to bully and stalk me because their trains were being delayed due to the defects I had been discovering, FRA Region 2 Deputy Administrator Larry Kish took the side of CSX, and refused to support me. So, the way you folks are being treated is just another sign of unchecked corporate greed, and the failure of our government to protect us from that greed. Just like the Federal government, unions no longer have the power or will to stand up to corporate America. We the people are now in a class war against the rich, and the rich are surely winning. The reason they are winning is because the middle class isn't putting up much of a fight. Many members of the middle class don't even realize that this war exists, or they are misled by the politicians they support. Those politicians (I believe they are generally on the right) talk as if class warfare is a terrible thing, but they only say that when raising taxes on the wealthy or on corporations is mentioned. Corporate profits are at an all time high. And our government's Robin Hood in reverse programs have lined the pockets of the rich, at the expense of the middle class. Corporate mergers, foreign trade agreements and anti-union legislation have all been allowed or created by the government that is supposed to be representing "we the people." Unless the middle class workers of America begin to realize what is going on, and why, we will continue on our downward spiral. If American workers would just combine their voting power, they could elect politicians that protect their interests, rather than the interests of the wealthy. But sadly, American workers continue to vote for politicians that are anti-union, pro-wealthy and pro-corporation. They then complain that the corporations and wealthy corporate managers they work for are raping them. (Does Archie Bunker come to mind?) I guess things will need to get a lot worse before reality sets in. But until then, corporations will continue to control our country.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 16 February 2013 Lets start from the beginning it a long story get ready to read. In 2006 my father told me about how a family friend had done really well for himself, and his family working for CSX railroad. The benefits were great, the money was very nice, and the opportunity to ride trains for a living was a nice thought. At that time CSX required the you pay for your conductor schooling that was offered by a community college in Atlanta. The name of college was AMDG. I contacted AMDG, and was invited to one of the interviews with AMDG that they were having in Birmingham Alabama. Being twenty years old I have to admit I was elated the thoughts of such a great career at my age was wonderful. After interview I was called by AMDG a few days later and offered a position in one of there upcoming class. If I passed I was guaranteed a job with CSX as a freight conductor in a small town within thirty five minutes of me called Erwin TN. They told me that I must pay the $5000 tuition up front to hold my spot because they had people drop cancel on them right when the class was about to start. So I check with CSX, and was told AMDG is who CSX went through to hire there new employees that there were not trying to scam me or anything. Being 20 years old I got a credit card, and pay AMDG the $5000 dollars since I didn't have any savings at that age. AMDG informed me that the the class would start in the next couple of months, and they would contact me shortly with the date to be there to start the class. A couple months went by and I called AMDG. I was told that they classes had been held back a couple months due to CSX getting there ducks in a row to start new employees on there on the job training after completing class at AMDG, but a new class should start any day. A couple more months went by, and I called again and the line had been disconnected. Low and behold CSX had decided to stop using AMDG for training there new conductors. CSX had began training all there employees in house from class train to on the job training. I contacted a couple lawyers, and was told that I was wasting my time trying to sue AMDG for my $5000 because they had filed bankruptcy. Long story short I lost my $5000, and it was no concern to CSX that I had lost my $5000. Now I was bound and determined to get hired on directly with CSX. A year had gone by. I had began searching the internet up and down for contacts with the CSX recruiting department to try to see when they would be hiring for Erwin TN. I would compare trying to get a CSX recruiters number to that of a amateur trying to crack a safe lol not going to happen over night. In the mean time I had my family friend pulling strings for me, and I began to call all the local managers in Erwin bugging them trying to get them to get me hired on once they began to hiring for Erwin again. It took me a couple months but lets just say I cracked that safe. I finally got a number to the conductor recruiter that did the hiring in Erwin. I have to say he was a really nice fellow, and assured me I had a good change of getting hired on once they started hiring again. I would check the CSX website weekly to see if they had posted any conductor jobs for Erwin TN. Six months of bugging the recruiter once a week, and all the local managers in Erwin every couple of weeks the posting finally came up on the website for conductor jobs in Erwin. I applied waited a couple weeks and got a e-mail say to be at a Hotel in Johnson city TN for a hiring session. That day is burned in my mind. I walked in the hiring session, and there was twenty some applicants there. There as a older gentlemen at the front of the room, and as I began to talk to the other applicants he started to walk my way. He stuck out his hand and called my name. He said I knew who you were by your voice since I had bugged him so much over the past six months lol. The interview went well, and to be honest the recruiter promised us the world lol. He said that if we were hired we would start out at 75 % of the base pay, and increase to 100 % over the next five years. The starting first year pay for the average conductor was $43,000. After our first year we would be making $65,000 to $80,000 a year. Three days later I got a call from a lady at the recruiting department. She said I was hired if I could pass a physical, strength test, drug test, background checks etc... I went threw the process over the next few months, and was offered the job that is if I could successfully complete the CSX training of 8 weeks in Atlanta GA. By this time is was winter of 2007 they had me slated for a class in the spring of 2008. May of 2008 I began the school in at Atlanta GA, and 8 weeks later I passed the class with a 94.9 GPA. I returned to Erwin TN to begin my 16 weeks of on the job training. I was told I had 16 weeks of training that I was on probation, plus another 60 days of probation once becoming a marked up conductor that they could fire me for no reason. After that I would become a member of the United Transportation Union, and I was pretty much untouchable as far as being fired for anything stupid permently. In the fall of 2008 on my 22nd birthday to be exact I completed my on the job training, and became a full fledged conductor. During the time that I had been training, and also once I became a marked up conductor there was a huge demand for domestic coal to supply the southern us power plants. Business was booming in Erwin TN due to the fact that we are the shortest line from the coal mines on the East coast to coal fired power plants in the South. December came around and I things started to slow down. In the beginning of January 2009 I was furloughed (laid off). I stayed furloughed until march of 2009. In March when worked picked up I was recalled back to work in. May of 2009 I was furloughed again, and this time I would not see the inside of another train engine for 11 months. I really thought my days with the railroad were over, and they weren't calling me back. If you have less than three year with with CSX it is there choice to call you back or not after being laid off for more than a year. In the spring of 2010 after completing a short retraining I was back to normal work. I was on call six days a week 24 hours a day with one day off a week. You get a two hour call to be at work, and once getting on the train you would often work 12 hours a day all that you could run the train by law, and then wait 30 minutes to 2 or more hours for a taxi to bring you a crew to recrew you so that crew to take the train on down the rail, and you could go to the hotel to rest. You then would spend 30 minutes to 2 hours in the taxi to get to the hotel for rest. So it was normal for you to be tied to work from the time you got the call 13 to 18 hours. Once reaching the hotel you got 6 hours of rest, and crew management could then ring your phone, and have you on another train two hours later. so 8 hours total, or you could be stuck in a hotel with nothing to do for 24 hours. Think about it if they call you on your rest. Once You get to the hotel 30 minutes to eat something, 30 minutes to settle down/watch TV, and 30 minutes to fall asleep. So really 4:30 minutes of rest, and if you had been up working all night just getting in at say 9 am sometimes it took you longer to get to sleep. Then you got maybe 2 hours of rest. Back up to take a train home for a 8-12 hour ride, and be responsible for millions of dollars of machinery, you and your engineers life, and numerous other train crews and civilians lives. By the way you don't get paid anything for the first 15 hours you are in the hotel away from home. If you do end up staying along time waiting on a train to return to work the total hours you are away from home really adds up. that big $25-$30 an hour money begins to shrivel up, and look allot like $10-$12 a hour real quick money real quick. When things were booming, and when you finally did get that one day off a week you would either sleep through it, or you would have a man with more seniority take your day off. In railroad terms they call it kicking you for your off day. I once worked 28 straight day when I was able to hold the older mans board the conductor board that didn't have any off days. My God what a pay check, but when you start waking up thinking you are in your bed at home and your really in a hotel in Spartanburg SC, or Pikeville KY something is wrong lol!!. Lets move on lol things slowed down again in the January 2011 and I was furloughed again. In the spring of 2011 I was recalled again. I was able to work until I believe February of 2012. In the spring of 2012 I was recalled for little over a month and furloughed again with this up and down cycle all of 2012 being called back to work for maybe a month at a time and laid off again. In September of 2012 I was laid off and have been laid off ever since. I currently have 24 people above me laid off and 40+ below me so I kinda expect not to work at all in 2013. In 2008 made $29,000 and some change while going to CSX conductor training school, and on the job training, and the small amount of time I was marked up as a conductor, in 2009 I made rough less than $10,000 not counting unemployment. In 2010 I made $28,000 not counting unemployment. In 2011 I made $32,000 not counting unemployment, and in 2012 I made $21,000 not counting unemployment. So over a total of roughly 5 year I have made`$120,000 for an average of $24,000 a year that is pretty much half of what I was told I would make my first year of $43000 a year. During those 5 years I have missed less than 10 of being sick so that is 2 sick days a year. Which the railroad doesn't give you sick days by the way. I had 6 months of perfect attendance, and I have never had a wrote up for attendance so you could say my low wages were out of my control I was working all that I could. It's because I keep getting laid off. In 2008 I worked the 241 days in order to qualify for one week of vacation in 2009 which I did receive but since I was laid off I cashed it in. In 2010,2011,2012 I didn't get the 241 qualifying days. So you could say in 5 years I haven't had a week of paid vacation. In 2010 I missed my vacation by something like 7 days of being short the 241 day to qualify for two weeks of vacation. In 2011 I missed it by 17 days to qualify for the 241 days needed to get two weeks of vacation. In the past couple of years allot has changed with the hours amount of hours you have to rest by law. The hours have been have been extended to 12 hours instead of 8. You are now required to take off 2 days if you work 6 days straight and 3 days if you work 7 days straight. So it has really cut down on the amount of money you can make since you can't work the long hours anymore. So the really high pay days are all but gone. The insurance was once free and now we pay $200 a month and you have to pay the first $2000 of the deductible. The union dues are between $90-100 dollars a months, and it is close shop so you have no choice. Now to unions our local union represenitives that we have now are great for both the UTU and the BLE sure wasn't that way my first couple of years. I am proud of them they really do all they can. But a union is powerless when it come to not being able to strike thanks to president Ronald Regan declaring it again the law for railroad worker being able to strike. We face criminal charges and imprisonment if we do strike. Although it would be kinda fun in jail if I had hundreds of other conductors and engineers in there with me lol. When it comes to the national level of unions they are so corrupt it unbelievable. The national level unions have gave away just about everything railroader fought for and died for to get in the last couple of years just to line there personal pockets. It's funny when upper level union officials retire 2-3-4 at a time shortly after a union contract is signed that the union men voted down only to have it shoved down there throats anyways. I know you can say that it isn't CSX railroad fought that I have been laid off, but check there yearly record profits in the years that I have been laid off. Also Check out how much money the CEO Michael Ward makes for a bonus over $8,000,000 a year plus over another $1,000,000 a year salary. Our local management isn't that bad to be truthful most of the ones we have now just stay around for a year or two at most and then get shuffled around. They are college grads that have never stepped foot on a freight train in there life, and it's not there fault there don't have a clue allot of the time whats going on. This has been the past five years of my life with CSX railroad I promise I'm not making it up, and if any high ranking CSX official ever wants to read it, and call me a liar. I have the written documents to prove how many times I have been laid off and how much my pay is. So why do I stay I guess I figure I have 5 years of seniority in, and at the railroad seniority is everything I do not have a college degree so a hopefully $50,000-$60,000 dollar a year one of these years will end up being better off than a $8 an hour factory job. So if you ever think about working for the railroad. FOR GOD SAKE AS THE OLD RAILROADERS WHEN I HIRED ON SAID JUST BUY YOU A GUN, AND ONE BULLET AND GO AHEAD AND GET IT OVER WITH!!! ;) Well that's all my friends. In the words of the great late Paul Harvey....Good Day!!!

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for Less than 1 year Posted: 13 February 2013 Csx sucks and so do the people that work there fuck you all good bye

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Brakeman, for 1-10 years Posted: 13 February 2013 NY Commuter Its not hard to believe that the csx employees that you have spoken to are not treated as badly as some of the rest. This would be because they are not located in the chosen area. You see, csx needs a turnover rate. It gets them the grants they need to limit their spending, reduces cost by replacing the 100% paid employees with new hires only making 75%, and it gives them an opportunity to force changes in new hire agreements and working conditions. What isnt fair is the company keeps the hit squad in basically one area. They do not move the head hunting around the system evenly. This is a good business move for them. If it looks like the problems are just in one area and everyone else seems to be happy it is easy for them to claim that the chosen ones are just problem children. Watch these areas closely and you will see that there is also a high turnover rate of field supervisors and upper management level employees. One area has had 6 Superintendants in less than 12years. About the average of a Mcdonalds manager!

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Friend or family of employee, for 1-10 years Posted: 10 February 2013 As a matter of fact I did go today. Did u/any of u? Check yourself. I am sorry obviously this is not the place for a decent woman to post. Guess I will walk away knowing I am not a nasty cheat or a liar. Sorry the people that post on here take up for trash and not for the innocent bystanders. I'm done with this. Let's just say this,experience will involve more than a few csx employees being served to show up in court that's what happens when u have done what my soon to be ex did. GOOD LUCK.

Name: NoMo E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 10 February 2013 Hey Friend: You may look like Barbie but you sound more like G.I. Joe! Give it a rest...you're losing your sympathy factor. Might be a good time to go to church where all good Christians go on Sunday.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Friend or family of employee, for 1-10 years Posted: 10 February 2013 To NY area commuter: Nice try but I can tell from your post you are not only a liar but probably the biggest cheater on the rails especially probably in your area. Take up for scummy men who cheat and ruin their lives plus their childrens lives for some second class Whore trainmaster that would can't do her job without holding a man's johnson in her nasty old 50 yr old hand that's Laura Bleakley Touchstone and she will get hers one day, so will you. And so will my husband for cheating with her nasty distgusting old ass because he will lose me I look like a Barbie in comparison and its gonna cost him plenty watch out for karma when it kicks you in your brainless head...not that other tiny head you have!

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 09 February 2013 Must read for all Railroaders: Union Corruption In America Still A Growth Industry By Carl F. Horowitz

Name: NoMo E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 09 February 2013 Hey Metro North: Greenwich, Scarsdale? I graduated from New Canaan High School, If you were in Greenwich and Scarsdale for any reason, you were slumming! What did they call it? The last station before heaven?

Name: NY Area Commuter RR Conductor E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 09 February 2013 To NoMo....... Actually I work at Metro-North (MN), for 9 years now, and a former NYC Transit subway conductor for almost 6 years, so believe me I have unique views of rail service for almost 15 years, especially passenger service. New Jersey Transit, the North Jersey Coast Line in particular, deals with guidos!! We don't get all that!! The spits are worse here are MN, either ghetto bums or snobbish Greenwich (CT), Scarsdale (NY) or Scarborough (NY) "one-percenters". And the guys I know from CSX (as CSX does a lot of business on MN rail lines, particularly in Westchester County, NY, Bronx NY and Fairfield and New Haven counties in Connecticut), both current employees and former employees who work here at MN speak good things about CSX. The only real complaint is the time spent away from home if they work road assignments, and also the "fun" of working the South Bronx out of Oak Point Yard (ANYONE familiar with the latter I mentioned I am sure would agree hands down!!!!) But otherwise, they spoke good of things. Now don't get me wrong, CSX much like any other railroad, I am sure has dipshit management (believe me, MN sure has a few, as does the governing body, MTA), and we are all outspoken about the dipshit-ism, but doing sites like this does nothing but bring moral down, especially in times when morale can't seem to go any lower. Me, I believe in, during my day to day work, to do my part to make my job easier, and more pleasant and productive. And while the public can be a species all their own, not all of them are bad, and there are quite a few who make your day easier and a lot less stressing!! Forget about politics, let's all just do the job well while we are here, take care of our business, call it a day and head home!! Plain and simple!!

Name: NY Area Commuter RR Conductor E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 09 February 2013 I have read several past posts here (sorry about necroposting, I do not regularly visit here!!), and noticed several from wives of CSX employees who claim basically the railroad had things to do with the failures of their marriages!! I think a reality check is in order here...... First off, simply, the railroad, the schedules or the work on the railroad is NOT the problem!!! YOUR MAN IS THE PROBLEM!! Whether he worked as an engineer or conductor for CSX or worked as a corporate brown-noser in some office on Main Street USA, he would have cheated on you anyway with some 18-22 year old intern, or decided to get cozy in after-work "activities" and "overtime" with that 18-22 year old-looking cougar looking for some "youthful" intimacy levels, or even did the bar thing after hours which many office stiffs still do, or maybe even crashed a few times with your neighbor's 18 year old daughter while you and the neighbor were away, because they spent time chatting on Facebook to do their rendevous. The problem is not the job, it's your man!! He would have cheated anyway!! Second, I work for a major NYC area commuter railroad as a passenger service conductor, and let me say while we get much closer to the 9-5, Sat/Sun/Holidays off kind of work schedule (though 12 to 13 hour work days, with sizeable swing breaks of anywhere from 2 to 6 hours in the middle to bring down the actual on-duty work time for FRA HOS purposes), I can bring you LAUNDRY LISTS worth of conductors, brakemen, trainmen, and engineers who have affairs on their wives AND husbands (sorry ladies, you all are NOT all good, sugar and spice, you have your powerful indiscretions too!!!). I even can tell you about working with an engineer who actually brought his mistress to work with us one day, and while on a turn-around, got a blow job and a quickie before our next train!!! And I have a tale about a female engineer who made rounds with a few conductors, fellow engineers and even snuck in an off-property, non-railroad fling in the mix before their marriage ended!! I can go on!!! Third, in relation to the middle of my second point made above, women have their indiscretions as well. Plenty of you so-called "faithful railroad wives" take many opportunities to go flinging yourselves with all the time your husbands are away. I even have a powerful tale of that, where a male conductor I knew (long since retired), whose regular engineer marked off at the last second for one work day. After the day was done, the husband went straight home, whereas normally him and the engineer, who were great friends (up until this story ends!!!), would go out for a drink or two and let loose a little. He gets home only to make a startling discovery.......his wife in bed with another man!!! And guess who the other man was???? HIS ENGINEER!!! And apparently this fling had been going on for some time, especially when this engineer was on vacation while the conductor would be at work, and so on. Safe to say, marriage ended, friendship ended, and this conductor mentally and emotionally, was NEVER the same again. He even showed many signs of extremely and unusually erractic behaviors, how he interacted with co-workers and other friends took a big turn for the worse, and so on, and he was even nicknamed "The Mummy" because he was there, he worked, but he spoke hardly a word, was like dead quiet all day, and would sit quiet to himself, almost like a mummy. So, come on ladies, you all are not as innocent as you claim!! Many of you have even, I am quite sure, had your fun with the FedEx delivery guy, the pizza boy (in this day and age of "Cougarism", you women especially of middle age are quick to snatch up barely legal boys with even slightly good looks!!!), or the landscaper, and so on!! So don't parade yourselves like you are innocent, YOU ARE NOT!!! While you truly faithful ones I do feel bad for your men doing you all wrong, and I do not speak for you, but other "faithful wives" and female railroad employees have equally high and bad levels of indiscretions just like the guys!! Simply put, don't blame the railroad, blame your man!! Watch the OWN (Oprah Winfrey Network) show "Unfaithful", and see how guys and girls who have jobs that would them home daily and every night, commit terrible indiscretions, and their work schedules and requirements are no where near what working on the railroad requires. It's not the job, it's the individual!! Me, I been married now for my 12th year, and been a railroader for now 15 years (and counting) and I am very loving, faithful and SOLELY for my wife!!! No matter how many bevies of beautiful women I see on my trains on a daily basis, I can stare at the menu all day, but when I get hungry, I ALWAYS GO HOME TO EAT!!! Enough said!!

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for Less than 1 year Posted: 08 February 2013 CSX is up to it again, hiring more conductor's for non-existent jobs. Over 900 employees furloughed over the system, yet they keep sending people to training. These are people who have been misled into believing that there will be a job waiting for them at their home terminal once they graduate from the REDI center. Then, once you graduate you report to the home terminal only to find out that you must learn the job on OJT knowing that you will be furloughed as soon as you mark up. What kind of company does this to people? How enthusiastic and motivated do you think these new people will be knowing they will be laid off immediately after five months of on-the-job training is over? Do you think unemployment is going to pay the mortgage, support their families, and feed them? Didn't think so. The railroad culture is screwed up as well. They expect the conductors to train the trainee, yet the conductors are disciplined if they allow the trainee to do hands-on and they screw up. So what do you think happens most of the time? The conductor tells the trainee to watch and learn. Sure, they might let you tie a few handbrakes, make a few hitches, but the important industry work is usually done by the conductor himself. What about people that are hands-on learners? There are some exceptions, I can mention at least three or four excellent conductors that took the time to really train and allow the trainee to learn how to railroad, but they are the exception. Mostly, you have newly marked up conductors who are still learning to railroad and training the trainees, or mildly retarded burn-outs who couldn't make it in any other industry or profession. These are the ones who feel threatened by anyone with a college degree. They will throw you under the train in a heartbeat if they feel threatened. They will whine to the Trainmaster and lie about you to make themselves feel worthwhile, all the while screwing the company for overtime and breaking every rule in the book. Paranoid schizophrenics, and there are a a lot of them on the railroad. We are talking about the ones who got the job because nepotism used to run rampant throughout the railroad and Daddy got them on the job. There are tons of these guys who have two or three family members working on the railroad. Again, most couldn't make it anywhere else because of their communication skills and work habits. So, beware of taking a position as a freight conductor unless you do your homework and understand how CSX treats it's new employees. You will get marginal training, and be treated like you don't exist by management. And make sure you don't say anything about Billy Bob's sister or daddy now ya hear!

Name: NoMo E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 08 February 2013 If you want to know what's wrong with CSX, the words in this advertisement say it all! Job Description - Trainmaster External Trainee (036887)Job Description Trainmaster External Trainee-036887 Description Important: This position start date is June 4, 2013. Job Summary: Participates in an extensive training program. Upon the successful completion of the program, will be placed as a Trainmaster. Once placed as a Trainmaster, develops and implements an aggressive safety action plan. Directly supervises Train and Engine (T&E) employees, Clerks, and Yardmasters. Conducts annual rules training and operating efficiency testing. Works closely with Engineering, Mechanical, other Field and terminal management personnel, Crew Management, and Operations Center in the handling of crews and operations to make decisions towards safety, service reliability, and cost goals. Training period may last up to approximately 7 months before first placement into Trainmaster role. Primary Activities and Responsibilities: •Provide input for steady improvement in safety of all T&E employees. Perform safety observations and continually increase knowledge of all CSX safety and operating rules. Perform regular efficiency and operational tests, document performance, and submit data promptly and accurately. •Observe performance of T&E employees and identify areas for improvement. Monitor train crew performance daily. •Understand the execution and implementation of the CSX operational effectiveness plan (One Plan). Learn operations of the railroad, union agreements, and customer requirements. •Participate in activities related to derailments and other service disruptions. Participate in investigations and determine cause to ensure future train accident prevention. •Attend customer meetings as required, develop relationships, and understand any service-related issues. •Miscellaneous activities and responsibilities as assigned by manager. Qualifications Minimum Qualifications: •Bachelors degree from an accredited institution required to be completed by class start date (June 4, 2013). •Certifications/Licenses: Must possess a valid Driver's license Preferred Qualifications: In addition to meeting the above qualifications, any of the following are preferred: •Bachelors degree from an accredited institution in Business Administration, Transportation, Logistics, Supply Chain, or Operations to be completed by the class start date (June 4, 2013). •1 or more years of supervisory experience in Manufacturing, Transportation, Logistics, Rail Operations, Skilled Trades (building/construction, electrical, mechanical), or the Military •Certifications/Licenses: Must possess a valid Driver's license Knowledge and Skills: •Railroad industry knowledge •Microsoft Office skills •Mainframe systems skills •Leadership skills •Customer service orientation •Ability to hold people accountable for following operating rules and safety practices •Ability to adapt to a Union environment Competencies: The CSX Competency Framework is the foundation of our Talent Strategy and is what drives CSX performance. CSX accordingly selects and develops talent based on each of the following competencies: analyze issues and make effective decisions, advance the business, engage, coach, and build a diverse workforce, build partnerships, improve service quality and processes, execute effectively, demonstrate personal leadership, and demonstrate functional and technical agility. Job Requirements: •Wear protective equipment such as welding shields, hard hat, hearing protection, steel-toe boots, work boots, safety vest, face shield and safety glasses. •Up to 75% travel required during training period. After training, typically 10% travel required. •Work hours may vary in length and schedule. Work hours may include a nonstandard workweek and various shift work. •Work hours may include on call 7 days a week, 24 hours per day, with extended periods of time away from home. •Need to be available to report to work with two-hour advance notice. •Federal regulations require random testing for drugs and/or alcohol. •Must meet color vision requirements as described in the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) Regulations •Individuals holding this job will be required to relocate upon completion of training. •The applicant selected for this position will be required to successfully complete a background check and physical including a drug test. Passing results must be received prior to start date in new position. Environmental Conditions: •Work outside in all weather conditions. •Work with hazardous materials on an occasional basis. Safety Commitment: Safety is a way of life at CSX, encompassing every aspect of company operations. Guided by a policy of ensuring the safety of our employees, our customers, and the communities we serve, CSX works relentlessly to prevent accidents and injuries. Not only is it the right thing to do, but when a company puts safety first, everyone benefits: the employees and their families, the customers, and the communities. Company Profile: CSX Corporation, a Fortune 500 company headquartered in Jacksonville, FL, is a multi-modal freight transportation company serving customers across North America. Through its primary subsidiary, CSX operates the largest railroad in the eastern United States with operations in 23 states, the District of Columbia, and two Canadian provinces. CSX also includes an integrated intermodal company which serves customers with its own truck and terminal operations as well as a dedicated domestic container fleet. Other CSX subsidiaries provide technology and real estate support to the company. These subsidiaries combine to allow CSX to deliver efficient freight alternatives to customers in a variety of industries, including coal, chemicals, automobiles, metals, agricultural and forest products, food and consumer goods. CSX Transportation (CSXT) is the largest company in the CSX family employing approximately 30,000 management and union employees. CSXT's primary focus is the operation, maintenance, and management of the largest railroad in the eastern United States. Closing Statement: At CSX two of the company's core values are People Make The Difference and Safety Is A Way of Life. We are committed to offering our team members the most competitive compensation and benefits package available, unlimited opportunities for development and growth throughout an exciting and rewarding career, and the safest work environment possible. CSX is an Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action Employer that supports diversity in the workplace. Primary Location: United States Relocation Available :Yes Tax Status: Railroad Retirement Overtime Status: Exempt Closing Date: Mar 1, 2013, 10:59:59 PM Number of Openings: 15

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 06 February 2013 Just a side note for discussion. Locomotive Engineers and Conductors should be in Management. These 2 operating positions could be by contract between the (2) parties. Now with this wonderful plan, given a few years. You could be a free agent. Knowing what everyone has and renegotiate for your next term. Now you are going to need an agent, and that will cost a lot less than union dues, maybe???? but they will work their ass off for number 1 and that is YOU. Let us face the facts, there is no one walking the street today that can step in and do your job. That is POWER.

Name: Goofy E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 06 February 2013 I see the same thing over and over about the Union's. Why is it so hard to understand that (not paying) dues could be the first step? CSX would love to remove the auto deduction from your pay, This is so simple, pay by check and buy a stamp. Now you have a little leeway to send early, late or never. I see some want to strike and set a day to do that, and it never works and never has. However you can strike against the union. Now is the time to get their attention, do it slow and progressive every month until the blood has stopped flowing. CSX will invite T?E to join the company as a (Partner) and you will have a job with much less stress, better benefits, and 2 retirement programs.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Friend or family of employee, for Less than 1 year Posted: 06 February 2013 Let's just say no comment on who it is but one engineer here is very much on to something I can't verify exactly who it is but damn u r very smart at figuring out who wife is referring to!

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 06 February 2013 More active participants that understands the real issues: It's the union bosses that's impeding progress! If you see your union boss being "used" as a company safety captain; the quicker you get him out of office, the quicker you can work your way to the top of the chain and start anew. Why would the top union bosses allow union officers to participate in company safety programs? It's all a ploy to discourage the members from reporting personal injuries and make your life even more miserable! Who can you trust? Railroad executive pay is so out-of-control--that a Human Resource Director accumulated over $133,000,000.00 in stock! That suggest to me that--that director wrote the book on how to inflict maximum punishment on employees for maximum monetary gains for the entire clan of executives. Think about it; if any RR Human Resource Director's position was eliminated; would the railroad stop running trains?

Name: Retired FRA Inspector E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 05 February 2013 APE is absolutely right about the excessive and retaliatory testing that is now being conducted. And from what I observed during the last couple of years, the Federal Railroad Administration has become nothing but a cheerleader for that type of testing. But don't get me wrong, fair and random testing can prevent accidents and save lives. The problem is that FRA refuses to address or even acknowledge the amount of pressure that the railroad is placing on employees to meet production goals. Several one-person remote control operators told me that it was impossible to meet production expectancies and still comply with all of the rules. I passed that information to my supervisors at FRA, but it apparently fell on deaf ears. I'm proud of what I did to enforce the law and protect railroad employees from danger, but I'm sure not proud of the agency I worked at. Managers at FRA act as though they are either in bed with the railroads, or scared to death of them. Now OSHA on the other hand is not afraid to stand up to railroad management and to protect workers from harassment and intimidation by their employers. For years, railroad friendly politicians kept OSHA away from railroad properties because FRA was supposed to be guarding the henhouse. And because of that, railroad employees were deprived of OSHA protection and had to rely on a toothless government agency. I say that because FRA never gave its inspectors the training or authority to administer OSHA regulations. But now OSHA has regulatory authority to investigate certain railroad matters involving the harassment and intimidation of railroad employees. OSHA has been led by a presidential appointee that cared about American workers and their well-being. But that does not seem to be the case with FRA. When I first heard that the president had appointed a former railroad labor leader, I had high expectations. But those expectations never materialized. I believe that the railroad unions need to grow a pair and begin demanding a better workplace for their members. And that will only happen if you, the members, demand that from your unions.

Name: Dionysus E-mail: dionysus@greekgods.org Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 05 February 2013 Mere mortals, I am Dionysus, son of Zeus and Semele. I, along with the 11 other Olympians reside on Mount Olympus. I am the God or wine and ecstasy. I return yearly to lead my worshippers in drunken revelry and fornication prior to the Christian ritual of Lent. Statutes have been sculpted, portraits painted and books written Although none show my mighty grandeur, it was cold on Olympus when I posed, nor begin to explore the depth of my good nature and frivolity. I will only be here a short time and so I command you mere mortals to follow me for the the next week in treachery, lechery and debauchery. Vino veritas!

Name: E-mail: Employed as: APE, for N/A Posted: 05 February 2013 Ape 20-30 The problem is that management has got these new guy scared to death to say anything because they know a target will be put on their backs. They see and know things that are going on that are totally unethical or violations of cxs rules but they are to scared to call the ethics hotline or file a report. Now that the company has made just about every rule a serious charge if it is violated, people are scared to look sideways because just a few violations will put you on the street. The union has not stepped in and said enough is enough on this progressive discipline. Just an easier way for management to target a single individual and trump up the charges to send him packing! Guarentee you it wont be long before just about everything becomes a major charge! Nomo brought up a topic on here earlier that no one has had the balls to address but they know its going on(the on board issue). My guess is they know shitz will hit the fan and some supervisors will go down and they will have to suffer the wrath of test failures. Union used to care about excessive testing on an employee but they just dont care anymore. When an LC is told that an employee had 2 banner test and 2 switch tag test in one day when leaving his terminal and then 2 more banner test when leaving his away from home terminal that should bring up a red flag and they should be calling someone to find out why they are giving this employee so much of their personal attention instead of saying..."they have the right to test and they can do that"! A monkey could figure out its excessive testing if not stalking! Bet if that happened to the LC he would be crying like a little bi... and it wouldnt happen again to him! LC's need to lead the troops, not abandon them!

Name: RRJ E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 05 February 2013 The start of the changes with rail unions came in the '80s after Raygun fired the air traffic controllers. That's only one part the other is since the greedy '90s thru the present unions have been vilafied as evil corrupt organizations. Who makes these claims? Lobbiest for the corporations through these fake organizations that sound legit. Lobbiest like Grover Norquest as one example with"Citizens for Tax Reform". Yes, there are citizens that support him CEO's of every corporation. You don't see Grover dunning middle class Americans. The other is union participation is down 10 years ago union meeting I went to were standing room only. Today lucky to get a quarem to have a meeting which is only 6 people. Union is only as strong as it's members. Get involved or lose it. It's that simple. Every contract, every election ect....49% don't take the time to send in a ballot. It doesn't cost anything included with the ballot is a pre-stamped envelope. Everyone can make it to at least 4-6 meetings a year when they're at home. JUst because dues are taken out doesn't mean anything if a person is like the 2nd & 3rd string player on a team just a bench warmer. Today there are to many bench warmers bitching. You think without your union you would make what you do? That your family would have health coverage? How about RRB? Not to many structured pensions left for someone without a higher education. Sure the bonus is down this year but that's what union members voted for in 2007 & 2010. I voted against preferring payraises which might of been smaller than in the past due to the economy but they are forever. I really don't know what the union can do with CSX style of managing these days. NS always had this type of management for as long as I can remember. Unions couldn;t do much about it. It's their railroad.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 05 February 2013 I agree with the Ex-FRA... America's unions has lost its edge to lead by example; too many nowadays are making headlines from corruption while CEO'S are importing more and more cheap labor to undermine the will of the people for personal gains. Corporate media is bombarding the airwaves with invented polls suggesting that a majority of Americans would support amnesty for 11 million "illegal" immigrants. I cannot name or know of any "American" middle class worker in this unpredictable political environment, who would support giving amnesty to 11 million lawbreakers. Who pays the welfare bills for the illegals? You do! Laws are created to support and sustain a democracy. Why do we sit idlely by and allow corporate America and politicians to tweak the laws for personal gains at the expense of a proven formula that made and built America and knowing that en masse immigration is corporate America's tool to control wages and too enrich themselves? Lets clean our unions first! Challenge your union bosses and ask questions! Start out and ask why their wages have gone-up on average more than the members they represent. In some cases three fold; and ask why so many union officers are being indicted for corruption or raiding their member's hard earned dues! (unionfacts.org). One Man With Courage Is A Majority!

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years Posted: 04 February 2013 Hey wifey with cheating husband is it Marc Barrett? Heard he's having probl wife will upgrade cause he's not good to her.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: APE, for 20-30 years Posted: 04 February 2013 fra coulndnt agree with you more , we MUST ! stick together to overcome this intimidation from management the sad thing is it aint gona happen because you just cant get everyone to do it . ... truely sad because we are honestly being treated like shit. I can only speak for myself but i very much plan on doing my part and only wish others fall in line,or things will never change. we have nobody to blame but the unions and ourselves. what a shame, I used to like going to work and making a living for my family and now i cant wait to get out of there.

Name: Retired FRA Inspector E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 04 February 2013 Those at the top of the corporate ladder didn't get there by being nice to contract employees. They most likely got to the top by doing just the opposite. Bonuses and promotions for mid level managers are predicated on their ability to cut jobs and force fewer employees to do the same amount of work, or more. And it seems that is generally being accomplished by harassment and intimidation. Hitler used the same tactics. German citizens were extremely scared to say or do anything contrary to Nazi policy. These Gestapo management tactics have been used since the beginning of time. But because of strong unions and worker friendly politicians, the use of those tactics declined through the mid 20th century. Now, they seem to be back with a vengeance. Those at the mid and top levels of management are being grossly and unjustly rewarded for cutting costs and enhancing profits, even if contract employees and their families are morally and/or physically hurt in the process. I believe that the only answer to this dilemma is for workers to unite once again, just as they did back in the mid 20th century. When the strength of the unions began to decline during the Reagan years, workers started suffering. Then when Clinton took over, good jobs started going to other countries. And guess who benefited from the policies of both parties. It sure wasn't the American worker! More unions and stronger unions are the answer. United we stand, divided we fall. And we all need to watch who we vote for. Look what the Republicans are trying to do to our unions! If they have their way, slavery will once again appear in this country. I have often heard on this site that unions don't do anything for their members. That is because unions have been weakened by the grand scheme that was orchestrated by corporate America and the wealthy. And because of their weakened state, unions no longer have much clout with corporations, politicians or Federal agencies. At one time railroad unions had a lot of clout with FRA. In my opinion, FRA now only hears the voices of railroad managers. That is why I retired!

Name: Hater E-mail: Employed as: Train Master/ supervisor, for 20-30 years Posted: 03 February 2013 I hate Frulla !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 2013

Name: WTF E-mail: Employed as: Train Master/ supervisor, for 10-20 years Posted: 03 February 2013 Please help me understand how in the world the railroad has become a very very bad placed to work. It's terrible to love your job but you hate to come to work. It's not the T&E employeess it's upper management. We at CSX used ,yep used to be proud of our company. Those days are long gone thanks to the bad attitudes of employees who are sick of the upper management, (the Frulla's,Vierlings, Connors, Jarrells,Burriss,) and I suppose other ones I can"t think of. I remember crews taking pride at getting a train from point A to point B safely and without delay ,now all they want to do is go to work get on a train and get off the train in 12 hours without getting fired or charged with some bullshit and they don't care if they ever turn a wheel. There is no pride left. Thank You Upper Management

Name: E-mail: Employed as: CSX Customer, for N/A Posted: 03 February 2013 nate curry has left the building

Name: RRJ E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 02 February 2013 New Guy Quit! You don't have an excuse of anything to lose. LOL! I can understand someone whose vested with 10+ years complaining they earned it. Management today isn't like it use to be that changed way before you got hired. CSX isn't going anywhere it's one of the top 4 class 1 railroads in this country. Where the railroads have gone astray is hiring anyone off the street instead of hiring people from a railroad family like decades ago people who knew the score. Most likely you're furloughed guess what it happens. When I hired out in '70s I worked 2 1/2 weeks got furloughed for 3 months called back for 6 weeks then furloughed again for 3 1/2 months. This pattern continued for the next 3 years every winter a furlough. I finally took a transfer somewhere else on the system. Don't take it personal.

Name: It's coming E-mail: Employed as: Train Master/ supervisor, for 20-30 years Posted: 01 February 2013 Bob FRULLA's accident report can be recieved from the state police barracks at post 9 in pikeville ky.Pictures of the accident will be posted.Anyone that needs the information for the class action law suit on the grounds of discrination due to CSX firing people for small violations and letting this clown by with his numerous rule violations without any discipline action for his failures.....

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Corporate office, for 20-30 years Posted: 01 February 2013 Concerned Still waiting on those pictures of frulla accident that you said would be posted on here. Well?

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 01 February 2013 higher management on the huntington division disregard union agreements. they do as they please and are never held responsible. the contract states that after an X-amount of extra jobs are called with in a week. there will be a regular call time job put on for bid. but the jobs are never put on for bid. i guess you could blame the unions too. because it seems they arent doing anything about it either. also we are left out there to load trains at mines with no recrews for 12 to 14 hrs everyday. they say they dont have the man power to recrew us. well guess what they would have the man power if they didnt have every one with less than 12 years service furloughed. CSX treats there employees as only a number. they dont care about us or our families the way their website says. Its all just PR. all they care about is cutting jobs so they can get a bigger bonus.

Name: Retired FRA Inspector E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 31 January 2013 I hate CSX too!

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for Less than 1 year Posted: 31 January 2013 We all hate csx and hope they go out of business and were the new guys !

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 31 January 2013 Comments about FRA inspectors: Ever read the FRA'S media reports after major accidents (fatalities)? The reports are always deliberately inaccurate and misleading. A major rail (sp) carrier had a head on collision last year; with three fatalities. The FRA'S report so far says that both trains were not speeding. How can two trains on the same track going in opposite directions; not be speeding? The FRA'S report cites one train at 60+MPH and the other 30+MPH and possible "human error". Someone has to stop! Right? Does anyone know the rationale as to why the government would condone false reporting to the public?

Name: E-mail: Employed as: APE, for 20-30 years Posted: 30 January 2013 locomotive your right its the young ones i feel sorry for too, it is management that makes it suck . i dont hate anyone .... even csx (the company)but the people running the place sure as hell dont know how to treat people thats for sure . but carma has a funny way of working things out.....we all just need to stick together as a team and it will turn out ok . when you treat your people like crap you will get what you ask for sooner or later. they will see !

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 20-30 years Posted: 30 January 2013 APE: We are all in the same boat, the ones who have really come to hate this place. I said it before that even the young guys coming in the door can't believe how bad this place is ran. It doesn't take long before they carry the same attitude. Just goes to show that it isn't the employees, its the management style.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: APE, for 20-30 years Posted: 30 January 2013 csx keep treating your people like crap....its gona come back to get you just watch. for all you people on here that keep saying why dont you just leave, the fra inspector hit it on the nose ...some of us have to much time in this shithole just to walk away,if i wasnt supporting a family i would have left 5 yrs ago . thats alright though nice n slow the rest of the way i can do it .... i can do it ...i can do it ...i can do it .... dam i hope i can do it !

Name: Retired FRA Inspector E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 30 January 2013 Don't count on a job with FRA unless you are a trainmaster or have been in some other managerial position at a railroad. FRA has been using this flawed method of selecting inspectors for many years now. There are many engineers and conductors that are far more qualified to be an FRA inspector than the individuals that supervise them. The same holds true for the mechanical department employees I have known. Perhaps this is why FRA now seems to be management friendly in their dealings with railroads.

Name: RRJ E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 30 January 2013 When RRB speaks of early retirement it's 60 years old. By todays standard full retirement age is 66. What RRB stated about 240 months credit but less than the 360 months credit would be prorated with at least a 20% reduction if retiring at 60. There isn't any other age. A person can separate from the railroad keep the RRB credits IF they go into business for themselves or there are some government jobs like the FRA where you wouldn't lose it. Retiring with less than 360 months credit also affects the spouse they can't draw their portion till age 66 it'll be at a prorated reduction.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 20-30 years Posted: 29 January 2013 Where is everyone going to spent that big BoneUS paycheck we be getting very soon. LMAO

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 29 January 2013 Retihared FRA You of all people should know what happens when a railroads freight is delayed because the car that it was in was shopped. I just dont understand for the life of me why management has taken this "rule by fear mentality" so strongly with its employee's. The economy wont be bad forever. It will turn around. People will be able to eventually find work elsewhere. They know that the employees can break them. All they have to do is sit down. If they dont get the freight together and move it, then the powers to be in Washington would be so far up their butts they wouldnt be able to stand on their toes! The RR is not mcdonalds. You cant have a bunch of people walk away from moving freight and disrupt U.S. commerce without a whole bunch of heat coming down. With that being said, I would think our unions would have more powers of persuassion. Oh, that was a dumb comment. Wont do any good if the members dont stick together!

Name: Retired FRA Inspector E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 29 January 2013 Since the beginning of time, there has been worker abuse, both mental and physical. And that abuse has generally been inflicted by employers and slave owners. Unfortunately, the corporate employers of today are still carrying on the tradition. Those that have risen to the top of these corporations have developed extreme greed. Or perhaps they were born with that greed. At any rate, they will abuse employees as necessary in order to maximize profits for their corporations. And of course those profits feed the greed of both stockholders and top managers. But some corporations abuse employees at higher levels than others. And in the past, some railroads were better to work for than others. When I worked for the old C&O, employees were generally treated well. Then B&O managers started taking over at some locations and they generally ruined the morale of everyone. They were nasty to the C&O employees. That is exactly what happened at the Huntington Locomotive Shop where I worked at the time of the C&O-B&O merger. I was also told years ago that vast differences existed between the management styles of the New York Central and Pennsylvania railroads before their merger. And also differences between the Norfolk and Western and the Southern railroads. So, as the commenter below stated, there is really not much difference now. It seems like the railroad mergers have driven the worst of the worst to the top management ranks. With the reality that has just been described, those on the outside do wonder why railroad employees don't just go someplace else to work. Well, it because of two things. Wages and job security. That is why they don't just go someplace else. And it does not come from greed. These people just want to earn a descent living for their families, and are only putting up with this crap for their families. In my eyes that makes them real men. Quite the opposite from the top railroad managers who earn their living by being nasty to their employees.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Brakeman, for 1-10 years Posted: 29 January 2013 Loco 10-20 You got it right on my man. I planned on tryng to stay 30 years but I not sure my sanity will let me. I called the rr retirement board and spoke to them in length about early retirement. I was told if I left with 20 years service(like people in the military) I would lose 30 percent of my retirement. Maybe we should all do just as nomo said. Just walk away. Everyone call cmc at once and tell them you QUIT! See how long it takes the union to start calling because they want your money. Watch them get accused of starting a strike. Wouldnt that just be funny. When I first was hired the company used to have posters all over the property with the slogan NO JOB IS SO IMPORTANT, NO JOB IS SO URGENT....blah...blah... (you know the rest) They used to point it out to us and preach working safely,safely, safely! Then when they would get behind and start breathing down our necks to rush, we would point out their posters and quote the quote. It didnt take long for those posters to disappear. Lucky to find one on the property in any building. Nomo is right in one area. Nothing is going to change unless something drastic is done by the employees. The union isnt going to do a thing about it and will just keep taking your money. You can bet your bottom dollar though that if the employees take action and shit hits the fan, the unions will step right in and try to resolve the issues and take all the credit for it if anyone comes back!

Name: RRJ E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 29 January 2013 Other Not sure which side of CSX you're discussing but the last locomotive firemen on the C&O rosters happened in early 1985. That year the UTU sold out the first brakemen slot thru attrition along with the firemen seeing they had the contract. Everyone in engine service that didn't have previous trainmen seniority were placed on the trainmens seniority roster with a date of July 1, 1985. After 1985 we could no longer excersise our fireman rights. It really didn't matter there was a buy out of locomotive engineers for $50,000. The subdivision I worked on Jan 1, 1986 11 LE's retired every firemen got marked up that day. It would of happened sooner in 1985 except there was a hurricane that flooded the James River destroyed over 200 miles of track. With rebuilding the railroad and diverting traffic the buy out was postponed for 3 1/2 months. I'm only discussing the C&O not any other railroad that made up Chessie System, SCL, or CSX at the time.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years Posted: 29 January 2013 NoMo: Yes I am talking about retirement. I have almost 20 years, and everyone knows that you lose big time if you retire early, its a fact that you have to do the 30 yrs. or the pay out is far less. You can forget about letting your money roll back into S.S. because its no secret that you probably won't see it, they keep raising the age for benefits. You mentioned a 401k? Thats nothing but a crap shoot, in 2009 many people lost almost everything they had ever worked for. NoMo, you can defend the shit hole all you want. Nobody in any company should be treated the way CSX employees are treated. When you have time invested such as you said; seniority, pension, wages, you aren't just going to drop everything and start over at the bottom. CSX SUCKS!

Name: NoMo E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 28 January 2013 Hey Loco 10-20: Excuse me but "years invested", I'm not quite sure I understand. The only thing you could be talking about is seniority and vacation. If you've been at CSX 10 years your fully vested in your 401K and it rolls over. Your RR retirement goes with you to another carrier. Even if go to work outside the RR your SS still get credited. I'm not sure seniority and a weeks vacation is worth putting up with the BS. What it boils down to is you either tolerate it or leave. Is it alright for management to harass employees? No. Are most transportation managers incompetent? Yes. Is it going to get any better? No, not even if Ward and his senior managers go. They will just bring in a batch of unqualified, inexperienced managers fresh out of college of from places like IBM or GE. As long as CSX is a public company the pressure will be on the bottom line and management will do whatever it takes to drive home their bonuses. I don't think the situation is unique to CSX...I think any publicly traded company large or small have the same problem, save the high techs; which have to foster creativity and free thinking. Not to mention their work force is smarter and better educated than management. If you hired in anytime before Ward became CINC on even shortly thereafter, you know that at one time CSX was a pretty good place to work. Those days are long gone and won't be coming back!

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 28 January 2013 Name: RRJ E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 25 January 2013 Ray-Dar LOL! CSX modeled itself after Norfolk Southern by hiring some of the NS top echilon back in the 2005. CSX use to be a good place to work. Then they hired Tony Ingram from the NS and the nazi storm trooper BS began. I guess NS is going back to their old ways. In all reality it was about a frigging award called the Harriman that NS usually wins. RRJ This whole thing is about who run's the show. The RR had firemen until the last diesel Fireman was hired in 1990

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years Posted: 28 January 2013 Nomo: I'm am one of those that has years invested and I'm not leaving either. Yes I will continue bitch about the incompetence because thats what it is. Are you part of management? You sure sound like it. You say that harassing employees is just business? You must be management.

Name: NoMo E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 28 January 2013 Hey Loco 1-10: I'm not defending anyone. If you don't like your job find another that pays as much...bottom line, you can't. Even if you could, I doubt it would be any better. If you think for a second that CSX or any other large public company thinks about what you or anyone else think, you're sorely mistaken. Don't take it personally, it's just business. Do I like it, hell no I don't like it...I can't change it...no. so I roll with the punches. In your case, you have a Union...the Union meeting is the place to bitch about conditions, not here...you and I both know what the problem is. A bunch of spoiled titty babies that have never worked a day in their lives that think CSX or any other employer owes them a living. Anyone that thinks anything they do on the RR is hard or justifies their pay has never worked a day in their life. I know I sound like you father, mother or wife but it's the truth. Be thankful you have the job you do and remember, there's thousands out there waiting for you position and that you are expendable! Kinda like Doritos...they'll make more!

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years Posted: 28 January 2013 Nomo: I'm sorry but the employees have every right to feel this way. For example, they have cut the yard jobs probably to the bone and are still scraping. Since cutting jobs, now they are trying to push employees to work faster! Remember what CSX always tries to preach...safety? NO JOB SO IMPORTANT, NO SERVICE SO URGENT, THAT WE CANNOT TAKE THE TIME TO PERFORM ALL WORK SAFELY? Now they are slowly trying to push people, but the first time someone has an accident or derails, management always says "Why were you going so fast? There is no hurry out here!" Nomo, you always try to defend these idiots in some strange way. Face the facts, that this is a shit hole of an operation these days. Most guys aren't going to quit because they shouldn't have to quit, its not there fault CSX management is among the least qualified in railroading and most incompetent among employee relations. Most guys have a good amount of time invested towards retirement, and it wasn't all screwed up like this when they hired out. I came from Conrail and I won't be they last to tell you that it doesn't have to be this way to profit and run a successful operation. CSX DOES SUCK, and I am grateful to have a website like this that reveals the truth.

Name: Retired FRA Inspector E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 28 January 2013 CSX Mechanical Operations employees are generally treated far better than those on the transportation side. However, a couple of years ago several managers from Jacksonville camped out at Stanley Yard to scrutinize the activities of the car inspectors employed there. It was believed that the car inspectors were taking too much time inspecting trains. After the managers returned to Jacksonville things began to settle down. However, it seemed as though far fewer freight cars were being shopped by the car inspectors. I was still finding a lot of defects though. I would never recommend CSX to anyone. By the time I retired last year, NS seemed to be the better of the two to work for. But the short line employees were treated the best. Not as much pay, but they sure seemed happier. The Amtrak crews also appeared to have good morale. And they were extremely professional. Knowing that the Amtrak trains run 79 m.p.h. up here on the Chicago Line, that made me feel very good.

Name: NoMo E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 28 January 2013 It just staggers my imagination why people that hate CSX continue to work for them. No working person likes everything about their employer and yes CSX sucks in more ways than can be counted. However, to continue to subject yourself to CSX's abuses when you can leave at any time is beyond all reason! If you're not happy in your work, all the money in the world won't make it better. The question you should ask is if CSX bent over backwards to make your job "perfect" and cut your pay by 60%, would you be any happier...I think we know the answer to that. You now know what money tastes like...shit!

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 10-20 years Posted: 28 January 2013 To CSX supervisor, I think you are talking about you instead of the other people on here. The people on here do not sit back and take ass chewings from upper management as you do. Keep on taking it up the ass buddy!

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for Less than 1 year Posted: 27 January 2013 You are not alone my friend

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 1-10 years Posted: 27 January 2013 I - HATE - CSX!

Name: Retired FRA Inspector E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 26 January 2013 If the majority of the transportation officials I dealt with toward the last had any morals or ethics, they were very well hidden. I learned that first hand by the way Rob Burkett and Lennon Givens attempted to bully and stalk me. And I also heard how nasty they had been to both transportation and mechanical contract employees. I was told that when I called the police on Burkett and Givens, they initially accused the Carmen of making the call and began interrogating them. That was totally disgusting. It reminded me of how the Gestapo of Nazi Germany operated. So, the post by Trainmaster/Supervisor for 30+ only fortifies my observations. The lack of morals and ethics in an individual is what causes them to perform corrupt acts. Their very soul then becomes corrupted and they no longer have a conscience. Corporate America of today uses these individuals to help maximize their profits and beat their employees into submission.

Name: NoMo E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 26 January 2013 Hey Trainmaster/Supervisor for 30+ : Talk about "uneducated douche bags"...anyone that would post the same comment under all under all six topics is a prime example of an "uneducated douche bags". you go on to add..."This web site was designed to show how corrupted CSX really is"; corrupted? Well I think the discussion deals with just that. Corruption comes in many forms, in this case morals and ethics. Oh, by the way...for a supervisor, your keyboarding skills are abysmal!

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Friend or family of employee, for Less than 1 year Posted: 26 January 2013 Reading the post below ( the trainmaster/super) I agree with the person that says you are one of them. You are the one that is UNEDUCATED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!. Its okay for csx to be corrupt and talk about it, but dont talk about anything that pertains to unethical people like yourself. Go hid your head in a pillow and cry. Its about time that these spouse's that are married to csx employees (that are cheaters) need to start investigating their spouses. Catch them and take them for everything they have. As the old saying you play you pay.

Name: Lol E-mail: Employed as: Train Master/ supervisor, for 30+ years Posted: 26 January 2013 I love how everyone is so worried about everyone's cheating habits.Take this crap on Jerry Springer.This web site was designed to show how corrupted CSX really is.You idiots are showing how retarded you really are.Uneducated douche bags.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 25 January 2013 Railroad shipping rates and CEO salaries are not sustainable: Massive unemployment looming due to the budget deficits. Spain already has 26% unemployment and half the debt ratios of America. Corporate America has raided the middle-class....The average earnings of a corporate CEO is 356 times earnings of its entry level employee. Sell your holdings and ride it out for at least two years!!! We do not have political leaders who will hold corporate America accountable!!!

Name: The E-mail: smart one!!! Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 24 January 2013 I have been out of this crap hole company for 4 years. I STIIL SEE IT TRUELY SUCKS!!! Damn, now there are men with perfectly looking Christian wives cheating with defensive tackle material looking company woman!!!LLLMMMAAAAOOOOO I love it!!: keeping it going!! Hey Christion?? Did he at least hit the "BROWN EYE" when he bent it over???lmmmmaaaooo

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Friend or family of employee, for 1-10 years Posted: 24 January 2013 To post below: My thoughts exactly when what goes around comes,around to LBT (and my lying cheating ex too) I would hate to be her (or him).

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Friend or family of employee, for 1-10 years Posted: 24 January 2013 And to friend/family n/a Obviously ur not Christian or u wouldn't back up a liar and a cheater and judge me! Shame on u! And sry I meant alabama not south so go up a little further Mr. B knows who he is and who I'm referring to that's all that matters.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Friend or family of employee, for 1-10 years Posted: 24 January 2013 To posts 2 posts below: Absolutely I am a good Christian mother! Y do u doubt that/ do I know u/ please explain?! And to post below don't worry he will find out I will b entitled to quite a bit and I will go for it and get it. His mistakes and disgusting behavior will cost him.

Name: MoNo E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 24 January 2013 South Alabama? That would have to be Mobile maybe Flomaton!

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Friend or family of employee, for N/A Posted: 24 January 2013 Friend family 1-10 Good, faithful CHRISTIAN mother? CHRISTIAN? A good CHRISTIAN mother does not say such things. Mad or not. Scorned or burned...not! A real good christian would not post such things, so I dont believe one did. Who ever posted that garbage.....SHAME ON YOU! This is csx sucks, not AIR YOUR DIRTY LAUNDRY AT HOME SITE!

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Friend or family of employee, for 1-10 years Posted: 23 January 2013 Yes it was her go figure I seen what she looks like. I told her husband who must be used to calls from wives because he didn't care guess he's afraid if her divorces her it will cost him something. Whatever I'm different cause I have a moral code and I have need for my soon to be ex its gonna cost him PLENTY and he must need a mirror because everyone who knows us wonders how he got me in the first place. Dumb luck.. And a bunch of lies because I believed he was an honest person. Right If u play u pay...and I can't wait to see the ugly heffer he will be with in about 5 more yrs she will prob b another LBT he totally deserves it can't wait to laugh my head off.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Friend or family of employee, for 1-10 years Posted: 23 January 2013 I am the wife of an engineer that has worked for this company for almost 20 yrs close to it. He is a the father of a precious baby. I have been with him for over 6 yrs bit can't and won't take constant cheating, lying and being treated like absolute crap. I will end this marriage with a bang because I have proof to back up my claims of him cheating and even with his boss trainmaster that is and was older, fater and waaay uglier and flat out disgusting but I found out while reporting their cheating, to ethics and getting her moved to another state she screws whatever will bend her over. Pardon me while I puke! This is no life and I am one hell of a catch and I am fed up. Someone out there would appreciate me, I am a good, Christian, faithful mother and wife I deserve a partner that will not bring me home any diseases is that too much to ask for. And as far as my soon to be ex he works out of south al figure it out gbye Mr. B I'm done.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Friend or family of employee, for N/A Posted: 22 January 2013 Concerned Have been watching the picture forum for your pictures of the frulla accident. Dont see them yet.... what gives?

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for Less than 1 year Posted: 22 January 2013 This place is something else hire you fire you or furlough you give you paper route money on furlough then find some shit reason to take the money back guarantee dept told me I should look into going on welfare if furlough pay not enough I didn't join this shit hole to be on welfare my life was good before I came here thought I was moving up Instead went 10 steps back thanks csx people are more than just a number we have lifes and family's I quit suck it csx

Name: United E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 20-30 years Posted: 22 January 2013 This web site was created to open the eyes of employees,families,customers,and the public on how CSX really is.The harassment,discrimination,courtesy,lack of customer needs, this "company" cares for no one.This includes your families.your life..Why do you think that the company gives use ID #? Outside people looks at this site to be educated on how Csx really does treat there employees and customers.So with that being said I want to say this "THIS SITE WASN'T DESIGNED TO BASH EACH OTHER". Every time a CSX Suck gets on here and sees employees cutting each other,those clowns smile real big and say to themself "We're winning there breaking down" so please it you have a problem with someone and need to release it, go them or put it on "TOPIX" thanks .....

Name: NoMo E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 17 January 2013 Hey Friend: Lay pipe! Which brings me to something I have herd, which I found hard to believe until the same story surfaced from different subs in different divisions in both regions. Which tells me this came from upon high. Since Sanborn made the video last year about upgrading the on board I'll assume she is "in charge" Why are the Cons working the Locals with the on board work reporting devices being instructed by their supervisor to lie about what time the put out of the yard...no more than a 1.5 hours from their on duty time and to show no more than 1 hour per industry and if that's not how they report the work, they can expect to "get a letter from Jacksonville warning them of possible discipline for not reporting the work properly on the on board". That is a threat and an overt intimidation. What possible reason would CSX have for lying to their customers and the stockholders? Hey L&N Dispatcher, are you out there? If so help me out. It's been a long time and I still haven't recovered from my recent trek to Miami and Mardi Gras is upon me. My question to you is, don't the trains trip a time stamp when they pass a signal that can be accessed from a screen on the mainframe. Seems I remember something like that! If CSX is going to lie they better cover all the bases. I would think the FRA would be interested in these tales of fancy not to mention the customers and shareholders. In reality however, CSX is just lying to themselves. It seems to be working, I'm beginning to think they believe they're doing an outstanding job!

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 1-10 years Posted: 17 January 2013 Even the newer employees are starting to say how they hate this company....lol They go through the schooling, get marked up, and get fired almost instantly for something pathetic.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Friend or family of employee, for N/A Posted: 17 January 2013 NOMO It has already started. They are working in teams of 3 so they have more witness against you when they charge you with some bogus petty crap! Business is down and people are cut back. No reason to hire new employees. Seats are getting cold at the school! Now is the time to sit back and see what our union officials are made of. Rumor also has it(per some local reps) that the reason employees are getting charge letters of investigation for a "first time" missed call is because they are pissed at the conductors for refusing to take their last worthless offer to accept the bid system!

Name: CorrUPtion Blogger E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 16 January 2013 Only in America: JP Morgan Chase CEO gets a $10 Million pay cut for losing $1 Billion in trading corporate funds! Is it time for our political leaders to "outsource" Justice to China? Or is it time that union leaders authorize a strike to wake-up our political leaders, in order to save the country from doom? Imagine what a two-day strike would do to ignite the congress too focus on the people's business! A $17 TRILLION DEFICIT AND COUNTING?

Name: Concerned E-mail: Employed as: Train Master/ supervisor, for 20-30 years Posted: 16 January 2013 For the comment on "Bob FRULLA's on track accident " pictures and police report will be posted on here within the next week. Frulla did not receive any discipline for his non csx rule compliance.Anyone on CSX PROPERTY THAT HAS BEEN FIRED FOR A MINOR VIOLATION AND RECIEVED TIME OFF NEEDS TO LOOK INTO A CLASS ACTION LAW SUIT AGAINEST CSX ON THE GROUND OF DISCRIMINATION.

Name: NoMo E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 15 January 2013 Hey Friend: http://lifeinc.today.com/_news/2013/01/15/16526586-wal-mart-plans-to-hire-100000-veterans?lite Under employer tax incentives for hiring veterans extended as part of the fiscal cliff deal, Wal-Mart can get a tax credit of $2,400 for hiring veterans that have been searching for work for at least four weeks but less than six months. Veterans with service-related disabilities are worth even more, up to $9,600 per hire.

Name: NoMo E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 15 January 2013 Hey Friend: I saw that, 100,000 over the next 5 years, that's 20,000 a year. CSX will have to ramp up the firings and furloughs before they can even think about competing. I'm not a big Walmart fan but my opinion is changing. I don't think Walmart has a college of "retail knowledge" and I don't know if they get any grants from the Federales for hiring vets! T do however think the King has been overthrown.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Friend or family of employee, for N/A Posted: 15 January 2013 NOMO Looks like csx is getting ready to get kicked to the curve for most veteran friendly when it comes to hiring. Saw where walmart is launching the larged program in history for hiring veterans! Wonder what they are going to come up with to crawl back to the top of the "PAT ME ON THE BACK BECAUSE I'M SO GOOD" spot! This should be interesting! Think they will call the feds and ask for all that money the rr is getting because they will be hiring thousands more and they need it more than the rr?

Name: NoMo E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 14 January 2013 Hey Loco 1-10: I understand some recrews, cab fares, lodging and meals are unavoidable but CSX could certainly reduce those expenses by a third or maybe more with some creative reasoning. I have personally spent the better part of four days sitting in a hotel watching windows crews run around me, in some cases two times. After I called the Chief to complain, I got my call within an hour. The TM on duty was put out because he wasn't ready to run the train, which had been in Gentilly for two days. There are runs on the system, Pensacola to Mobile which is 98 miles that routinely take 12 hours. There is no reason that, at least occasionally, those crews cant deliver, turn and burn and if they can't get in, at least get inside the YL where a transfer crew can yard it. Mobile to New Orleans is another run that crews could swap out at Gulfport. Everybody sleeps in their own bed, their spouses and children are happy and CSX saves shit loads of money. There are literally 100s of runs system wide where scenarios like that would work. One of the most asinine things I saw were the face to face meetings with the Division Manager, I don't know if they still even do that but when that started back in 04, five men at a time were loaded in a PTI van and hauled to Atlanta (350 miles) to pow-wow with the man. That was a minimum of two days. The man should have hauled his happy ass to Mobile and saved some dough. I remember seeing a system notice sometime ago, probably 03 or 04 that said CSX spent $300 million in cab fares, god only knows what meals and lodging came to. Any efficiencies there would save hundreds of million of dollars. CSX wants to be an industry leader. In order to do that, they have to innovate or think outside the box. Like the Amtrak engineer said, CSX is in the dark ages. In business you innovate or parish!

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 1-10 years Posted: 14 January 2013 Nomo: You said CSX wastes there money on recrews, cab fares, hotels, meals, training & investigations??? Recrews & cabs? Thats something all railroads deal with, its needed and its nothing new. Things happen with trains that cause an outlaw and you can't walk 100 miles. Hotels & meals? Another expense that has been there for a long time, agreement and also by law. Training? What kind of training are you talking about? Investigations? You are absolutely right on this one, but they bring this one on themselves and we all know this. The company wants failures, they want people fired for the dumbest things, they want the Hitler mentality within management ranks. In order for them to be Nazi Germany all over again, it has to go through investigation....lol What can I say, Conrail was never like this, and they made money!

Name: NoMo E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 14 January 2013 Hey Dave Joe: Thank you for explaining to CSX that there is no need to print and force the T&E crews carry 25# of paper each when there are more effective means available. The only reason imaginable to continue this nonsense is 1) they're unbelievably stupid, or 2) some wheel's wife, son, daughter or another close relative or inlaw has the inside track on the printing. Does CSX still use those little 4 OZ. bottles of water? That was an arms length deal if there ever was one!

Name: Switch Tender E-mail: Employed as: APE, for 10-20 years Posted: 14 January 2013 Be sure to work safe and move those cars to the customers as quickly as possible. We need to ensure Mike Ward can afford his new vacation home in the South of France. He deserves it. So does DK Jones. Bow down and worship the CSX Gods. Crown and Glory. Hail Michael, King of the World, we worship thee and DK Jones and adore thee. We are NOTHING without thee. Thy are the truth, the light and glory. Hail all, Hail one. Hail to God Michael and DK.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Corporate office, for 20-30 years Posted: 14 January 2013 LOCO If its been said once it has been said a hundred time. CSX doesnt care about anything right now but a turn over rate to keep the seats at its school full. You cant make a profit off a school that has empty seats. The government grants are just to tempting as well. You think its bad now, wont be long before everything you fail will be considered major. Used to be that when an employee had his/her first missed call they would meet with the supervisor and be counseled the first time. Now its an automatic charge letter. Wasted money and investigation time. You wont be able to breath without some kind of charge brought against you if they dont think you are doing it right. Get ready! The hatchet man is coming your way!

Name: Dave Joe E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 1-10 years Posted: 14 January 2013 Came from the UPRR over to Amtrak and now working over CSX territory. What a sad shape CSX is compared to the UP. The UP is 85% paperless and allows for the use of laptops/pda's/tablets for GCOR rules ans SSI's. You also don't waste paper on silly EC-1's to cancel bulletins, get authority past a Stop signal, etc. The UP is bad, but the CSX really is in the dark ages. BTW, what's up with the misalinged signal heads and crappy switches? The UP has several Subdivisions using LED signals that you can see 2 miles down the straight away in bright daylight.

Name: NoMo E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 13 January 2013 Hey Loco 1-10: Since you didn't define what you meant by cheap I think we're on different pages. CSX wastes more money on printer paper, printing, recrews, cab fares, hotels and meals than is imaginable; not to mention personnel costs, training and investigations. If you're talking repair and replacement of equipment, road and bridge maintenance and other capital costs, I agree. Seems management has their priorities backwards. Reckoning day has been approaching like a thundering herd of turtles for some time now!

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 13 January 2013 CSX and rail stocks have peaked: The railroads have had remarkable run the last 10 years and that run is over. It's becoming harder and harder to justify 30% revenue growth without track expansion. In other words, carriers shipping rates have peaked. When that happens; robber barons tend to raid the coffers at the expense of agreement employees and needed infrastructure improvements. John Snow is a perfect example; he got a majority of his earnings from the proceeds of selling CSX assets (land). Snow's salary had jump ten times than the average robber baron. The ploy was later discovered in SEC filings and all the other robber barons raided the corporate coffers with a stroke of the pen by company directors. (Google it!) The average robber baron does not understand the basic operations of the railroad. Think about that when 5 crews are waiting to be picked-up after hours of service limits; waiting for one contract driver. The (5) crews are paid at least $500 an hour; the contract driver's company is paid $50 an hour and yet the carrier believes that fewer drivers will keep the cost down even though these events happens daily. Has anyone ever saw a rail ceo in business roundtable forum? See Forbes for insider transactions...

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 1-10 years Posted: 13 January 2013 Nomo: I hear what you are saying. Although I agree that the dividend is critical when it comes to shareholders, I'm sorry, but CSX has always been cheap. Probably the cheapest of all Class 1 railroads.

Name: NoMo E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 13 January 2013 Hey Loco 1-10: The main reason CSX is so cheap is because they HAVE to maintain and pay the next quarterly dividend. If they don't, it's a clear signal to Wall St. that the CSX ship is sinking. In this case, the Captain and Officers would be thrown overboard. If you pay a dividend, you better be able to maintain it...in business, that's a mortal sin if you can't!

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 1-10 years Posted: 13 January 2013 CSX is cheap....that is for sure.

Name: NoMo E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 12 January 2013 Hey Other: It seems CSX doesn't upgrade anything unless they can save on labor costs. Also why spend you money when they can wait for the next omnibus transportation bill to pass and use taxpayers money!

Name: NoMo E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 12 January 2013 Hey Loco 1-10: I'm old school...the only numbers that matter are EPS (earnings per share) and PE ratio (price/earning ratio), everything else is bull shit. Created buy a bunch of MBA analysts to justify their huge salaries. About '85 all these fancy ratios became popular and over the following decade BoDs began basing executive compensation, bonuses and stock options on bottom line performance due to stockholders activism. It soon became apparent that executive compensation stagnated and in some cases contracted because the companies failed to perform. The Boards then started implementing triggers for bonuses etc., based on these fancy ratios. In most cases there may be 10 triggers and if any 3 or 4 are attained will trigger the "bonuses"...regardless of bottom line performance. The triggers are easily manipulated, which is why you have seen compensation increase despite dismal results. I suggest you get out the CSX proxy Statement and read the section on compensation, then re-read and read it again. Odds are you won't understand it, which is what they want, but you'll get the idea. Now for Wall St., keep in mind that Wall St. doesn't care if you make money or lose money. They make money if you gain or lose! They have become promoters...their job is to keep interest high in the stocks they make a market in. EPS and P/E ratio are to simple and easy to understand even for the novice investor. So they complicate it with all this other bullshit and cause the stock price to be bid up. This is good for those that have stock options that they exercise and make millions on. So, my point is that management is far more concerned about performing to these ratios than making decisions that may, further down the road, be better for the financial health of the company. Much like the SSA, sacrifice long term stability and growth for a shot at instant gratification. As far as the coal business goes...that is fully CSXs fault. This has been in the works for years, which gave Ward and his boys ample time to diversify the revenue portfolio, they didn't. Ward et al are paid handsomely to see and react accordingly to the changing economy. They failed because they were too busy playing for the ratios...then to boot, they have Frulla running the "Coal" division pissing off the very people he should be bending over backwards for. Just poor management. The most recent P/E ratio is 11.45 which in my opinion is a "buy" if I were in the market. The EPS is a $1.79 which is so so. There are only two ways to go, up or bankrupt! Which way do you think it'll go? Your homework tonight is to read the chapters in the Proxy Statement dealing with executive compensation including salaries, bonuses, LTIP and stock options.If you can understand it after one reading, you're a genius and are in the wrong line of work!

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 12 January 2013 NOMO You seem to be a man of research... Do alittle digging and you will find that csx has failed to upgrade its equipment and abilities at its port for the coal business. Heard that the NS upgraded to high tech conveyor belts and does business with neighboring companies right over csx's heads. CSX still does coal movement the old fashioned way with loaders and shabby equipment. Sure if you do enough checking you will find out why the coal isnt getting moved!

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 1-10 years Posted: 12 January 2013 Nomo: I hear what you are saying but I don't exactly blame Wall St. for whats going on with CSX stock right now. In my opinion CSX screwed up, but with good intentions meant for there shareholders. They did that stock split at the wrong time, come on, I didn't see the market falling again myself while I'm still holding the bag on stocks. Another thing to look at is coal! CSX has always been a coal railroad with nice revenue, yet Obama has changed the landscape. CSX might be able to survive without a takeover, but you can bet that we will see some big changes as a result. Maybe some changing of the guards because freight and trailers won't make up for coal. Crude oil and iron ore will help if they have big shipments, but either way the stock pps must rise again or shareholders will speak in a loud manner. You can say no takeover that nobody will allow it, just like everyone keeps saying that the STB will never let it happen. Still in the end its money that talks, and funny things happen that you never expect. Some people in higher places have more pull and more influence than others.

Name: NoMo E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 11 January 2013 Hey Loco 1-10: The price might seem attractive; however I seem to remember the BoD proposing an amendment to the Articles of Incorporation and the shareholders approving it several years ago. The amendment makes a hostile takeover so expensive that it's virtually impossible. In the vernacular, it's know as a "poison pill". These were popular because they assured the senior management of the target company remained in a relatively similar position or got a huge payout in addition to their severance package. I haven't looked but I doubt either the UP or BNSF has the wherewithal to do a deal now or for the foreseeable future. I said it 5 years ago and I'll repeat it. There is a lot of value in the CSX system and the franchise for an astute businessman and investor group. Rather the merging, I see it working in reverse; CSX going private. I'm afraid Wall Street's greed has spilled over into the Board Rooms and forced companies, CSX included, to make bad decisions over the last three or four years and it has come home to roost. I have to laugh...CSX claimed to be a paperless RR when I left, yet they wasted millions on printer paper so they could print Dispatcher's Bulletins every day for jobs that hadn't existed in years. Unnecessary re-crews, cab fares, hotel and meal expenses are probably $250 million a year. Now here's something that makes absolute sense, saves millions in paper and printing costs, lost days due to back problems and countless gallons of fuel...and if it's good enough for the airlines, it's good enough for the rails... http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/05/business/05pilots.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0. Until CSX get the current group of yahoos out and gets people in that know how to run a railroad, it will languish in mediocrity!

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 1-10 years Posted: 11 January 2013 CSX stock pps is priced poised for takeover....Let it drop and bring on a real railroad! Germany and the Nazi regime failed to conquer the world. CSXT and its Nazi regime will fail as well.

Name: BaBa Booey E-mail: Employed as: Train Master/ supervisor, for Less than 1 year Posted: 10 January 2013 Raymond James Cuts CSX to Market Perform Shares of CSX opened at 20.54 on Thursday. CSX has a 52 week low of $18.88 and a 52 week high of $23.71. The stock's 50-day moving average is currently $19.94. The company has a market cap of $21.184 billion and a P/E ratio of 11.45. CSX last posted its quarterly earnings results on Tuesday, October 16th. More of the same for 2013 or worse.

Name: NoMo E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 10 January 2013 Hey Other: Please favor us by citing your reference that makes you make the statement..."The average accumulated wealth for a railroad CEO from the major carriers is at least 2 times more than Exxon and GE CEO'S".

Name: E-mail: stopcorporategreed.org Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 10 January 2013 Just a thought: The average accumulated wealth for a railroad CEO from the major carriers is at least 2 times more than Exxon and GE CEO'S. Both companies (Exxon & GE) have at least 10 times the revenue of the largest (UP) railroad.

Name: NoMo E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 08 January 2013 Hey Spongebob, Sad Subdivision or anyone else that might know. How do the railroads determine their tariffs? I know they have to be approved by the Surface Transportation Board but are they based on mileage, weight, commodity, car type or combination? We use to get gondolas loaded with scrap and covered hoppers that were seriously overloaded. The only yard I ever worked with a scales was Goulding in Pensacola and I don't think they were ever used. If mileage is a factor, there are places on the system that have inaccurate mile posts...in fact I've seen mile posts within 100 yards of each other. Are the rates with the shipper negotiated separately? I would routinely place and pull 35-40 Tanks from Chevron 5 days a week when I worked the Bayou. When I worked Theodore there was a customer that may have got switched out every couple of weeks, 2 maybe 3 cars. That same customer had a car lost for a week or 10 days. No one in CS could find it. I finally asked the YM...the car was sitting in the Interchange less than 50' from Sibert. The Utilities and other captive shippers have and continue to complain about the rates the carriers charge them. They seem to be able to charge what ever the want because there is no competition and when you factor in the inconsistent and even shitty service they get, it would seem to be a business plan doomed to failure!

Name: Company greed E-mail: Employed as: Train Master/ supervisor, for 10-20 years Posted: 08 January 2013 Attention ......band 7 and above will be getting there bonuses..Still unsure about anyone below band 7....SCREWED AGAIN...

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 07 January 2013 Sad Subdivision, You're living in a fantasy world. Good luck with getting another shipper to ship your products. Keep us posted on how things go for your business.----------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------- Not to Bicker, just take a few minutes of your time and check out how the RR Freight business works. As a locomotive engineer (as you state), you may operate over your home road (CSX) leased property, private property, or government property. All of the crew's that I know, do not care who own's the track. If for some strange reason you believe that (In your territory) All track is CSX owned, and the shippers are all CSX customers you wrong. Simply picking up at the origin means absolutely nothing. You or I could be the shipper.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for Less than 1 year Posted: 05 January 2013 Jack knows it all!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!. He thinks.

Name: Spongebob E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years Posted: 05 January 2013 Sad Subdivision, You're living in a fantasy world. Good luck with getting another shipper to ship your products. Keep us posted on how things go for your business.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Friend or family of employee, for 10-20 years Posted: 04 January 2013 I never read of company officials going to prison or jail how come the union guys get caught????? http://www.buffalonews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20121129/CITYANDREGION/121129173/1010

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 04 January 2013 Name: Spongebob Spongebob. Just a little info for you. My comments are in () Note any industry that own's or does not own the track has the right to ship as they please. As an example, those that can only operate by rail (heavy, bulky) can send the business out for bids, asking for anyone to ship and receive in a certain manner based on their needs. Now what you may not understand is the RR handling this freight (at a price point), might be the BNSF or UP or who knows. You as a CSX employee pick it up or set it out by agreement between 2 shippers (CSX/UP). At the end of the deal might/ could be a company that is shipping UP, and you end up being a part of that. In very simple terms the business goes to the best contract. E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years Posted: 31 December 2012 Sad Subdivision, I don't like what Bob Frula says any more than you do, but, he is correct the customer will adapt to poor service by CSX, what other alternative does the customer have? CSX owns the track and equipment going into their industry,(MAY OR MAY NOT BE TRUE) it's not like a different railroad can just come in and take the business, and the customer can't afford to truck it.( CUSTOMER CAN SHIP ANY WAY THEY LIKE) I don't work on the the Huntington Sub, but the sub I work on has the same mentality towards the customer. The thing is, there is a lot of cutback engineer's and furloughed conductor's at my terminal and CSX will not recall anyone.( THAT IS A BUSINESS DECISION) There are train's backed up everyday, locals getting annulled, yard jobs getting layed in every day. And this company says "it starts with the customer" what a joke.

Name: E-mail: freepress.info Employed as: Friend or family of employee, for N/A Posted: 03 January 2013 Good Day Rails: 2013 is the year of containing corporate greed! Why is it that every Tom Dick and Sue; that's in senior management, making $$millions and millions of dollars at our peril? It seems like the only thing they're good at is lobbying our elected officials and bribing union officers with "Safety Captain" positions to contain dissent! Went to yahoo finance and symboled the rail companies. Every major carrier's CEO has accumulated at least $100,000,000.00 in earnings (insider transaction). Think about that when you can't layoff for your daughter's graduation.

Name: Roger E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years Posted: 03 January 2013 Nomo!!!!!!!!! Its so good to see you back on this site. The awards are awesome, and I agree with the post below. There needs to be a catagory for the most cut throat and back stabbing managers. Danny Jerrell stepped on a lot of bodies to rise to his current position. (Its amazing how driven a person can be when they have short man's syndrome, and want to move up in life.) Great awards, once again Nomo. You Rock.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 1-10 years Posted: 02 January 2013 Response to the post on dec 31, 2012. Enjoyed the listing of the ACADEMY AWARDS. What would the railroad do without these FINE UPSTANDING,INCORRUPTIBLE EMPLOYEES. I agree that Laura Touchstone made the top oscar,she seems to know everyone.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Employed in other capacity, for N/A Posted: 01 January 2013 NOMO CONGRADULATIONS MY MAN! Looks like you have done it again. Nice awards! Like the new catagory additions as well. You might have to add another one next year for the manager who stabbed the most supevisors in the back. Think Jerrell would have won that one hands down. YEAP, just the kind of right hand man the big bad wolf was looking for!

Name: Jack E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 20-30 years Posted: 01 January 2013 Brendon, Would you please keep us posted as to where and when you'll be hosting your events? If your in my area, my spouse and I would be interested in hearing what you have to say. Also have you thought about attending some of the functions the unions put on? A friend of mine on the Great Lakes Division told me the unions got together and hosted a eat, meet, and greet back in November. There were legal firms, railroad retirement board, job insurance representatives.... you get the picture. You might want to look at attending an event like that while you're at it. I know I'm not the only one getting close to retirement, and these last few years, if I can make positive adjustments to my retirement plan, I'm all ears. Thanks

Name: NoMo E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 01 January 2013 I love it when someone makes a comment about huggin' nuts. Especially when they have less than a year's seniority. Dude, find a big set of brass ones and hang on tight, you'll need them. Oh by the way, what is it you want to be besides a worm at the bottom of the seniority roster? If I didn't know better, I'd say you have plans on moving up. Being a pimp or a smart ass isn't how you want to do it...capish!

Name: E-mail: Employed as: APE, for Less than 1 year Posted: 01 January 2013 Looks like Abe has a Nut-hugger on this site. He can only wish he could sniff Abe's Jock Strap, it must really suck to go thru life wanting to be something you can never be.......

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 01 January 2013 It's 2013. And csx still sucks

Name: Wolfgang E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years Posted: 01 January 2013 Congratulations go out to King James for your recent win. You represent the way our small terminal is managed oh so very well on this site. Maybe because you're such a good boy, Boss will let you shine his shoes while you're doing his job, and under his desk. Or at the very least give you a few more safety and red block days this month, to pad your pay check even further. Good luck King James. Maybe you can ride this train master's coat tails better than you have all of the other train masters that have come and gone, and passed you by combined.

Name: NoMo E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 31 December 2012 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJMVj04lfyo Good evening Brothers and Sisters, welcome to the 2012 NoMos. We’re coming to you this evening from the Hang A. Wang Loaf Emporium and Hall of Shame in the old porcelain factory on the corner of Crapp and Mudd Streets in beautiful downtown Schitzville. Today being the last day of 2012; what more appropriate day to announce the winner of the 7th annual NoMo “Brown Banana” award. This prestigious award will be given annually to the Biggest Piece of Shit on the CSX. In 2007 I expanded my awards to recognize all those, whose efforts to make CSX a miserable place to work, have paid off handsomely....aren’t they doing a fine job? These include the Saucerhead Award for the first runner up, The Eunuch Award for the manager that knows better but is too scared to speak up and the Clarabelle Award for the biggest clown. Last year I added several more awards, the Plantain, for former management types that couldn’t cut it and fell back on their seniority and the Peckerdillo Award for the worse morals in the system. This year, I am excited to announce the continued expansion of the awards with the addition of the Golden Receiver Award for the boss that goes above and beyond to accommodate the men and women of CSX and make working fun again. Finally, I have added the Lifetime Achievement Award for the one manager that through their tireless efforts throughout their career has made CSX what it is today. In order to qualify for the “Brown Banana”, you must be in management, be nominated and awarded the coveted NoMo P.O.S. (Piece of Shit) Award. This award is presented to individuals and departments which, through their selfless acts of stupidity and incompetence, have created a hostile and unpleasant working atmosphere. It should be noted that the “Brown Banana” is like an Oscar or Heisman Trophy…to win this you have to be at the top of your game. However,unlike the Oscar or Heisman the winner must be hated by his employeesand despised by his peers. I, along with my College of Conductors, Jack Daniels, J.W. Dant, Evan Williams, Jim Beam, George Dickel, Johnny Walker and because I believe in diversity, Remy Martin have recently concluded the annual Banana Conclave in a smoke filled room reviewing the last year’s posts and running the numbers. This year’s winner came out of nowhere to win going away. At Thanksgiving he didn’t stand a chance but his adoring charges came to the rescue to push him over the Fecal cliff. The new Pope of Poop is decided. The smokestack is lit so breathe deeply, it’s the good stuff. Now a word from our sponsors that make all this possible… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sb8mk2HSJUc Before I get started, some interesting facts. Laura Touchstone again received TMTC (too many to count) votes. Joe Berry made the list for the seventh year. Cindy Sanborn, a former “Banana” recipient received 4 votes. Jeff Hensley gathered 3 votes. Justin Reeves, Keith Clark, Jamaar Bennington and Jack Verling garnered 2 each. Honorable mention consisted of 24 with 1 vote each. Will one of these “floaters” step up next year to take the big prize? Oh, so many deserving candidates and only one “Banana”, who will bring home the “Brown” So without further ado…the envelopes please. In the team category: The 5th draft pick…………………Human Resources. The 4th draft pick………………Queensgate Car shop. Tom Grace and Matt Triddico were specifically mentioned. The 3rd draft pick………………CMC. The 2nd draft pick………………Huntington Division. The 1st draft pick………………Great Lakes Division. Not much change...can’t make a silk purse from a sow’s ear! In the individual categories: The Plantain (for non or former management types, they don’t qualify for the “Banana”)……King James. To help introduce the winner of this year’s Peckerdillo Award, please welcome straight from Vaudeville, Butterbean and Susie… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qI5IEYPb_fI Peckerdillo (for the second straight year)………Laura Touchstone (her only problem is between her toes, her big toes) The Clarabelle Award…………Joe Berry……he lost the Div. RFE job and… The Eunuch Award……………to Danny Jerrell The Saucerhead Award…………Scott Conner (that’s two in a row). Now, for the first of the new awards; the Golden Receiver Award that is being presented to the boss that that goes above and beyond the call of duty to make life a little more bearable on their charges, a real team player. They’re not afraid to step up and help out or take a hit for the team. To help introduce this first time award put your hands together for Humble Pie... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWjiyRFtJlY Please give it up for the winner Of the Golden Receiver Award, Laura Touchstone. The second new award is the Lifetime Achievement award and is presented to the Boss whose career has been dedicated to making CSX what it is, or isn’t today. When I started at CSX it was an employee friendly, family oriented operation that was managed by real railroad men with calluses on the hands and bad knees and hips. Not men with manicured nails and styled hair. Cars got switched and freight got moved. There is but one logical choice for this award…he has lorded over the demise of this once great railroad. The railroad of the L&N, B&O and C&O the railroads of legend. He has taken the fun out of the job and instead of looking forward to going to work, the employees look forward to quitting time. Enough said…queue the band… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8tiqy9gdT1k and the winner of the Lifetime Achievement Award is none other than…Michael J. Ward. Alright, now for the main event, may I have a drum roll…TaDa…Bob “Potato Head” Frulla…come on down you are the winner of the 7th annual NoMo “Brown Banana”. It should be pointed out that for the first time in “Banana” history, someone has won the “Banana” two times………way to go. Bob, you've hit to the big time...enjoy it while you can, I think your success will be short lived. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_r9AnvHLjk Along with this prestigious award, you will be enshrined in the NoMo Hall of Shame. Your award will be delivered to the Hall of Shame via UPS along with a life-sized toilet paper stuffed effigy of you suitable for bayoneting, garroting, target practice or incineration. Now, a brief message from our sponsors… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1G4CeynFwU The rest of you wannabes…just keep up the good work and maybe next year you can join Bob, Pete, Bob, Cindy, Tom, Dave and Tony at the Hall with your very own “Brown Banana”. See what Brown can do for you! I want to thank Atom Smasher, CSXsucks.com and all the great and not so great people at CSX that make this all possible, keep up the pretty work… Happy New Year and give ‘em hell… Play me off Neil and Toby… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=we6DEzE51Uo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDQANmQO2g0

Name: Spongebob E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years Posted: 31 December 2012 Sad Subdivision, I don't like what Bob Frula says any more than you do, but, he is correct the customer will adapt to poor service by CSX, what other alternative does the customer have? CSX owns the track and equipment going into their industry, it's not like a different railroad can just come in and take the business, and the customer can't afford to truck it. I don't work on the the Huntington Sub, but the sub I work on has the same mentality towards the customer. The thing is, there is a lot of cutback engineer's and furloughed conductor's at my terminal and CSX will not recall anyone. There are train's backed up everyday, locals getting annulled, yard jobs getting layed in every day. And this company says "it starts with the customer" what a joke.

Name: Sad division E-mail: Employed as: CSX Customer, for N/A Posted: 31 December 2012 Myself and other CSX customers "WILL NOT ADAPT" to BOB FRULLA's statement "THAT THE CUSTOMER WILL ADAPT" our business WILL GO ELSEWHERE !!!!! That is a fact BOB!!!!!!!!!!!' Good luck Huntington Division

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 31 December 2012 JOHN.... YEAH JOHN! YOU GO MAN! YOU ARE MY HERO! YOU COULDNT HAVE SAID IT BETTER! AND AS FOR YARDMASTERS, GOT A FEW WHO HAVE ORDERED CREWS TO BREAK RULES WHICH EVEN A TM DOESNT HAVE THE RIGHT TO DO! WHERE THEY GET OFF EVEN THINKING THEY HAVE THE RIGHT TO DO THAT IS BEYOND ME. EVERYBODY NEEDS TO STAND THEIR GROUND AND INSIST ON TALKING TO A TM EVERYTIME THEY PULL THIS SHIT. IM AGREEING WITH ALL THE OTHER POSTERS OUT THAT HAVE SAID THEY NEED TO BE KICKED TO THE CURB BY THE UNIONS AND MADE TO GO PLAY WITH THE BIG DOGS AND NOT HAVE AN LC'S SKIRT TO GO HIDE UNDER. THEY WANT THE BIG HAT LET THEM GET ON THE REAL MANAGEMENT TEAM! GO SWIM WITH THE SHARKS!

Name: NoMo E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 30 December 2012 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxGu6qnD1Uk

Name: john E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 30 December 2012 Nomo I'd like to nominate all of the upper management from the Great Lakes Division for the Brown Banana Award. There is nothing Great about our management. Scott Connor's is a manager in Tony Ingram and David Brown's image. His right hand man, Danny Jerrels isn't anything to brag about either. I can understand why being short, fat, and unattractive to women would give Danny a case of small man's syndrome, but it still doesn't explain why Danny has ordered his Road Foreman to harass and download every engineer, every 6 months. I wish I could start listing all of the "Great" things about the train masters on the Great Lakes Division, like Brock Summers, Salesman, Justice, Cooper, Jarmaar Benington...... but I don't have all day to expand upon their few and far in between "qualities". Next year when you accept your nominations for who is largest piece of crap out here, would you consider creating a category for yard masters that think they are "the first line of management", like King James or yard MASTER Marvin? Maybe if yard masters understood that they are fellow contract employees, and not the first line of management as the train masters tell them, they'd work with us, verses against us. Thanks

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for Less than 1 year Posted: 30 December 2012 Hire get check from gov and when no one looking furlough or fire there ass Love csx management

Name: NoMo E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 29 December 2012 Alright...get those nominations in. The count down begins at 0000 tonight, then the "Banana Conclave" convenes and its all over but the gnashin' of the teeth. Who will it be the recipient of the Seventh Annual NoMo "Brown Banana". Will it be new name or an old friend and who will be floating to the top as an up and comer? Tune in for the spectacular presentation of the NoMos at 2100 on December 31.There will be big name entrainment and our sponsors will have some pretty good ads.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 28 December 2012 CSX Puts way too many cars Per train. I was stuck at a station for 2hours because the train got stuck from too many cars! They needed to bring in another train just to push the CSX up the VERY small hill. Also they need to protect the cars. my son was reading the Grafitti and and several times i needed to cover his eves before he could say anything 'Wrong'

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 30+ years Posted: 24 December 2012 Please I onley have a little time left. Please fire Bob Frulla! He is against all that Mike Ward wants for this company. He destroys employee marale and runs off customers! How does he keep his job? Who does he know? We need change! Anyone will be better than this clown!

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years Posted: 24 December 2012 I have a great idea a well. Lets hire some more yellow hat conductors for trainmaster positions so that they can screw the place up some more. These idiots have no idea what they are doing! They do not understand the contract. They order crew callers who know better to call jobs wrong and in some cases let other managers in the same rank run there yard/road/terminal. What a bunch of first class winners here at CSX!

Name: E-mail: Employed as: CSX Customer, for N/A Posted: 24 December 2012 I hope everyone at csx has a miserable fucking Christmas I hate you all may you all derail f.u.mickey f.u. Union Happy new year !

Name: The Grinch E-mail: Employed as: Corporate office, for 30+ years Posted: 24 December 2012 Merry Freaking Christmas all you CSX Flockers. I know you are looking forward to the end of the year Bone US and lots of time off work on the Holidays. Maybe you will get your wish and get fired soon because it is that time of the year.

Name: WTF E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years Posted: 22 December 2012 I agree, The Huntington Division is a real bad place to work, low employee morale, crappy attitudes, and employees who dont give a shit about the company. When i first started at CSX T&E employees took pride in getting a train from point A to point B and making money for the company we work for NOW the crew gets on a train and doesn't care if they turn a wheel in 12 hours as along as they can get on and off the engine without getting charged with something or even fired.You sucked at football at Virginia Tech and suck even more as a GM on the Hutington Division I wish the company would give you a promotion/demotion the company is famous for. PS the NFL called and said you wouldn't make a pimple on a real football players ass.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Corporate office, for Less than 1 year Posted: 21 December 2012 Keep Hiring and Firing maybe something will work out Operations, Technology Leaders Appointed to New Roles JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - Dec. 19, 2012 - CSX today announced the following organization appointments effective January 1, 2013. Gary Bethel, currently vice president-Mechanical, has been named vice president-Northern Region, succeeding Craig King, who is retiring. He will report to Cindy Sanborn, vice president and chief transportation officer. He holds a bachelor's degree in business administration from Ohio University. Frank Lonegro, currently president of CSX Technology, will succeed Bethel as vice president-Mechanical, reporting to Oscar Munoz, executive vice president and chief operating officer. Lonegro will continue to have responsibility for CSX's implementation of the industry-wide Positive Train Control initiative. He holds a bachelor's degree in political science from Duke University, as well as a law degree and a master's in business administration, both from the University of Florida. Kathleen Brandt, who currently leads the integration of the company's major operating departments and initiatives, will become president of CSX Technology, also reporting to Munoz. She holds a bachelor's degree in computer information systems and a master's in business administration from Jacksonville University. "We continue to build on the strength of our team by putting proven leaders on point for key functions while aggressively developing people for the future," said Munoz. "Gary, Frank and Kathleen represent the best of both of those efforts, and we are delighted to have them in these new roles." About CSX CSX Corporation, based in Jacksonville, Fla., is one of the nation's leading transportation companies, providing rail, intermodal and rail-to-truck transload services. CSX's network spans approximately 21,000 miles, with service to 23 eastern states, the District of Columbia and two Canadian provinces. CSX's network connects more than 240 short line railroads and more than 70 ocean, river, and lake ports. More information about CSX Corporation and its subsidiaries is available at www.csx.com. Like us on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/OfficialCSX) and follow us on Twitter (http://twitter.com/CSX). Contact: Gary Sease 1 (877) TELL-CSX

Name: Shame E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years Posted: 21 December 2012 Can someone tell me why we have trainmen cut back who make 45,000 per year full time but we still employee all the company officers at the redi while attendance is at an all time low? What are they doing down there?

Name: E-mail: Employed as: APE, for N/A Posted: 21 December 2012 General Chairman on the reserve board? No way! The BLET Bylaws requires the GC to devote all of his time to the committee, at a salary paid by the committee members dues collect. If a GC is on the reserve board, the GC is violating the agreement the carrier is also in violation of its agreement. Thought all the corrupt union officers were weeded-out!

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 20-30 years Posted: 20 December 2012 Heard it on the internet. CSX is preparing for longshoremen going on strike. They need to prepare to go on strike after ward tells us what his Cheap Scape Xpress engineer bone us is going to be this year. I forgot we ain't got no nutz to do anything like that.

Name: No one cares E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 20-30 years Posted: 20 December 2012 Huntington division is now the most unhappiest division that CSX has ....Frulla has destroyed it....I would hate to be the person that follows him...It WILL take years to fix what he has done....so let me get this straight ....he does one thing right and screws 10 things wrong..CSX WAY...

Name: Scared E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years Posted: 20 December 2012 Please help!!!!! What is going on with management not wanting a lot of starts? This company is working there crews to death with people are laid off...killing the crews that they have.....transportation dept!!!

Name: E-mail: Employed as: APE, for 10-20 years Posted: 20 December 2012 the Professionalism at russell ky round house really sucks everyone there will cut your head off in a heart beat 75% of the electrical craft 90@ of the gear heads sucks 100% of the office jockeys and unions need new leardership to take back control

Name: NoMo E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 19 December 2012 Hey Rob: So much for ethics, it's just a word. In the end, it's actions that count. CSX's actions speak volumes and belies their written policy they hold so dear!

Name: Rob E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 19 December 2012 Nomo, I read your post below. What CSX is doing should be criminal. Sad thing is, there is no way to warn these unsuspecting veterans before hand. You can only hope the individuals that do the recruiting, tell the truth. But know they won't. Hopefully the veterens will do their research before hand, so they know what they're getting themselves into before its to late, and they're furloughed for good. If you have any suggestions on what can be done, or someone that will listen, and assist us in correcting this matter, I am all ears.

Name: NoMo E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 18 December 2012 Seems that perhaps CSX is running a little low on Uncle Sam's money! http://www.csx.com/index.cfm/working-at-csx/recruiting-calendar/ I can just imagine The Statue of Ward holding the torch proclaiming "Give me your tired, your poor, your returning Vets yearning to breathe free."

Name: NoMo E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 17 December 2012 We had a Reserve Board at Gentilly...I never saw it used but understood that when it was opened, the Senior men could mark up on it and draw 80% plus of their salary. The only stipulation was they had to take the call. Instead of furloughing the bottom feeders, they rewarded the old men by opening the "Reserve Board" thereby keeping those slots open to the young guys. I couldn't tell you the last time a "Reserve Board" opened. The only thing that even approached it was the RCO retention board back in 02/03; whereby the young guys that were RCO qualified got furloughed but with full pay, I think. Good work if you could get it!

Name: E-mail: Employed as: APE, for N/A Posted: 17 December 2012 "Reserve Board?" Ask Jim! I think you have to be in a Hospice House in order to be compensated. Jim knew Mike Walsh very well...

Name: Gayward Flocker E-mail: Employed as: Corporate office, for 30+ years Posted: 17 December 2012 Pine Nutz now you know why I bought my second home and why I need my big BONUS and you lil Flockers get the BONE US Plan or rather BONE U Tax loopholes that mainly benefit the rich By Kay Bell • Bankrate.com Tax form, calculator, and cash Highlights Low-income taxpayers can't afford to take advantage of the zero percent capital gains rate. The tax code lets rich people deduct interest on a second home at taxpayer expense. Income of most private equity fund managers is taxed at lower capital gains rates. A tax loophole isn't illegal. It just seems that the person benefiting from the loophole often is following the letter of the tax law, but not the spirit of the law. Similarly, there are many tax deductions that appear to provide disproportionate tax benefits to a select few. Here are five tax breaks that fall into those categories. Capital gains tax rate The current 15 percent capital gains tax rate for most investors and zero percent rate for lower income taxpayers are part of the much ballyhooed George W. Bush-era tax cuts. The idea behind the lower capital gains tax is that it encourages investment, which helps create new companies that hire more people -- and we're all fat and happy thanks to this tax-subsidized investment chain. Think again. This tax loophole is estimated by the Joint Committee on Taxation to cost the U.S. Treasury nearly $457 billion between 2011 and 2015. Share this story LinkedIn Delicious Reddit Stumbleupon Email story More On Tax Loopholes And Deductions: 8 tax breaks that cost Uncle Sam big money Home sweet homeownership tax breaks Obama's second term: Who wins? Create a news alert for "taxes" And it's a huge reason why the wealthy, such as financier Warren Buffett, are able to pay substantially lower overall tax rates. Buffett's oft-repeated confession that his tax rate is lower than his secretary's sparked the latest political debate on the fairness of low tax rates on investment profits. Ordinary taxpayers pay tax on their earnings at ordinary income tax rates up to 35 percent. The really rich, however, are different from you and me in that they tend to make most of their money via investments instead of standard paychecks -- meaning most of their money is taxed at 15 percent. But what about the wonderful zero tax rate for investors in the 10 percent and 15 percent income tax brackets? Really? Most folks at those tax levels don't have a lot, if any, cash left over to invest after paying their bills. But by giving them the option, members of Congress felt better about voting for a tax break that benefits primarily the rich. Home mortgage interest deduction If you've ever bought a house, one of the first things your real estate agent and mortgage broker probably pointed out was that you get to deduct your home loan's mortgage interest on your taxes. What they didn't tell you was that your deduction is underwritten by the vast majority of homeowners who don't get this tax break. The home mortgage interest deduction is the largest individual taxpayer cost to the U.S. Treasury. Uncle Sam will lose an estimated $464 billion between 2011 and 2015. And that amount is racked up by just the third of American taxpayers who itemize. Even worse, say economists, the tax deduction probably isn't necessary. Most other industrialized nations worldwide don't offer their residents a tax break for buying a house, yet those folks buy homes. And the reality is that no one ever bought, or didn't buy, a house based on the tax law. What the home mortgage interest deduction really does, say economists, is encourage more financially well-off individuals to buy bigger houses. The July 2011 Reason Foundation study, "Unmasking the Mortgage Interest Deduction," found that the annual average tax saving of the mortgage deduction for a taxpayer making $50,000 to $75,000 was $179, and that only about one-third in this group claim the deduction. At the upper income level, however, homeowners with incomes exceeding $200,000 get an annual tax benefit of more than $2,200, and almost three-quarters claim the deduction. The mortgage interest deduction benefits also are geographically disproportionate. Just as high-income taxpayers get more out of it, so do metropolitan areas with high incomes, taxes and housing prices. That historically has tended to be locales in California and the Northeast. So the next time you visit your cousin at his new house in New Jersey, make sure he thanks you for your help with his purchase.

Name: NoMo E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 16 December 2012 Hey Con <1: I'm afraid there's nothing you can do...you rolled the dice and got snake eyes. It's a chance you took. It's still a shitty deal one that has been happening for years. Just be glad you didn't have to pay to go tho "The College of Railroad Knowledge" like thousands did until CSX opened the R.E.D.I. center a few years ago. It's the Government that should be suing CSX...they paid for job training for returning Vets and other civilians. It's amazing how those jobs disappeared the minute CSX got their last Government draw on that batch of trainees. I'm certain there were millions in Government grants when CSX built the R.E.D.I Center. In some regards the "Fiscal Cliff" could be a really good thing! I'll guarantee CSX has a vested interest in not going over the "Cliff" and is lobbying their Republican friends in Congress to do a deal! Lets keep that gravy train rollin'!

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 16 December 2012 APE Good question. I would like to know the answer to that one myself. A general chairman being compensated by the company? Yeah, I would think it would be a big conflict of interest! Like to know what "reserve" status is? Any of you LC's like to comment on that?

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for Less than 1 year Posted: 16 December 2012 I wish I never heard of these fucks csx some of the stories on this site are just sad what there doing to new hires is wrong they need to be sued people give up a lot to be here just to find out its a lie all cutoff new hire need to come together and go to the media how many military new hires are still working ? It a scam job we need to file a class action law suit csx sucks and they need to PAY.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: APE, for N/A Posted: 15 December 2012 TE&Y GENERAL CHAIRMAN on company payroll. My friend tells me that a General Chairman is on the company payroll in "reserve status." Is it illegal for any General Chairman being compensated by the carrier? Maybe a conflict of interest because he negotiates all the local agreements. On another note; FRA officials are usually ex-railroad managers (Road Foreman), covering the same territory where they used to worked. In other words; The Fox is Guarding The Hen House! The FRA and Carriers work hand-n-hand suppressing your safety complaints.

Name: NoMo E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 15 December 2012 What's this I'm hearing...CSX is collecting excess coal cars from around the system and sending to a marshalling yard? That's means the coal business has gone away and CSX doesn't expcct it back anytime soon! Management cut backs? They can't cut enough managers to do any real good. It's been 5 or 6 years now, CSX went through a reorganization. If I remember correctly the management "pyramid" went from 11 layers to 8 layers...it should have been cut to 5 layers, 6 at the absolute most. None of this is encouraging news and doesn't bode well for CSX. That trouble I mentioned in my 12/9 post is just ahead, around that bending hill!

Name: Robert (Mike) Lusher E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 13 December 2012 Several months ago I corresponded with Ohio Senator Sherrod Brown and advised him of the manner in which I was treated by CSX Toledo Terminal managers, and how FRA Region 2 managers refused to take any action or support me in any way. According to a letter I received from Senator Brown, my concerns were forwarded to the Office of Inspector General for the U.S. Department of Transportation. Since then, I have not been notified of any developments. I assume that FRA has massaged away the issue. Federal agencies seem to be very good at massaging away criticism. If FRA Region 2 managers had taken action and supported my enforcement efforts, I would not have retired. It was clear to me that they were only interested in supporting CSX management, so what else could I do but retire. After the Lake Township police intervened for my protection, my supervisor, Daniel Lewis, even told me not to perform any more inspections on the properties that were managed by CSX Toledo Terminal Superintendent Rob Burkett. In the past, there were supervisors and managers in FRA that were supportive of field inspectors. If CSX managers had bullied and stalked a field inspector under their watch, a strong enforcement effort would have been initiated. A little over a decade ago that very scenario took place. The FRA Region 2 administrator at that time (John Megary) called in several inspectors to work with me around the clock at Stanley Yard. It was Conrail at the time, and they did get the message. Compliance improved considerably after our group inspection efforts. That was not the only time or the only place that FRA conducted group enforcement efforts. Over the years, I participated in quite a few of those group efforts myself. It now seems that the railroads are running FRA. I don't know if this stems from ignorance or a lack of ethics on the part of FRA managers. When I hired out at the FRA window, I took an oath to enforce FRA laws, rules and regulations. During my 34 years with FRA I always tried to honor that oath. And, I did not take an oath to insure railroad profits or on-time train departures. From January 1966 until April 1978, minus the two years I spent in the U.S. Military, I worked as Machinist Apprentice and Machinist for The Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Company. Five years at the Huntington Locomotive Shop and five years at the Walbridge Roundhouse. My Granddad and Father were also Machinists at the Huntington Shop. The C&O seemed to treat their employees fairly well back then. Morale was generally very good. However, I was criticized at Walbridge for finding too many defects on locomotives. I fixed what I found though, it just took a while to do so. I was also criticized by one particular foreman for using blue flags. I was the only employee using them at the time because it was not yet a Federal regulation.

Name: chad E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for N/A Posted: 13 December 2012 A few things people, to ATL u really think after doing LBT that u r not also to blame for not having your family now? That gives new meaning to doing the nasty! Man what u had had to be better than that. You people are stupid like Cornwall lost his family too and Barrett hit that nasty shit and his wife is leaving him for it too he's country ass stupid his wife is a model. Wth are yall looking for in the garbage can.

Name: Hot2Trot E-mail: Employed as: APE, for 10-20 years Posted: 13 December 2012 Things will be different after the revolution. "Just because I'm paranoid doesn't mean they're not out to get me."

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for Less than 1 year Posted: 13 December 2012 Mikey ward is the anti-Christ

Name: Gayward Flocker E-mail: Employed as: Corporate office, for 30+ years Posted: 13 December 2012 To All CSX Management Horseshit Humbug !!!!!!!!!! Do not let this get around snuff it out immediately. http://finance.yahoo.com/news/mcdonalds-8-25-man-8-050001809.html I am the Master Mind of this place and it would not work without me tell all CSX Flockers and Union Officials can take a hike. Yours at CSX GayWard Flocker

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years Posted: 13 December 2012 December 13, 2012.....and CSX STILL SUCKS!

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Employed in other capacity, for Less than 1 year Posted: 13 December 2012 mr lusher, Its good to hear from you, was wondering how you been doing with retirement.I know they forced you out when you were not ready to go but know this I also was put on the street because of lies that were told in a hearing , your letter says it all, you are correct about toledo and stanley yards ...WHAT A JOKE . you have left us here to fight goliath on our own but certainly dont blame you for leaving.as the story was told in the good book even goliath can be beatin and thats exactly what I plan to do. I know I am not alone out there and may need your help at some point , hope you are willing.I will be in touch mr.lusher untill then god speed brother and enjoy your retirement and holidays...Im sure you are alot better off now that you dont have to deal with those people anymore. ps for all you people out there that caused all of this... I promise I will fight you till they throw dirt on me ! HOPE YOUR HOLIDAYS SUCK !!!!!!!!

Name: SUPREME ALLIED COMMANDER E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 13 December 2012 Ingram ran on his NS Nazi rep while at CSX more than dish out it like Brownshirt and Sanborn. Ingram straighten out the power on CSX and that helped out alot. He was making them drink the Kool Aid and things were on a hostile work place. Davy Brownshit and his Nazi Brownshirts went crazy when he moved into Tony's slot. It keeps getting crazier and worst as the day goes on so Mikey Ward it rewarding people to do this dumbshit stuff. FIRE WARD AND CLEAN OUT THIS SHIT HOLE HIS MUSTACHE IS GETTING NARROWER AND NARROWER SIMILAR TO A OLD NEMESIS I ONCE HAD.

Name: Jack E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years Posted: 13 December 2012 Mr. Lusher, I am sorry to see that CSX has run off yet ANOTHER decent FRA officer. I am not surprised that the CSX company officials you named, have turned to using the tactics that they have successfully used on their employees, on to others. When Michael Ward CHOSE to bring Tony Ingram and David Brown to CSX, from the NS, and after they "left", CHOSE to keep their protege, Cindy Sanburn..... you knew Michael Ward liked the Management by Fear culture that was created under his leadership. As we all know, by looking at the ever sinking stock price, how well Michael Ward's Management by Fear program is working out for everyone, stock holders included. Thank you for having the courage to step up, stand up, and say what is happening at CSX is WRONG. Hopefully someone some where will read your post and contact you, they will look into what you've written, and help change the Management by Fear culture that Michael Ward has allowed to thrive under his "leadership". With much regret, as I continually hear stories of local chairmen openly and actively seeking company official jobs, I know that today's union will not be the source of change that is needed to eliminate Michael Ward's Management by Fear culture.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 12 December 2012 Should CSX railroad officials follow the tactics and management practices of Massey Coal officials then they can risk the chance of going to prison. Don Blankenship is being investigated by the US Attorney General as his lower managers are giving evidence against him for his disregard for employee safety as 29 miners lost their lives. Mike Ward can get clipped too if he gets people killed as did Blankenship. His Nazi soldiers are known to have done stupid stuff. DOCUMENT AGAINST ANY AND ALL OF THEM CALL OSHA THE FRA IS IN BED WITH CSX

Name: NoMo E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 12 December 2012 Here's the Plan: In the beginning, there was the Plan. And then came the Assumptions. And the Assumptions were without form, And the Plan was without substance. And darkness was upon the face of the Workers. And they spoke among themselves, saying, "It is a crock of shit and it stinketh." And the Workers went into their Supervisors and said, "It is a pail of dung and none may abide the odor thereof." And the Supervisors went unto their Managers, saying, "It is a container of excrement and it is very strong, such that none may abide by it." And the Managers went unto their Directors, saying, "It is a vessel of fertilizer and none may abide it's strength." And the Directors spoke amongst themselves, saying one to another, "It contains that which aids plant growth and it is very strong." And the Directors went unto the Vice President, saying, "It promotes growth and it is very powerful." And the Vice Presidents went unto the President, saying, "This new Plan will actively promote the growth and vigor of the company with powerful effects." And the President looked upon the Plan and saw that it was good. And the Plan became Policy. This is how Shit Happens.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 12 December 2012 Rober Lusher If this isnt a prime example of a need to whistlelow then I dont know what is! It has always been said that the railroads have the fra in their pockets. Your story has just proven that it is true!

Name: NoMo E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 12 December 2012 Mr. Lusher: All I can say is wow. If it were me I would have had the U.S. Marshals in the yard within minutes and Givens and Burkett arrested for menacing a Federal officer. I wish you had also posted this on the safety thread since in the long, this is a public safety issue as well. Perhaps this is the reason so many of these issues don't get resolved, there being short stopped by the very people charged with protecting the public and rail workers. Thank you for your very enlightening post...it's sure to draw a lot of attention on this site, Jacksonville, and inside the beltway. Check back with us, we would welcome your input and insight,Enjoy your retirement!

Name: Robert Lusher E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 12 December 2012 After serving as FRA Railroad Safety Inspector (Motive Power and Equipment) for just over 34 years, I have retired. My decision to retire was made on March 16, 2012, after being bullied and stalked on and outside of railroad property by CSX Transportation Toledo Terminal Superintendent Rob Burkett and CSX Transportation Toledo Terminal Trainmaster Lennon Givens, with FRA Region 2 Administrator Brian Hontz and FRA Region 2 Deputy Administrator Larry Kish refusing to take any kind of action. On the night of March 15, 2012, at the CSX Transportation Stanley Yard, near Toledo, Ohio, CSX Transportation Toledo Terminal Superintendent Rob Burkett and CSX Transportation Toledo Terminal Trainmaster Lennon Givens began following very closely behind my GSA vehicle. It was clear to me that I was being bullied and stalked by those individuals. Because I did not want that harassment to continue, I left the railroad property. However, Burkett and Givens continued to follow me in Burkett's personal vehicle. After I made several turns and drove more than two miles they finally turned away. CSX Mechanical Operations employees at Stanley Yard are very aware of how CSX Transportation managers attempted to intimidate me. I was told that one of those managers was even bragging how the FRA Inspector (me) was run off the property on March 15, 2012. FRA Region 2 Deputy Administrator Larry Kish told me that he would not defend me. During a previous phone conversation, CSX Superintendent Rob Burkett had repeatedly accused me of taking pleasure in delaying his trains. I assured him that it was the FRA non-complying conditions that were delaying his trains, and if those trains had been FRA compliant, they would not have been delayed. On March 28, 2012, at approximately 11 p.m., CSX Transportation Toledo Terminal Trainmaster Lennon Givens again followed me out of the CSX Transportation Stanley Yard. After driving about two miles and making several turns, I entered the Lake Township Police Department parking lot. Givens then pulled to the side of the road and waited for me. Because the Lake Township Police were out on patrol, I called 911 to report that I was being stalked. When officers arrived, I explained how Givens had been stalking me, and also how CSX Transportation Toledo Terminal Superintendent Rob Burkett and Givens had stalked me on the night of March 15, 2012. I then learned that that activity on the part of CSX managers was in no uncertain terms, illegal. I told the police officers that Burkett and Givens have been attempting to intimidate me an effort to shield their FRA non-compliant outbound trains from my inspection and the resultant delays caused by the serious defects that I regularly discover. The police officers then took my statement and asked where they could find Givens. I told them that his office was in the newly constructed CSX Administration Building at Walbridge, Ohio. I also had an eye witness to the stalking and gave the police officers the name of that witness. Then, being extremely upset and nervous, I decided that I should just go home. A police report is available at the Lake Township Police Department, 27975 Cummings Road, Millbury, OH 43447 (419) 838-6651. On March 29, 2012, I sent an e-mail to FRA Region 2 managers and to my AFGE union officials describing what had occurred the night before. FRA Region 2 Deputy Administrator Larry Kish again phoned me to discuss the matter. This time he did not say that he could not defend me, but did not say that he would either. When I was bullied and stalked by CSX Transportation Toledo Terminal Superintendent Rob Burkett and CSX Terminal Trainmaster Lennon Givens on March 15 and 28, 2012, I believe that a Federal crime was committed. On those two days, serious attempts were made to intimidate a federal law enforcement official in the performance of his official duties. FRA Region 2 managers should have immediately contacted the U.S. Marshals, but instead went to CSX Transportation with hat-in-hand. During the last few years, I discovered hundreds of freight cars with ineffective air brakes and other FRA non-complying conditions that were prepared for departure in outbound trains at the CSX Transportation Stanley and Lake Front Yards near Toledo, Ohio. And I documented most of those defects with photographs. Had I not taken exception to those FRA non-complying freight cars, they would have departed without being repaired. I believe that FRA management is beginning to cater to the desires of the railroads. They have not told FRA inspectors to back off, but they have been telling them to alter their inspection procedures. At a recent staff meeting, FRA Region 2 Administrator Brian Hontz told us that we would be operating in a new manner. A further statement from Hontz indicated to me that railroad operational desires will be honored ahead of regulatory enforcement. Prior to my retirement, I was also told that we should do fewer outbound train inspections and more inbound inspections. Railroads love inbound train inspections because they don't cause outbound train delays. However, inbound train inspections do not give a clear picture of how the outbound trains will look after they are classified, inspected and given a class I brake test-initial terminal inspection. Only outbound inspections can verify that all freight cars have effective air brakes, secure safety appliances and components that will not cause enroute derailments. Also, enforcement action can only be taken after the railroad inspections have been completed and the trains are ready to depart. Again, if railroads comply with FRA regulations, they will not experience delayed train departures account of FRA inspections. I was a dedicated Railroad Safety Inspector for 34 years, and never received less than a Meritorious performance rating. In fact, most of my ratings were Distinguished. Also, the accident, complaint, inspection and violation reports I submitted will verify my dedication to railroad safety, and to the oath I took back in 1978. I always treated railroad employees in the manner that I would have wished to be treated. The only railroad employees that were offended were the managers that believed on time train departures were more important than dispatching safe and FRA compliant trains. By not providing proper railroad safety oversight, I believe that FRA may be going down the same road that the Mine Safety and Health Administration did a few years ago. Several coal miners lost their lives due to that lack of oversight. It seems likely that MSHA started catering to the wishes of mine owners rather than the safety of the miners. And it seems to me that FRA is now catering to the wishes of the railroads. Railroads are now operating with fewer employees and expecting the same amount of work from them. One person remote control locomotive assignments are a good example. Those employees are expected to accomplish the same amount of work as was previously done by two or three employees. On several occasions, those employees have told me that in order to accomplish the work assigned to them, they are forced to disregard FRA and railroad safety rules. I have also been told that their managers place a target on their backs if they do try to follow all of the rules and consequently can't finish the work that was assigned to them. And if they get caught breaking a rule, they are usually disciplined and sometimes terminated. From the discussions I have had with engineers and trainmen, work morale is very bad. Yardmasters have also complained to me about how they are treated and talked to by the trainmasters they work for. Unfortunately, those in FRA Headquarters and Regional offices don't seem to realize what really goes on in railroad yards. They seem to believe that the employees are always responsible for injuries and accidents, and that the railroads are doing all they can to prevent those occurrences. Yes, employees are often at fault when injuries and accidents occur, but the pressure railroads place on them for production and the movement of trains is also part of the equation. And, placing profits ahead of expenditures for safety improvements, including equipment and track repairs, also enters into that equation. These problems have existed since the first rails were laid, and is why the FRA Office of Safety exists today. Unfortunately the FRA Office of Safety now seems to be catering to the railroads' desire for production, movement of trains and profits, instead of enforcing safety regulations to protect railroad employees and the general public.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years Posted: 12 December 2012 Nomo, Your right that no prior experience is the reason, yet things won't change for the better until they actually clean house up top. CSX needs to get back to railroading because what they are doing now is a total joke. Years ago they never had this many trainmasters, back then a trainmaster covered miles of territory on his own. They aren't even trainmasters today, just glorified clerks/ weed watchers...pretty sad way to run a business.

Name: NoMo E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 12 December 2012 Hey Corp 20-30, APE 10-20 & Loco 30+: The real problem at CSX stems from the fact that Senior Management doesn't have or never has had any practical RR experience. Additionally, they are so far removed from the line they have no idea what's going on. I'll guarantee if you could get these candied assed, pretty boys on the line for a month or two, things would definitely change... they might learn the difference between shit and shinola!

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years Posted: 12 December 2012 I was fired just two months ago and can say that life is better. I just got a new job making 40,000. Thank you Frulla I am home after 3

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 1-10 years Posted: 12 December 2012 Not onley did they hire at my terminl the had 20 or more cutt of at the beginning of the year with these guys still training. Yes we did complain, but of course our Unio representation all the way up the line gave the excuse of the new contract changed things. Dam shame CSX gives a trainee $1700.00 per half and leaves older people in fourlough status. I hate to be the way I am sounding, but theres onley one place after death for the leadership of this company. Now do not get me wrong I am not trying to judge, but these people especilly Frulla are going to bust Hell wide open. Frulla if you are reading this know it does not matter that you attend church and pray before bed every night. You will be judged how to treatd others and lived life. Not sitting in the church every Sunday and doing your dirty deeds all week.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years Posted: 12 December 2012 LOCO 30+ Heres a company on track? Worried about competitive pressure from CSX!!! You have got to be kidding! We arent getting a bonus because coal shipments are SUPPOSIDLY way down. Where is their competition? Sounds like some NS boys are getting slowly set up for a let down!

Name: former employee E-mail: Employed as: Train Dispatcher, for 10-20 years Posted: 12 December 2012 Never understood why CSX would hire 30 to 40 people at a given terminal while at the same time devising a plan to eliminate 40 to 50 jobs. Definitely professionalism and common courtesy at its best. Also I want to mention my sincere appreciation for the epitomy of arrogance, Mr. Bob Frulla for rejecting me as a train dispatcher. I had a 704 violation early in my career as a dispatcher. Prior to that I never had any trouble or controversy as a trainman. I actually took pride in my employment as an employee. But one infraction under frulla and I became the worst employee ever. The incompotent welder who caused the event....10 days off and right back to work risking other dispatchers their jobs and careers. But hey the epitomy of arrogance, frulla did me an awesome favor. I now work at a different company, the money is better and hey I am not furloughed. I am home every night, sleep in my own bed and work a regular schedule where I can make plans. Folks there is life beyond CSX and the railroad. Try it. Thanks Frulla.....

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 11 December 2012 Here is a company on track! Norfolk Southern Corp. (NSC), one of the leading U.S. railroad companies reported third quarter 2012 earnings of $1.24 per share that surpassed the Zacks Consensus Estimate of by a penny but deteriorated 27% from $1.59 adjusted earnings in the year-ago quarter. The year over year decline was due to lower Coal and General Merchandise carloads resulting from poor economic backdrop. Total operating revenues were down 7% year over year at $2,693 million but came in below the Zacks Consensus Estimate of $2,910 million. On a year-over-year basis, Coal and General Merchandise revenues declined 22% and 1%, respectively while Intermodal revenues grew 3% year over year. In the third quarter, operating income was $731 million, down 22% year over year. Operating expenses inched up 1% year over year to $2 billion resulting in an operating ratio of 72.9%, up 540 basis points. Cash Position Norfolk exited the quarter with cash and cash equivalents of $693 million compared with $276 million at year-end 2011. Cash from operations was $2,476 million compared with $2,764 million in the year-ago quarter. The company repurchased 16.5 million shares worth $1.2 billion in the first nine months of 2012 compared with 23.8 million shares worth $1.6 billion bought back in the comparable year-ago period. Dividend The company’s Board of Directors approved a quarterly cash dividend of 50 cents to shareholders of record on November 2, payable on December 10. Our Analysis We remain encouraged by the company’s commitment to improve its operating results backed by increasing service abilities, railroad safety and network efficiency that led to improve cost and productivity. Further, heavy investments in key projects are also expected to remain accretive to the company’s long-term growth. However, we remain concerned about factors such as the prevailing market condition in the core segment like Coal and uncertainties regarding the present economic environment that would likely affect shipments. Further, tightened railroad regulation and competitive pressure from other leading railroads such as Union Pacific Corporation (UNP) and CSX Corp. (CSX) also remain significant headwinds for the company’s growth.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 1-10 years Posted: 11 December 2012 CSX Corp. (CSX) saw short-selling increase significantly by 42%, or 6.4M shares. The short volume is now at 21.8M shares.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Corporate office, for 20-30 years Posted: 11 December 2012 Here is the deal! I am going to break it down for you guys and you decide to take it for what it is worth. CSX is losing money in almost every area as of recent. The executive branch here in Jacksonville needed to find ways to make more money. The first thing they did was to cash in on Veterans perks as we all know. Next thing was to mass fourlough across the board this time. Not onley is transportation employees feeling the pinch, but so is mechanical, engineering etc. The next thing they are doing that as far as I know is still in the air is cuttimg Jamboree and other related cost. Now your systym will suffer when it does pick up. CSX has decided and I know for certain that sometime within the first qaurter 2013 the company will trim its Managers down to a more fitting size. Now I am not sure what managers, but I do know its a buble of cash. Watch for big annoucments to come in 2013 from CSX trying to hang in there to boost stock. You may want to stay tuned. Great things are ahead.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: APE, for 1-10 years Posted: 09 December 2012 NoMo hit the big hammer on the spike on gayward s trickle down bonus plan. Forget any union putting up a fight for their members this has been all worked out on the golf course or under the table. Illegal Collusion and misrepresentation of the union members well being in favor for a corrupt union official. All of the lower Flockers get the left overs from the Big Buzzards Flockers in the Jackassville Tower. Maybe under-maintaining the system or taking too many shortcuts will cause a BIG disaster and do lots of damage to the public then lawsuits will make some changes to the Big Chicken Coop Management in addition to government repercussions. Gayward could then lose his Nazi School in atlanta and all the free government training credits will be gone. I wonder if Cindi's performance is lower than Brownshirt s numbers. Gayward could shit can her then move another Buzzard or Turkey up to do more crazy ass changes to make it even worst. Simply Amazed

Name: NoMo E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 09 December 2012 Hey Loco 20-30: It's a shitty deal, all because of the SSA. The engineers believed what the Union and CSX wanted them to. Personally I think Ward and the Board have brass to authorize executive bonuses when they won't for the rank and file. Funny thing about bonuses. 95% of the money goes to 5% of the people. If you read the proxy material about executive compensation, you might come to realize it's rigged so the execs can't lose...skimp on maintenance, slow pay claims, write this off but not that...keep those ratios in the money zone and to hell with everything else. Just look at Hostess (bow are heads in a moment of silence) deep fried Twinkies were the best! The management kowtowed the union into pay and benefit cuts while increasing their salaries and bonuses by something like 300% in the last several years; then have the balls to blame the contract workers for their liquidation. Can you see a slight similarity with CSX. Now I'm not saying CSX is in trouble yet but it might just be over the next hill or around the next bend! I have personally been troubled by the direction CSX has gone since Ingram was hired. What's even more troubling to me is the fact that it hasn't seemed to gotten any better since Ingram and Brown have left. Now don't misunderstand, I no longer have a financial stake in CSX so I don't spend a lot of time reading the financials so there's a possibility I might be wrong, but don't bet on it. I don't know where or when CSX will hold their Annual Meeting but those are the places to voice your concerns, The Chairman will have a Q&A session which is the perfect place to pose your questions...especially if you want to see Mike break into a sweat. The union should consider posting some informational pickets outside the meeting hall. I can't say how effective they will be but they will certainly make Ward and the Board uncomfortable!

Name: John Holmes E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 20-30 years Posted: 09 December 2012 Huntington division will be experiencing a huge employee turn over in the next year or so.....Thanks to Bob "Mr Ego" Frulla ....Employees are tired of this monster....

Name: NoMo E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 09 December 2012 Hey RRJ: You out there, I'mmmm Baaack, just thought I'd give you a shout out. How's your sister doing?

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Corporate office, for 20-30 years Posted: 08 December 2012 Cond. 1-10 You say you have 8 years seniority and finished engine school? You also stated that they hired 40 new yellow hats in the last year in your area? If your sitting home cut off then Im assuming that everyone one of those guys they hired after you were furloughed are cut off as well. DOUBLE CHECK and make sure no one junior to you is working anything. Make sure no one is being called in to fill any jobs that are short that have less seniority than you. If you have remote job areas that have junior guys to you and you are not remote qualified you can force them to let you qualify. Make sure no one, absolutley no one junior to you turns a wheel.. You have a claim for every single person who works and you are not called back.

Name: Alex E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 08 December 2012 Hey NoMo, From what I heard CSX just furloughed 7 Conductors in Florence in just the past year. Some heard back long after they found more stable employment. Why keep furloughing conductors when you're constantly running short of crews? Then waste money to hire just to furlough them. At first the money sounded great, but the fear of no money sticks in my mind more. I'll stick with our shortline until we change hands. Now, I could care less if I see another CSX train. This crap has broke me from railfanning CSX.

Name: NoMo E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 08 December 2012 Hey Alex: You pretty much answered your own question. Now here's one for you. Knowing what you now know, besides the money, why would you want to work for CSX and do you still think it would be a positive for your family? If you read the post from the Con with 8 years seniority you shouldn't be surprised. This website is replete with horror stories like that. Over the last 3 or 4 years CSX's hiring practices have hit skids and that revolving door has created it's own weather pattern. Hold what you got and start at the RRB's job board and their links. Good luck, in the long run getting rejected may be the beat think that ever happened to you!

Name: WTF E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years Posted: 08 December 2012 Bob Frulla is the worst thing that ever happened to the Huntington Division, he has destroyed it, they say the power plants are turning to natural gas, that may be true. But why is it you drive by AEP in Louisa KY power plant you see 3 maybe 4 sets of coal cars rusting to the rail but there is 40 or 50 trucks delivering coal daily or AEP's Mitchell power plant in Northern WV that at at the end of the year is done shipping by rail. I know for a fact 3 or 4 years ago they got 2 loaded trains a day with 2 empty trains being pulled daily now none. I'll tell you the problem is Bob Frulla lack of customer service he and his drones are out there doing whatever it takes to slow down the railroad, keep up the good work Frulla and upper mangement becuase our stock, yes ours, will be about 10 dollars a share soon. IDIOTS How about some cutomer service instead of a bunch of EGO minded assholes running the show.

Name: NoMo E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 08 December 2012 Hey Con 1-10: You made a wise decision...it's hard to have stability in your life if there's no stability at work! Have you thought about possibly moving to a location that isn't quite as volatile? After 8 years you would think you would at least be able to hold an Extra Board slot. David Brown got shit canned, in large part because he pissed off the coal shippers. Potato Head was his lead man and it sounds like the primary reason for his demise. Think for a minute if you will about all those that have hired on in the last few years or want to hire on. If it's tough for you to hold a spot, you know they can't. The money and benefits are great but there's more to life and a job than money. There are plenty of short boys and industrial switching operations out there that pay as much as CSX. Check out the job board and links on the RRB site.

Name: Alex E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 08 December 2012 I really have to question CSX's hiring practices. For when a pencil pushing, number crunching, cubical dwelling h.r. guy feels a 20 yr old college grad is more qualified at being a conductor than a 30 yr old with 6 yrs. exp. with a shortline.... Well you're FUBAR! My cousin has worked for Chicken Sqweeze Xpress for 7 yrs. and at $25 hr. I felt it would be a positive change for my family. Gone are the days of going to the yard office and asking if they're hiring. No, you gotta wait until a position comes available in your area. So, after months of checking the "careers page" finally a conductor's position for Florence, SC. Without any hesitation I submitted my application. I check my email Monday afternoon and low and behold my CSX REJECTION LETTER! Surprised? No, just typical my luck with CSX. This is my hypothesis for landing a job with CSX 1: must have a college degree. 2: must have good credit. 3: must not have worked for a shortline. 4: must not be a railfan 5: helps to be a woman, minority, or a veteran. If you meet this criteria congrats. you'll have a interview. Don't get me wrong I'm all for hiring veterans, but when you pass up a person who has prior experience just because you have to meet a certain demographic quota..... Then I say screw CSX that's no company I want a part of. So, I'll wait until new ownership takes over our railroad and I can hop back in saddle again. It's no wonder why NS out performs CSX at every turn. They have a railfan at the helm.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 07 December 2012 I have been with the company for eight years next month. I finished engineer training just this past year on the Huntington. I am in your shoes brother. Im sitting at home cutt off for the past three months and no sir this is not my first time around the block with these greedy bastards. I came in the picture in Janurary 2006. I was laid off Sept 2006 thru Jan 2008. I was once again bounced around from active to deactive staus all of year 2009 and first qaurter of 2010. Once again here I sit eight years senority with about ten ahead of me in line. I can not get thru my thick skull why they recently hired around 40 employees this past year at my terminal. There is a little saying going around the Huntington that some coal loaders met with Frulla about not getting the trains they needed and his response was injurys are down and n other words this not getting trains loaded was a ( good thing ). I do not think it takes a Harvard, Yale or WV grad to have the common sense that if you do not run trains you do not have injurys and CSX will soon see this means less cash as well. The way I figure with all the layoffs they are being able to ofset this somewhat. I can not wait til the management starts getting there cut backs. Maby just maby Mr Bob Frulls will be gone once they start selling off there divisions to the NS to show big profits. You blame Mike Ward my friend for the layoffs, but understand I persnally think that Bobble head had more to do with this than anyone. For me I have decided I am not returning. I am going to suck it up and get a job wherever I can find one and get some education, career training etc. Enough is enough. Eight years people and still dealing with this shit. No offense to the old heads I have major respect for you, but please do not thats part of this job. How many of you can say you dealt with this eight to ten years into your career? May god bless each and everyone of you and have a Merry Christmas!

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 07 December 2012 Because of csx scam job with new hires me & my family are going to have a horrible Christmas thanks Mickey ward you fucking grinch

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 07 December 2012 I think he meant do say...my mom sucks and dad likes it and thinks it rocks!

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Brakeman, for 20-30 years Posted: 07 December 2012 Rob I believe you have hit a sensitive area. I see another company poster had arrived to try and deflect your recent conversations. The posters like "I love csx" will just have to learn that only works on the fools, or the other imposters who start fights with "it" to make us think they have been swayed.....TISK..TISK Oh, as to the other posters rumor he heard, I believe he is talking about cars that have been placed in storage tracks outside of the yard and are delivered the next day or when the customers request them. I think most of them dont go by another scanner after they hit the storage tracks. They can be suffled for days without anyone knowing unless the customer calls and ask where their cars are. Am I not correct? It would be real interesting to see how they would handle the situation if they were to go back the next day to deliver that car they already showed delivered and found its contents spilled all over the ground or turn it over when they were getting it out of the storage track! OOOHHHH...that would burn!

Name: ilovecsx E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 07 December 2012 csx does NOT suck my mom thinks it rocks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! my dad likes csx!

Name: Kloostra E-mail: Employed as: Yard Master, for 10-20 years Posted: 06 December 2012 Bummer we can not upload pictures. I love my job at CSX Rail Road in Grand Rapids. Go to Google Images and put in Patrick Kloostra. The first picture that pops up will be me enjoying my ride on a CSX locomotive.I have the best job in the world. I got promoted because of this picture. CSX, Where every ride is a joy ride!

Name: Rob E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 05 December 2012 Let me attempt to answer your question. ? Every car is equipped with scan code bar. If that car moves past a scanner, CSX knows where it is... providing the bar hasn't fallen off. The scan bar is grey, about a 10.5inches long, and 3.5 inches wide. You know the how when you depart the yard, and if your axle count is off, the dispatcher comes on the radio to tell you what car is either missing or is extra in your train, and adjust your 168. If your axles are off, and the dispatcher doesn't know what the car number is, its probably because the scan bar fell off. Guess who will walk to the location of the car with out a scan bar to find out its number????? I never said the train master is telling me not to do work, and fill out the On Board as if I did do the work. What I said was, today I am only allowed to do the work that the On Board Work Order said I can do. For example. If the customer wants me to pull a car, or spot a car of his that's in the yard, unless he has contacted Jacksonville, and they've entered it into the On Board, I can't do it. The days of me talking to my customer, filling out a paper work order, and adding the work are over. CSX Jacksonville doesn't want me talking to my customer's. They're afraid I might make a move for the customer, and CSX won't get paid. CSX DOES HAVE A GPS ON THE ENGINES. Every morning between 4:00 and 5:00am the train master or RFE can log into the CSX Mainframe and look at what each engine has done the previous day. The program will tell the person looking at it, when the engine was started. When the engine made its first move. How many moves it made. When the engine went to a customers location. How long it sat there. How long the engine sat idle back at the yard or else where. When the engine wasnshut off..... if your train master can't log into that information, your Road Foreman can, and probably does. If the cars went past a scanner, it will tell the person looking at the program that information to. The days of parking your train somewhere out of sight, and out of mind are over. CSX has put Big Brother on all of your engines, and just like the ERAD it will rat you out. Providing your train master knows how to access that program on the mainframe.

Name: ? E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 04 December 2012 Rob Im confused now. Im hearing that supervisors are telling crews to add work done that hasnt been. Like adding a set or pull that hasnt been done because they know it will be done first thing in the morning and no one knows the difference anyway. HMMM, seems to be alot of different orders being given out here. This crap keeps up they are going to start putting gps chips on all the cars to see where they are 24 hours a day!Maybe that would be a good idea. One gets stolen by a terrorist they would know where its heading!

Name: NS conductor trainee E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 03 December 2012 Im a CT for the NS, lots of stories about the Confederate States Express have been relayed to me by our old heads and some former CSX guys. Apparently a large number of the old NS corporate type (the REAL Nazi management) left NS and took over at CSX which made it really bad. The extra board is what it is, a 24/7 job. Cant complain too much about that when they tell you from the get-go thats how it works. Lots of complainers on the RR and lots of people who break the rules blatantly then complain they got caught. Its the rules no one knows about readily that I can see being caught up in and screwed rather than the ones people knowingly break. Id have more sympathy for those people than the ones talking on cell phones in the engine.....Unions suck BTW, they protect the people who broke the rules knowingly

Name: Rob E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 03 December 2012 Other, non - employee N/A I agree with you. CSX LIES. I don't know any employee I work with that wouldn't completely agree with you. Not only does CSX LIE, they STEAL from their employees. CSX IS AN UNETHICAL company. What does it tell you when Scott Conners, the Great Lakes Division Superintendent orders the company officials that work for him to charge and fire his employees, should the employee do anything that could be skewed as a rules violation. If each company official doesn't have at least 10 firings every month, the company official is threatened with his job. In the past when I worked locals, you knew your customers, and you took care of your customers. Today I've had Train Masters threaten to write me up for providing the same service to our customers that I've provided in the past. Here's an example. I had a customer ask me if I would pull few cars that he had just emptied, since I was there. In the past I would have just put this move under add work. Today I'm not allowed to do this, for fear of being written up. My train master said customer service in Jacksonville told him the customer needs to learn that he must enter all work they need into the computer if he wants extra service. If we do any work for the customer that isn't on the On Board, we can be charged for theft of services. Does this make sense? The employee on the ground that knows the customer personally, is being micromanaged by a faceless and nameless person several hundred miles away. CSX isn't concerned with taking care of their customers, they're more concerned with making sure that their micro management, isn't compromised or questioned, no matter how stupid some of their rules seem.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 02 December 2012 Employees of CSX lie, interfere with your business and when you sue they have lawyers that use tactics that are despicable in nature(and any average human being would be prosecuted to the full extent of the law if regular people used these tactics, but CSX has an 11 billion purse to hire the lowest of lawyers) CSX employees keep their jobs & paychecks no matter what the consequence to the injured parties. They use these tactics because they cannot win their case based on its merits because CSX is 100% wrong. There core value of "validate don't speculate" is pure nonsense. There is so much more to this story but it is too lengthy and time consuming to post on this website. Bottom line CSX is only worried about its 11 Billion revenue and its stock prices. It could care less about its customers, as a matter of fact their employees take pride in deliberately destroying individuals livelihoods while they sit back cop an attitude and sleep like babies. How these people sleep at night and look in the mirror is beyond me!!

Name: Coke Ennyday E-mail: Employed as: Train Master/ supervisor, for 30+ years Posted: 02 December 2012 All he needs is a little romance in his life...a five finger romance!

Name: traindispatcher E-mail: movingfr8@csx.com Employed as: Train Dispatcher, for 20-30 years Posted: 02 December 2012 Sounds like Ma must of cut ol Langshaw off if he is that grumpy.

Name: fuck you E-mail: eatdicksdl@csx.com Employed as: Train Dispatcher, for 10-20 years Posted: 01 December 2012 S. D. Langshaw, You need to go get laid or something. You are a fucking uptight, lil bitch ass chief. Keep thinking that chief title means something idiot. Sincerely People in Transportation. P.S. Eat a dick.

Name: Anyone lose some guns E-mail: Employed as: Brakeman, for 10-20 years Posted: 30 November 2012 Any bets if there was some inside info slippin out to find the right car. http://news.yahoo.com/more-100-rifles-stolen-atlanta-train-car-174415216.html BTW CSX is not a class one railroad when did they ever show they were. well maybe the 5th or sixth best class one really just a scab railroad

Name: Midnight Rider E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 30 November 2012 This is the way it should be... http://www.cnn.com/2012/11/30/travel/train-adventures-lifetime/index.html?hpt=hp_c2

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 30 November 2012 Loco N/A: You're going to call the police and have this web site shut down. CSX couldn't do it, what makes you think you can? The only person that can make you come back to this web site is you and since you'll be watching, you'll be logged in. I'll agree there are some crude insensitive jerks that deliberately post wrong or misleading information or insult certain demographic groups but they are the exception. Their only intention is to distract the users from the real point of this site. So do what you have to do and let us know how it works out.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for N/A Posted: 30 November 2012 well, all i have to say is this website needs to be shut down. i work for csx as a locomotive engineer, and this website is wrong, misleading, hateful, and iam going to call the police to have it shut down soon if the problem is not resolved soon. we are a class 1 railroad. better than you ever will be. so shut your goddammed mouth up. do not make me return to this website. i will be watching you. oh, and by the way, fuck you for calling special needs children retards. they cannot help being disabled.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 10-20 years Posted: 30 November 2012 Yes the Big 4 Yard in Avon,I was commenting who the terminal is being ran by.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 29 November 2012 Big 4 Yard in Avon ? We do not hear of as many derailments as before. What are they doing right or wrong? Live nearby

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 10-20 years Posted: 29 November 2012 Icant believe that team that is running the BIG 4 YARD!!!!!!!!!!!!

Name: jim E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years Posted: 28 November 2012 Hey Conductor for less than a year, Thanks for the laugh. If you'd done your research on CSX before you came here, you'd know CSX IS AN UNETHICAL COMPANY. You're not going to quit, CSX is going to lay you off. If you quit, you won't get unemployment. Get laid off after working for the railroad for a year, and enjoy your unemployment while you're out looking for another job. By the way, good luck with that. In this economy, people are lining up for jobs at Mc Donalds. BUT..... When you work at McDonalds, unlike CSX, YOU'LL ONLY WORK FOR ONE CLOWN. :) Good luck with the job search.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for Less than 1 year Posted: 27 November 2012 I can not believe the shit bags that work for this place at every level I'm out I quit

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Friend or family of employee, for 20-30 years Posted: 27 November 2012 About the post on october 26, to the lady that her husband cheated with LBT. I would call his boss and tell him what happened, also call human resources and complain about her. She will always be who she is one day she will get whats coming to her. Your husband should pay for what he did to you.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Friend or family of employee, for 10-20 years Posted: 27 November 2012 Quit crying over something you choose. No one put a gun to your head to go out on your wife with LBT. When you choose to go with that class of people you probably get what you deserved.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Friend or family of employee, for N/A Posted: 19 November 2012 CPR If you want to find out all you would have to do is go to the csx employee gateway site and look at all their "Pat me on the back" propaganda. Im sure if they gave a dime they would make it look like they gave them the world. Dont know about the area you live in, but there is a shortline near us and we see them hauling coal(about 40 cars worth) to the power plants several times a week. They do this all the time. If the shortlines are moving it then why is csx complaining that their coal shipments are way down and now the employees wont be getting a bonus? Seems to me that everyones future might just be in the shortlines. May not pay as much but sometimes big things come in small packages. Heard some of them were looking at new union agreements. May be something to look into.

Name: CPR E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 18 November 2012 http://www.cpr.ca/en/news-and-media/news/Pages/cpdonates1million.aspx Canadian Pacific donates 1 million to Hurricane Sandy Relief How much did CSX put out???????????????

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for Less than 1 year Posted: 18 November 2012 I know how you feel csx ruined my life too they targeted me i think

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 10-20 years Posted: 17 November 2012 This site exist because it's true Csx sucks

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Corporate office, for 20-30 years Posted: 16 November 2012 Hornsby Conductor 1-10??? No kevin listed in any csx directory. Only four listed are in KY, AL, WV, and GA. You one of them? Man up you say. Use your real name or stop using the title conductor.

Name: THE INFANTRYMAN E-mail: kevinhornsby@gmail.com Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 15 November 2012 If this company is so bad and it is so horrible to work here then what the hell are you still working for? Stop crying like a bunch of panzy ass school girls and sniveling and crying about everything. Man up and leave then!

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for Less than 1 year Posted: 13 November 2012 Csx lied to me ! Why why why they ruined my life!

Name: "The YardMaster" E-mail: Employed as: Yard Master, for 10-20 years Posted: 12 November 2012 Roger Roger on that Rex I mean Roger or both of you. Maybe you are the same and I hit a nerve ending. LMFAO Report to the tower for a Job Briefing Roger Rex or Rex Roger. I dropped my pen under the desk BTW while you are down there picking it up....Well you know the rest.................

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 11 November 2012 CSX wins most military friendly employer for the third straight year! CSX is a equal opportunity employer they treat their veteran employees the same as all of their employee's LIKE DIRT! This must be based soley on how many they hire and not how they are treated once hired! Too bad a big chunk of them are furloughed or will be furloughed once trained!

Name: Roger E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 11 November 2012 Pine Nuts I see one of your alter egos, "The Yard Master" has decided to let you leave the safety of the Safety forms, and venture to the other post. Pine Nuts, what a shock seeing you defend a railroad company officer, yet again. I'm guessing the reason you're defending Danny Jerrels, the Great Lakes own Division RFE is because you're envious of the freedon that Scott Conners has given Danny Jerrels to be the man you wish you could only be????? Danny Jerrels goes to strip clubs, and eats and drinks at the railroads expense. You traded your wife for a fist full of railroad gold., like Judas. In fact the two of you have a lot in common don't you Pine Nuts. You both live off money from the railroad. You both watch Internet porn on your computers, and you both don't know jack about the railroad.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Yard Master, for N/A Posted: 09 November 2012 Hey Rex If he finds out about your strip club excursions then he might invite you out with them for more fun then you will be on the in again. LMAO

Name: Pete Burris E-mail: Employed as: Corporate office, for 10-20 years Posted: 09 November 2012 Scott Gray gives one hell of a blow job guys!

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 09 November 2012 Coals out Natural Gas is in Shippin by trucks and ships All i can say is by by railroad

Name: Rex E-mail: Employed as: APE, for 10-20 years Posted: 08 November 2012 A few months back, several people posted information about Great Lakes Division Manager, and Scott Conner's pet, his "fellow Southern Baptist" RFE Danny Jerrells adventure at a strip with Hawthorne's Train Master Troy. Why is it Scott Conner's holds his T&E employees to one standard, and yet his pet Danny to another? Danny is required to live within 50 miles of 31 East Georgia Street, in Indianapolis, Indiana. Yet when Danny comes to Indy on the weekends, he stays at the Holiday Inn where the crews that work out of other terminals stay. Danny also bills his meals and "entertainment" to CSX. Its not like Scott Conners doesn't know what Danny's doing. Scott Conners personally approves all of Danny Jerrells expenditures. Danny's wife, lives in Russell, Kentucky. Danny's mommy lives in Columbus, Ohio. None of these places are close to 31 East Georgia Street. No one would care about these little details if Scott Conners wasn't such a stickler for details, or if Danny didn't keep walking into the company supplied hotel drunk, and bragging about his escapades with the local strippers and Hooker's he's seeing in Indy, all the while billing them to CSX. Didn't Scott Conners fire a guy out of Avon for allegedly being drunk in a company supplied hotel room a few years back?

Name: CMDAVIS E-mail: cmd2031@yahoo.com Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 07 November 2012 Hello CSX employees- Looks like your "pouting-Room" is getting full. I'm a Mechnical Power Technologist (Engineering Technology Oklahoma State University grad. of 1986) and I want you all to know Ive seen the same disregard for common sense treatment of fellow human beings as a result of overbearing and paranoid management personnel in the Naturl Gas industry, and the engine-driven-equipment industries that I have worked in. Even companies like Monsanto Ive found typically have managers with no heart these days - Mostly the bottom line seems to be the only rule that gets followed- Your sacrifices don't get you credit , your incentives are cut way back due to a lack of desire to engage and encourage subordinates in a constructive way. " Ruthless" comes to mind- its a movie from the 1940-50's that portrays a man who was raised as a young man who didnt have much to brag about when it came to loving parents- as a result, he walked all over everone that cared enough to help him get started in life including the young women who would have died to help him win in life. He turned to total shit- had zero integrity and in the end caused his own terrible endbecause he had No charity. Moral of this story - "Don't let the Bastards wear you down "-famous roman saying. Keep charity in your heart and hang in there- If you voted for Mitt Romney I think you were wise-- Dont be afraid to stick your kneck out and try to get ahead!

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Employed in other capacity, for 20-30 years Posted: 07 November 2012 Ape The company will hire any person who brings in the highest dollar amount in financial aid. Military vets are worth top dollar now. The regular civilian off the street isnt worth much at the moment. Unfortunately it is like dealing in live stock. The main priority is to keep the training center open. You cant do that if the seats are empty. DO NOT FORGET that the game of hire and fire is a MUST! As long as the school is open everyone is a target especially those who are making 100% of the pay rate. With financial aid and a starting salary rate of 75% every employee making 100% is considered an extra expense on the books. Yes, you are needed to train the new hires on your job, but once you have done that and they mark up, you are just another expensive burden. Sorry, but thats how big business works. The only thing you can do is follow every rule in the book 100%, document ever encounter you have with supervision, and pray your fellow crew member will stand behind you if you are unfairly targeted. Remember, hunting season is at its highest when business is down.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: APE, for Less than 1 year Posted: 05 November 2012 I read on the internet CSX seems to be just wanting to hire vets would this be for a big tax credit or up front govt money is everyone else screwed?

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 05 November 2012 LE 10- 20 RRJ. Nice job with the new Conductor that gave up his business. $130.00 per week, wife kids tough, cut off and starving. Time to stand up and be a MAN, don't blame the CSX, they did not target you. The RR runs in groups, has since ww2 when every one left. Called the draft. Those unfit for service took over the rails. why because they needed a job, and were not required to serve their country, and produced so many, in a lump, and it continues today. The rails have never forgotten that period, and that is why and from that experience the RR hire x military at a very high rate. It is not get hired and live a nice life, Get hired and like it is more realistic, get cutoff and like it, roof houses for a while, and like it. Or get a shell for your pickup, and like that. It ain't bad living in a pickup camper and getting a check. Now if ya like heat and air this might not be for you?

Name: Broke E-mail: Employed as: Employed in other capacity, for 1-10 years Posted: 05 November 2012 Johnny K you think the republicans give a shit about your retirement? They obviously aren't going to change their minds bc as they call them on your conservative radio shows "some union thugs" don't agree with it. You've got your head so far up your ass it ain't funny. Here you are working a decent job because people fought and died against these companies to make a fair wage and benefits but your dumbass is sitting high in the saddle but you've never shoed the horse. If you want these blood sucking republicans in there I hope your pension is the first to go.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years Posted: 05 November 2012 Conductor less than 1 year, RRJ is right, we all go through that early in our carreer. It sucks! If you stick it out long enough, take your lumps, and put in your dues, it can payoff in the long run. Just don't fall into that gap thinking that management or the railroad really cares about you because they don't.

Name: RRJ E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 05 November 2012 Cond < than a year What's happening to you is the downside of railroading. There are railroad sites that have employment sections that explain the negatives & positives. One of the biggest negatives "furloughs". You made that decision as a man you have to live with it. I'm surprised you can collect unemployment formerly owning your own business. Mabey you were a little hasty on selling out. Bringing in a partner would of been wiser. I guess you didn't get the memo the difficult 3-5 years starting out on the railroad. To expect furloughs, being bounced around jobs, having to work other terminals away from home ect....I'm not making light of your situation but you should of studied it more before taking the leap. For other considering the railroad not just CSX but any of them there's a good info site with an employment section railroad.net which has been around for quite some time. Not that it's any consulation but the other railroads are also furloughing especially in coal regions.

Name: Johnny K E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 20-30 years Posted: 04 November 2012 It is up here NOW and please get this out there. Romney and Ryan must come out against any and all tapping into the railroad Retirement pension plan. http://callofthepatriot.blogspot.com/2012/08/railroad-retirement-is-major-issue.html Obama Attacking Romney On Railroad Retirement, The Biggest Stealth Issue Of The 2012 Election Update: We have done our best to be Paul Revere on this important issue. If conservatives stick their heads in the sand, and allow Romny/Ryan not to address this, it is going to result in four more years of Obama. How many votes did G.W. Bush beat Al Gore by in the 2004 election? Nothing is more true to the spirit of the “Taxed Enough Already movement” than privatized retirement trusts. And nothing is more tax and spend liberal than to try to liberate these trusts into the money-flushing toilet that is our government’s general fund. ***** (Update August 12, 1:32 PM) FULL RADIO INTERVIEW: Mark Levin says Paul Ryan was a great VP pick by Romney. I believe that Mark Levin is right, Ryan is a great pick, but he is going to need to clear up this issue before it becomes their Achilles Heel. ***** (Update August 12, 2012 4:11 PM) The purpose of this article to clear up the misinformation that is being spread by the Obama administration and campaign, and their union allies about Mitt Romney and his stance on railroad retirement. This is not an attack on Mr. Romney or Mr. Ryan. It is a heads-up!

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for Less than 1 year Posted: 04 November 2012 Well gave up my life to become part of the Csx family sold my company to get rid of the headaces and start over 6 months training passed everything good grades no safety issues markup and get laid off thanks Csx you shit bags now having trouble paying my bills me and wife fighting my kids upset lay awake night with tears in my eyes how did I get here oh I know. Csx the headache I had with my company were nothing to what I'm going thur now if your training or trying to get job with Csx run for your life don't believe a word they tell you union rep are no help my furlough pay 130 a week how do I rise a family on that get a part time job you say try finding a job where you tell them I have to leave when the railroad calls Csx does not care about you your just a number all I have left is my faith and even that been shakeing

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 1-10 years Posted: 03 November 2012 I also understand your complaint about that phone ringing off the hook in the middle of the night, but everyone still forgets to remember the facts. CSXT has an ungrateful, unprofessional, vindictive group of people running and making decisions within this company. They are not labor friendly, they don't care others the way that we do, they only care about there own pockets. I really hate CSXT, my wife hates them even more than I do, so you know thats pretty bad!

Name: RRJ E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 03 November 2012 Cond 10-20 I'll agree, I hated getting calls multiple times during the wee hours for CMC looking to fill jobs especially when I let my qualifications lapse. That's the fault of the RFE or TM for not updating information it's their job to make sure it's current. CMC has a job to do I can't blame them there just employees. With ya'll being licensed these days that should put a stop to trying to force conductors on jobs that they're not qualified or haven't worked in over a year. At least that's the way it is for engineers to stay qualified they have to work a job at least once within the last 12 months.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 10-20 years Posted: 02 November 2012 RRJ I agree with part of what you say, but I also agree with the other poster as well. All crew management wants is a warm body and they dont care how they get it. I get soooooo sick and tired of being woke up just so they can ask me if I can take a job on an area that Im not gualified on and never have been. I have been telling them for years that Im not qualified east, but they just keep calling me and waking me up. Sometimes several times in the night. Why in the hell cant they develope a computer program that will identify all the employees who are qualified east and only call them when they are running their damn rosters. If a person gets qualified another direction then the supervisors can notify crew management that they can be added to their list of available people to call. I wish they would just leave me the hell alone!

Name: RRJ E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 02 November 2012 "IF you happen to be on duty at 0100"? Call a manager? Why? You work for a frigging railroad on call 24/7. Actually I preferred late evening early morning calls we had a better chance of getting over the road with no obsticles like MOW, signal maintainers ect....Psychological warfare? Only if you let them have control. If one sinks to their level then they are no better.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Friend or family of employee, for N/A Posted: 01 November 2012 Let them know how it feels: If any of you just happen to be on duty at 0100; call your manger or any manager from a company or blocked phone and hang-up after they answer it! Railroad management is about psychological warfare! Right?

Name: Ritt Romney E-mail: Employed as: Employed in other capacity, for 30+ years Posted: 31 October 2012 Hello All you Voting Flockers Gayward is recalculating your Trickle Down Engineer Bonus and things do not look good because Obama stopped some coal trains. If your trickle does not get down to you then so be it and hope you have better luck next year. Vote for me and gayward will get you a double trickle. I am Ritt Romney and I approved this message Vote for me and see what surprised I have in for you.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 10-20 years Posted: 30 October 2012 I have never worked for such a cheap company in my life, and most people that work for CSX can understand what I am saying. They don't wanna pay anybody for anything, they want to cut & combine every job that you see, and they still expect everything to move on time. They should write and film a comedy about this railroad...LMFAO!

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 30 October 2012 Carnie Its called capitolism Watch the micheal moore movie about it

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Engine repair, for 20-30 years Posted: 29 October 2012 Engine repair Hate to tell you this, but yeah, thats who and what you signed up with. If they didnt put it in writing that you may not be placed in a job position when you signed on then get a lawyer and see what your options are if you had any losses like the others. Maybe you can get your old job back. If I were you, I would call UP, CNIC or another class one rr and see what your options are since you just graduated. You will make more money working for someone else. CSX is lowest paying class one rr around. Sorry about your luck

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Engine repair, for Less than 1 year Posted: 28 October 2012 Graduated REDI as Machinist, and 20 minutes before getting on bus to go back to the hotel to pack up and head home, they tell us the jobs we were hired for are no longer available to us. We will be placed in a pool indefinitely and contacted to start when buisness picks up! All of us quit jobs to spend 5 weeks training at REDI. A couple of guys sold there homes and paid to have their families move while in Atlanta for REDI training. Is this how CSX treats their employees. I left a job making 25 bucks an hour to work for CSX. Now I have NO JOB! Any clue on what's going on and how long it will last?

Name: GC E-mail: Employed as: Employed in other capacity, for 10-20 years Posted: 27 October 2012 ATTENTION!!! As you have noticed, which you should have, there have been several reissues of the CSX System Bulletins due to rule changes, errors in print, etc... If you are coming in and getting your first new reissue that cancels the previous reissue, DO NOT AND I REPEAT, DO NOT LEAVE ON YOUR ASSIGNMENT UNTIL YOU HAVE READ EVERY PAGE AND UNDERSTAND ANY CHANGES FROM THE PREVIOUS ISSUE! If you can not find the change that warranted the reissue then you need to get with the supervisor on duty and have them tell you what it is. DO NOT LET THEM RUSH YOU OR INTIMIDATE YOU INTO TAKING A TRAIN WITHOUT KNOWING WHAT THE CHANGE IS. It could be something fairly minor or something extremely serious. If the supervisor can not tell you what it is and wants you to leave to protect his departure time, then you make him tell you in front of other witnesses that you can leave without the knowledge of the rule change and that you will not be held accountable for breaking that rule because you were not made aware of it or given time to read the reissue thoroughly. We all know supervisors do not have the right to order you to violate an operating rule but if they dont know the answers to your questions and they want you out the door then they need to take responsibility before you leave. Read the reissues carefully. It has been reported that some procedures for certain rules have been changed or "worded" differently from the current operating rules book or timetables.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 26 October 2012 Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 23 October 2012 other non Question for you....Three crews are sitting in the hotel rested and able to take the next train out. First out crew has of course been sitting there rotting the longest(25 hours)and gets called out on the next train and the other 2 crews deadhead home right behind them. What kind of timing is it your talking about? How fast you can call and suck up before the other crews do? Wont do any good if the other crews are "PET" crews. Bunch of bull sh.... We all now what this game is all about. ______________________________________________________________________ In my old time days it was a passenger train or a bus. I never knew who made the call times. I have seen the first crew DH, second crew work and 3rd DH. It was all based on the time the train was called and the bus, passenger train schedules. I always liked the DH, and hated to get run around, but that was, and appears to be life on the RR. Now your comment about "PET" crews is valid. Start to work on your inter personal relationships, and be a happy person. Better relations relate to better over the road performance, better DH and so much more. This is not a kiss ass thing, just go when it is green, stop bitching and be the best you can be. They will notice and give you a green when they can.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Friend or family of employee, for 10-20 years Posted: 26 October 2012 Well I spoke to someone yesterday and they are interested in that they have an employee that called and harassed his supervisor at work from a phone other th an his main phone to continue the harassment...so I an happy to say they do care and ur will be pursued by not only him but another branch and yea if u knew me and know Mr. Carrhart boy u would know I live better, look better and will have happiness always have always will.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Employed in other capacity, for N/A Posted: 26 October 2012 Friend or family Im sorry to be the one to tell you this, but nothing will happen. This happened with a supervisor on the chicago division. He was sleeping with an engineers wife. He was actually caught by the husband having sex on an engine. His wife worked for the railroad too. Husband tried to bring charges up on him but didnt do a bit of good. They covered it up to save their reputation. This woman will be protected and to protect her they will have to protect him. Sorry, just move on and forget you ever heard of him or the evil company that he works for. Pretend it was just a nightmare and its over, Being mad and bitter wont change a thing. Being happy and enjoying life without both of them is the best revenge!

Name: skive - gator E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 30+ years Posted: 26 October 2012 well, the fecal smell has resided from tilford yard since the removal of. Marcus Calhoun Mmcant !

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Friend or family of employee, for 10-20 years Posted: 26 October 2012 I am currently beginning divorce precedings with my husband who is currently a csx employee a engineer out of bham. My question for all employees here is what or how do you think I should handle the following..so I handle correctly and what do you think will abe done about it. My husband cheated a couple years ago with a gross old lady boss of his Laura T that everyone has screwed at the railroad and I know when things ended with their affair I found out she had to have her number changed because he was harrassing her and he then actually bought another phone a prepaid phone to continue getting her number and also calling her at work on a private number he wasn't supposed to even call. Since he was harassing his boss at time of employment and he wants a divorce now and wants to harass me I am going to make sure csx is aware they had an employee that has done this. This is a huge harassment violation. U want to play u got to pay. And its gonna cost him big for sticking it to ugly crab lady.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Employed in other capacity, for N/A Posted: 25 October 2012 SCREWED!!!!! Well if you didnt get the peice of toilet paper in the mail sent by none other than the king himself(mikey ward) then heres a shock for you. The bonuses are going to be very little and a possibilty of none at all! He blames the hard working men and women in the fields for lack of coal shipments and velocity being down. WHAT A CROCK OF HORSE CRAP! The hard working blue collar workers have done everything they were supposed to do all year. It is his white collar peanut counters who are not doing THEIR JOBS! If coal is down it sure the hell is not the fault of any conductor or engineer! lISTEN UP MICKEY WARD. WE ALL CHALLENGE YOU TO SHOW US ANY PROOF OF ANY TRAIN THAT DID NOT GET MOVED AND DELIVERED. SHOW US ONE TRAIN SITTING IN ANY YARD THAT HAS BEEN THERE FOR OVER A YEAR. I KNOW FOR A FACT THAT EVERY TRAIN THAT I HAVE BEEN CALLED TO MOVE HAS BEEN MOVED AND DELIVERED. WE HAVE ALL DONE OUR JOBS. IF COAL SHIPMENTS ARE DOWN ITS YOUR FAULT BECAUSE YOU HAVENT GIVEN THEM TO US TO MOVE. YOU ARE NOT DOING YOUR JOB! SO CUT YOUR BONUS AND YOUR RAISE AND GIVE IT TO THE REST OF US WHO HAVE DONE OUR JOB AND MOVED YOUR TRAINS. SELL YOUR SECOND HOME AND GIVE THE MONEY TO THE REAL WORKERS! HOW DARE YOU BLAME US FOR BAD VELOCITY. TRY PUTTING SOME ADEQUATE POWER ON THE TRAINS. MAYBE WE COULD RUN TRACK SPEED. HOW ABOUT AN ENGINE THAT DOESNT DROP ITS LOAD OR OVER HEAT OR WHEELSLIP! GET RID OF YOUR WHIP AND BEAT AND RULE BY FEAR MENTALITY. GET YOUR WEED WEASLES OUT OF ALL THE BUSHES WAITING TO POUNCE ON US AT ANY MINUTE. GET DISPATCHERS WHO DONT TAKE 20 MINUTES TO ANSWER THE RADIO WHEN YOUR TRYING TO TONE THEM UP. GET YOUR RAIL UP TO DATE SO WE DONT GET THROWN OUT OF THE SEATS. ALWAYS HAVING TO SLOW DOWN TO PREVENT AN INJURY. YOU ARE THE ROOT CAUSE OF ALL THE PROBLEMS. NO ONE TRUST YOUR EQUIPMENT. WHAT MAKES YOU THINK THAT WE SHOULD TRUST YOUR ERAD AND GPS TO BE CORRECT. WE ARE NOT STUPID! YOUR DETECTORS ARE A JOKE. ALWAYS SOMETHING WRONG WITH THEM. WE CANT AFFORD TO TRY AND RUN TRACK SPEED. THOSE THAT DO ARE FOOLS! WE HAVE NO CHOICE BUT TO RUN UNDER TO PROTECT OUR JOBS. SO GO AHEAD AND PUNISH US FOR DOING OUR JOBS THE SAFEST WAY WE KNOW HOW AND YOU NOT DOING YOURS. WE WILL BE WATCHING. WE WILL KNOW WHEN YOU HAND OUT BONUSES TO YOUR SUPERVISORS ON THEIR TEAM BUILDING TRIPS DISGUISED AS "SPENDING CASH"! WE WILL FOLLOW ALL THE LITTLE "PERKS" THEY GET. WE WILL BE WATCHING! WHEN YOU DO, IT WILL JUST BE MORE PROOF THAT YOU ARE PUNISHING THE REAL WORKERS IN THE FIELDS AND NOT THOSE WHO ARE AT FAULT!

Name: Carnegie E-mail: Employed as: APE, for 10-20 years Posted: 24 October 2012 Watch The History Channel's story about Men Who Built American: The story of Andrew Carnegie building his steel empire is the very similar tactics that the robber barons have used the last 20 years to cut wages. The only difference is that Carnegie used hired death squads and barons used field managers and corrupt union officers. Carnegie was so obsessed with David Rockefeller having three times his wealth, he ordered his goons to reduce the pay of his workers; too work 12 hour days, and six days a week (Sounds familiar?), too increase his wealth. The cut in pay and long hours obviously had an effect on the steel workers. Hence: THEY STARTED DYING! This same scenario is the Railroad's Version of Head-On-Collisions! I can recall an ex-CSX CEO, years ago, selling the company's assets (right away)and being awarded a big chunks of the assets sold in salary and bonuses. When that happened; the CEO's salary was much higher than his peers at much larger railroads. And folks; that's when the raiding (mega-million salaries and bonuses) started. Any statistician can look at any chart (Annual Report/Union's Stats ) and determine when the raiding started and the precipitant rise in fatalities on the railroad.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 24 October 2012 Im waitin for that stock to go down so i can buy buy buy

Name: Gayward Flocker E-mail: Employed as: Corporate office, for 30+ years Posted: 23 October 2012 Attention All Engineer Flockers: You engineer bonus this year will be down sorry about that but my Flocker Math seems to work out to 66.66 percent. So be it and I hope you can work alittle harder to get it up higher and longer. Then maybe we can get you more. Spread the word. Yours in railroading safely and carefully on the CSX Gayward Flocker

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 23 October 2012 other non Question for you....Three crews are sitting in the hotel rested and able to take the next train out. First out crew has of course been sitting there rotting the longest(25 hours)and gets called out on the next train and the other 2 crews deadhead home right behind them. What kind of timing is it your talking about? How fast you can call and suck up before the other crews do? Wont do any good if the other crews are "PET" crews. Bunch of bull sh.... We all now what this game is all about.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 23 October 2012 Crew calling, DH or 1st out. Now hear is the question. Who goes first? I know no one likes to get run around by a DH crew. This is really about timing, and influence, and that is a (real) part of the Railroad. It might not be fair and to your liking, but ya live with it, and keep on complaining every pay check. Then ya retire and love life. Same as everyone want's.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 22 October 2012 Traindispatcher Thankyou for your honesty. So now we know its the chiefs fault. And as for some just not giving a f...k I can believe that. Of course there are some dispatchers who are rude and total control freaks on the radio. I know there are some conductors who do down town and work out in the gym with some of them. Might explain why they get deadheads too!

Name: oooh my E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 20-30 years Posted: 21 October 2012 CSX stock will probable be at 15 or 16 dollars a share if this railroad keeps going the way it is. Will someone in Jax wake the hell up and change things so we can go back to making money insted of trying to cut and save all the time.Get rid of some of those worthless upper managers that couldn't run a freaking train around a Christmas tree. Just amazing, freaking amazing.

Name: Train dispatcher E-mail: Employed as: Train Dispatcher, for 20-30 years Posted: 21 October 2012 bame it on the chief. Dispatchers are not responsible for crew balancing, ACDs "chiefs" are. Yes, it is very rude to call a crew then deadhead right behind them. To be honest, some just don't give a fuck.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 20 October 2012 HEY TRAIN DISPATCHERS, I got a question. Rumor has it that you guys have been keeping track of all the crew members who call in to get a deadhead home. Heard you also keep a list of all the excuses that they come up with and some are pretty good. Would you like to share? Also, I was told that deadheads were supposed to be given to the crew who was first out in the hotel waiting to be called if they were rested and there were other crews behind them that were rested and able to protect the other trains on schedule. Ive seen you call alot of people first out who have been sitting in the hotel for 30 or more hours to get a train and then deadhead several crews home right behind them within less than an hour! If its not in writing how this is supposed to be done and it a gentlemans agreement then that might explain why some of these crew members who call you all the time to get deadheaded home are getting the deadheads. Why would you give these people the deadheads and why would you not give the deadhead to the first out rested crew when others are available? If they are a pain and you guys think its a joke why would you give them the deadheads. Why do you always blame it on the chief? I think you just use it for an opportunity to stick it to someone you dont like! We arent stupid! We know what your doing. Explain the reasoning to us as why you would do this!

Name: Way Over Due E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years Posted: 20 October 2012 IT'S TIME, Upper management have cut the roots of CSX enough either by furloughs or piss poor attitudes they give everyone in the field, now its time to trim the top in Jax and other areas of wasted $$$$.Everybody knows if you cut the roots of a tree without trimming the top if falls over. So do something PLEASE, before we all yell TIMBER.

Name: WTF E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years Posted: 20 October 2012 I wish they would have a shake up in Human Resources they keep putting people in positions where they don't belong. Any where from trainmasters to vice presidents, I'm sure we all know someone in these positions. I know one VP of car management that i've worked for and around that was an ADM at the time and knew nothing about railroad operations everything he touched turned into a nightmare.(I guess his moto was SCREW IT UP AND MOVE ON TO MY NEXT PROJECT), SO LET it be said he would'nt make a pimple on a VP's ass. So come on human resources do a better job finding the right and qualified person for the job it can't be that tough.I know a couple of retarded people looking for a job, would'nt be any different. ooops sorry not politically correct mentally challenged sorry.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Conductor, for 1-10 years Posted: 18 October 2012 SIG MAN! You will never see any of us get a bonus for not getting hurt and working safe. First off, fra says it will only encourage us not to turn in any reportable injuries that are caused by the companies neglect. Second, there isnt any way in hell that the supervisors will let that happen because they get the bonuses for US NOT GETTING HURT! Why in the hell they get a bonus for us not getting hurt is a joke. I wonder if the stockholders know that the company is wasting all this money on supervisors that dont do anything but stalk employees to get a failure! They dont do a thing to keep us from getting hurt on the job. We do it OURSELVES! I dont know of ANYONE who wants to get hurt. Who wants to lose a leg or arm or maybe something worse. NO ONE DOES! Another reason they dont need a bonus is because they have shown in the past that they will headhunt injured employees so know one wants to take the risk of turning in an injury anyway. I think their so-called safety bonuses should be abolished all together and should be used to upgrade crappy equipment and locomotives(no air, no heat, bad toilets, etc...) and maybe put some good walking stone down and what ever. Maybe upgrade the radio repeaters for better coverage. Do what ever needs to be done in other departments as well........ HA HA HA HA .....never going to happen! Bonuses encourage them to stalk and headhunt. They dont turn in failures then they cant justify getting that bonus!

Name: E-mail: Employed as: APE, for 10-20 years Posted: 14 October 2012 The CSX Ethics Hotline is being used by chicken shit managers that are too lazy to handle unethical situations at their respective locations. CSX you have some real physco people running your railroad, I am glad I cashed in my CSX stock, I would not invest in a company that promotes such dumb-ass people to be responsible for your company. Oh, go behind your managers and ask the employees about the Voice of the Employee and you will get blank stares just like the Mutual Accountability bull shit program you tried to implement.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Friend or family of employee, for 10-20 years Posted: 13 October 2012 The Ethics hotline is a valued tool, which if used correctly, can help to protect the CSX workforce. Unfortunately, the Ethics hotline is abused by the very employees that are supposed to be protected by it. It has become a tool for the employee to use when they want to avoid being held accountable. They believe that if they can create a diversion by making a false accusation, then they can continue their unethical behavior of stealing company time or resources.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Train Dispatcher, for 1-10 years Posted: 12 October 2012 Has anyone noticed that CSX has a campain push on for the awareness of the “CSX Code of Ethics” and “Workplace Violence Awareness”. If you work for CSX you have received two propaganda mailings within the last month. The thing that they are not telling you is that the Crew Management Center is currently under investigation for a hostile work environment, coincidental, I think not. If you have any issues with a hostile work environment, be it the Crew Management Center, Customer Service, Train Dispatch, Trainmasters, or any other department or individual now is the time to act. Go to the OSHA website: http://www.osha.gov/pls/osha7/eComplaintForm.html to file an online complaint. Or go online to your local regional office at http://www.osha.gov/html/RAmap.html and click you regional to file a live complaint. Now is the time to act, your name will be help confidential, and your complaint will be investigated. OSHA is fed up with the arrogance and hostile culture of the railroads and are levying record fines, back pay, and punitive damages to railroads. Railroad employees who have been wronged by the railroads are receiving record compensation for back pay, punitive damages, and reinstatement with personal records being cleared of all records associated with the incidents. You may also call 904.232.2895 this the office currently involved with the Crew Management Center. If you think your job is unsafe or you have been threatened, harassed, discriminated against or intimidated by management or fellow employees in any way, you want to contact OSHA and ask for a review and inspection of the incident. Contact OSHA, it is confidential. If you have been fired, demoted, transferred or discriminated against in any way for using your rights under the law, you must file a complaint with OSHA within 30 days of the alleged discrimination. The time to make a change is now, remember the corporate culture related to reporting workplace injuries? This is the same thing, they are just expounding their culture of harassment and intimidation to creating a hostile work environment.

Name: RRJ E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 30+ years Posted: 09 October 2012 LE 10-20 The rear end rolled back past the dwarf? That's what I'm getting. Did the conductor put handbrakes on the rear of the train? That's where they should of been especially on a grade not at the cut. You did a handbrake test it should of held if the train was properly secured. That would make the conductor responsible for the rollback. Can't see why you admitted total fault. A year is about right from what I've seen in the past. I've known some that spent up to 2 years in the street that was because they lied about the incident. Stay in contact with the LC. It should be getting close to an appeal.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 20-30 years Posted: 08 October 2012 LOCO Sorry to hear about your bad luck. Did you have previous discipline that has caused you to be out longer? If not, then you should be riding your LC to find out why you were treated more harshly. Being honest and admitting to your failures doesnt mean squat if they want you out longer for some reason! Also, you have me confused. You pulled into a track that you were too long to fit in. You got permission from dispatch for head room out which required going by the pot signal. We do that all the time. YOu lost me when you said you did your yard air test(guessing 1 minute break test) and you then rolled back past a signal? You had one behind you too? Then you pulled forward and passed another signal? Or,was it when you released the breaks for a test the train pulled you back past the pot and when you pulled forward again you went past the pot a second time?

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Employed in other capacity, for 20-30 years Posted: 08 October 2012 We all know Gayward is robbing CSX and his management skills are very poor because he employes Nazi types who have not skills or knowledge. They just do as told or they hit the highway. This one reason this is the COCK SUCKER eXpress. I think Bill Gates holds alot of stock in this shit hole and he should shit can Ward and the top ones who are creating this HOSTILE WORK ENVIRONMENT. GAYWARD CAN TAKE MORE GERBERLS UP THE YAZOO JUST LIKE HE LIKES IT. jUST DUMB DOWN THIS SHIT HOLE MORE AND MORE EVERYDAY ONE DAY SOMEONE WILL MAKE A FATAL DECISION THEN THE INNOCENT PUBLIC WILL SUFFER THE RESULTS. HOW MUCH WILL GAYWARD PAY OUT NOTHING HE WILL HANG SOME YOUNG DUMBASS THEY HIRE. LOCO ENGINEER WHY IS YOUR UTU NOT GETTING YOU BACK TO WORK BY NOW SOUNDS FISHY TO ME. BECAREFUL POSTING HERE

Name: Free Speech E-mail: Employed as: APE, for 1-10 years Posted: 08 October 2012 Does higher executive pay lead to better profits? I believe the average railroad executive is corrupt....A railroad executive earns $25 million annually and takes a medical leave of absence. Another executive takes over and earns $4 million annually and reports all time record profits. Was the $25 million executive overpaid? And imagine how many more employees could have been employed to improve efficiency! Can anyone run a railroad? No. Just railroad CEO's who earns $25 million annually! freespeechandblog.org

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years Posted: 08 October 2012 I came into the yard with too long of a train. I pulled the track that i was instructed to. I was also instructed to contact the Dispatcher & get talked by the signal. I received permission by the dwarf signal & made my move. I preformed the yard brake test & rolled back on top of the signal. I pulled ahead when my conducted told me to running the RedBoard.I took full "ownership" of the screwup & was pulled out of service. I have been out of service for almost a year. I told the officials that my conductor was back at the cut & he had nothing to do with the incident. He was back to work the next day. I know I screwed up big, but what I don't get is that last engineer i know who ran a redboard, 2 power switches & several miles of mail track was back to work in 6 months. I just ran a redboard & a power switch by 2 axles & I am STILL out of service. There does not appear to be a standard of discipline. It is very frustrating. I want to go back to work & provide for my family. I have felt "less than a man" because i can't fully provide for the family. Thank God for RedBoard Insurance through the UTU. I recommend all UTU Members sign up, it's a great benefit.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Friend or family of employee, for N/A Posted: 07 October 2012 OLd STYLE Nice bit of history info. Some interesting reading. CSX GLD crew got shot at yesterday afternoon. Looks like the gun shooting fools are still out there!

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Corporate office, for Less than 1 year Posted: 07 October 2012 Ethics hotline is just a buffer to head off problems and lawsuits and a hoop to jump thur. You twatmaster will have the info almost as soon as it is called in to the line. then he will want to fuck u over and make up shit. it is a no win situation. OSHA has done more the railroads than anyone beside attorneys. If u are a minority the hotline might work.

Name: NOYFB E-mail: Employed as: Employed in other capacity, for 30+ years Posted: 07 October 2012 The entire Ethics Hotline is nothing but window dressing. Something to look good like most everything else large corporations do. Catchy slogans, policies that appear to provide protection to workers from management, employee help phone numbers and any other so called "benefit" is only to put on a front to outsiders. Two sets of rules; one for employees, the other for management.

Name: Ol Style E-mail: Employed as: Brakeman, for 30+ years Posted: 06 October 2012 On this day in 1866, the Reno gang carries out the first robbery of a moving train in the U.S., making off with over $10,000 from an Ohio & Mississippi train in Jackson County, Indiana. Prior to this innovation in crime, holdups had taken place only on trains sitting at stations or freight yards. SNOW & WARD ROBBED CSX EVERYDAY AND WARD HAS STEPPED IT UP WITH HIS NAZI TACTICS LEGALIZED TRAIN ROBBERY ???? JUST NOT GOT CAUGHT YET This new method of sticking up moving trains in remote locations low on law enforcement soon became popular in the American West, where the recently constructed transcontinental and regional railroads made attractive targets. With the western economy booming, trains often carried large stashes of cash and precious minerals. The sparsely populated landscape provided bandits with numerous isolated areas perfect for stopping trains, as well as plenty of places to hide from the law. Some gangs, like Butch Cassidy's Wild Bunch, found robbing trains so easy and lucrative that, for a time, they made it their criminal specialty. Railroad owners eventually got wise and fought back, protecting their trains' valuables with large safes, armed guards and even specially fortified boxcars. Consequently, by the late 1800s, robbing trains had turned into an increasingly tough and dangerous job. As for the Reno gang, which consisted of the four Reno brothers and their associates, their reign came to an end in 1868 when they all were finally captured after committing a series of train robberies and other criminal offenses. In December of that year, a mob stormed the Indiana jail where the bandits were being held and meted out vigilante justice, hanging brothers Frank, Simeon and William Reno (their brother John had been caught earlier and was already serving time in a different prison) and fellow gang member Charlie Anderson.

Name: WTF E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 20-30 years Posted: 05 October 2012 I think that every employee that recieved the code of ethics pamplet in the mail should send it back to Jax postage due, what a crock of crap. our management hides around yards and main lines 24/7 just waiting for employee to make a mistake(talk about un-ethical). T was a trainmaster for 10 years and when they had swat teams out they would have a lunch or dinner afterwards and the first thing they would say is DID YOU CATCH ANYBODY not did you see anyone doing a good job.Why does CSX want the employees that make the company $$ have such crappy attitudes. these people are their greatest assets. Upper managament is the reason our stock goes nowhere. So send your little propaganda booklet back to Jax ASAP it's not even worth reading.

Name: Maddawg E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 04 October 2012 Its Oct 4 2012. I have been away from Chicken Shit Xpress for almost 4 years. Life is great and CSX still sucks!

Name: been there E-mail: Employed as: Brakeman, for 1-10 years Posted: 03 October 2012 Train Dispatcher Now that you put the guys number out, I hope he is drinking alot of coffee and gets his pens and note pads ready... Hey...would calling you at home and threatening to miss call you if you dont take a job you are not qualified on and they wont find you a pilot or calling you after call hours that would make you go on duty after the start of your rest day be considered creating a hostile work enviornment or.... would it be that they are just plain stupid for threatening you with a miss call when you are sitting right there TALKING ON THE PHONE WITH THE MORONS. Last time I checked the policy you were charged with a missed call when they couldnt reach you and you didnt call them back. I didnt know having a lengthy conversation with them could be considered...MISSING A CALL!

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years Posted: 03 October 2012 This all sounds great, but this problem goes beyond crew management. When it comes to management itself within the ranks, CSX is without a doubt one terrible company. The sad story is that management has been the problem with this company for years, and nothing seems to change, it just gets worse. There is a reason why employees refer to CSX management as Nazi's. Some find it funny, others outside the company find it hard to believe, yet people continue to be fired everyday on this railroad for the most minor offenses. Most employees agree that they like there job on this railroad, they just don't like the people that they work for. I wonder why?

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Train Dispatcher, for 1-10 years Posted: 03 October 2012 Crew Management is currently being investigated by OSHA for a hostile work environment. If you have a story or complaint contact John Waler 904.562.5446 OSHA Investigator. Now is the time to do it. OSHA is levying record fines against Railroads for their harassment and intimidation of its employees. If we join together and all work as one we may be able to change the corporate culture and enjoy a working environment free for harassment and intimidation. Not just the normal propaganda campaigns of empty promises.

Name: Sad company E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years Posted: 02 October 2012 Bob Frulla is the railroad and if you don't believe me just ask him......He has destroyed the Huntington division.....ask any huntington division employes including the officials....very sad place to be

Name: GOD E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 01 October 2012 I have Lighting Rods to take care of those problems. One never knows when or where a Lighting Bolt will strike.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Employed in other capacity, for 30+ years Posted: 30 September 2012 Train Dispatcher Got that right, but one thing Skarrupa NEVER did...claimed to be a good old southern baptist boy to get on the good side of the false prophet....Wolf in sheeps clothing trying to fool the wolf... AHH AHH AHH!

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Train Dispatcher, for 20-30 years Posted: 29 September 2012 Yeah, I saw that. Let me make a correction first. It was Skaruppa the former RFE that was canned and not Jerrell. Jerrell was one of the staggering drunks on the 25TH...........................................................................You should add Skaruppa is on paid leave trying to sue CSX but he did lots of dirty shit to employees and padded his expense account. This place has strange bedfellows if you read between the lines.

Name: ydm ago E-mail: Employed as: Yard Master, for 20-30 years Posted: 29 September 2012 But what about LBT?z

Name: RCA E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 29 September 2012 Just thought some of you should know the Flowers boy going back to work was by selling off your time claims not sure if he got back this time though.

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Employed in other capacity, for 20-30 years Posted: 29 September 2012 RE; GLK, regarding the FRA: The FRA officials are 99% ex-company managers; usually RFEs, who are just a covert extension of company managers. In other words; there's really no federal oversight--it's just a scam. The carriers have had more fatalities (head/rear collisions) in the last 4 years than the previous 10 years combined. America carriers have more head/rear collisions than Canada and all the South American railroads combined (INCLUDING MEXICO). Crews are so afraid to lay-off knowing they are not fully rested due to always faulty line-ups and simply, to many distractions. Rail union bosses in union meetings; talks more about (what ifs) discipline from field testing than about genuine contract issues--such as claims pay-out or why CEOs are making $25 Million annually.... Think out loud people!

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 10-20 years Posted: 27 September 2012 September 27, 2012......and CSX STILL SUCKS!!!!!!!!

Name: GLC E-mail: Employed as: Employed in other capacity, for 10-20 years Posted: 27 September 2012 LISTEN UP FRA!! We all know you monitor this site. Take a good look at the post from "LOCO ENGINEER" making the threat that someone might just get a test failure if they dont keep their traps shut. Cant prove it came from a supervisor but it just goes to show that observation testing is not what it was intended to be(a learning tool for employees) It has become a way to punish and retaliate against anyone who speaks out and tries to follow the rules even if they are inconvenient or expose the wrong doings of a supervisor. It has become a way to create the ever so needed turnover rate which has been ordered to be mandatory! You created this mess with the program now YOU NEED TO FIX IT! You gave management this whipping tool, YOU FIX IT! COME ON FRA....TAKE RESPONSIBILITY FOR YOUR MESS AND FIX IT!

Name: NoMo E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 27 September 2012 Hey other: Yeah, I saw that. Let me make a correction first. It was Skaruppa the former RFE that was canned and not Jerrell. Jerrell was one of the staggering drunks on the 25TH. If that's not a veiled threat by a supervisor and a comment from a contract employee, all I can say is the Connors' harassment and intimidation policy has worked the way it was intended. A 10+ year employee that would kowtow to such treatment has indeed been brainwashed...I think it called Stockholm Syndrome. In any event it needs to be pointed out to the FRA. I don't know if the rule is still on the books but it use to be if you were drunk or had booze in a room paid for by CSX you could be charged. I would think the rule would stand for salaried personnel as well as contract personnel. I would also think that staggering around Terra Haute, IN, driving while under the influence and frequenting a strip club where drugs and prostitutes may be obtained would be considered "Conduct Unbecoming" an employee of CSX and result in them being charged...or is there a double standard here?

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Employed in other capacity, for N/A Posted: 27 September 2012 nomo looks like you might have stirred up some bees with that last post. It also looked the poster was making a threat against someone with a test failure. Bet it was written by a supervisor. They are the only ones who would threaten someone with a bogus test failure just to get even or "hush" someone up!

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Locomotive Engineer, for 20-30 years Posted: 26 September 2012 NoMo Your CIA OP pipeline might get a test failure if he or she does not keep that trap shut. It is only a improvement from the last GL RFE who did alot worse but these boys are not home grown or from the CONRail. Wanna bet they do not get a bad audit? They are in charge until something bigger happens. NoOnE GiVeS A Flying Fuck.

Name: NoMo E-mail: Employed as: Other, non-employee, for N/A Posted: 26 September 2012 Word has trickled down from the Terra Haute branch office of the CSX-CIA,the officials aren't the only ones that can hide in the weeds, that the new GLD RFE and his side kick TM Dobson were tracked to a local Strip Club at 1930 on Sept. 25. According to the report I received, they were both staggering leaving the club and could barely stand up to open the front door of the Comfort Inn & Suites, where they were staying. Now didn't the last Division RFE Danny Jerrell recently get fired for claiming reimbursement for expenses that were not company related? I can assure you, drinks in a "Gentleman's Club" ain't cheap and the "gratuities" are sky high...I just wonder how they paid for their night out, or how it will be charged on their expense report? Unless they paid cash, they'll be explaining to the auditors or their wives, if they're married. How would you like to be a fly on that wall? Keep your eyes open guys and those reports of bad behavior coming in. I think the GLD management has opened a can of whoopass and it back fired!

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Employed in other capacity, for N/A Posted: 25 September 2012 Corp office less than year So whats your point? So the company has great quarterly earnings...so they are working on improving their greenhouse emissions..... so they get involved in every charitable orginization out there in order to get a big pat on their back and look good in the public. Great news for the stockholders and the investors. You want to really impress me and the people who are the real back bone of this company? You want to impress the people who move the freight all hours of the night and day and sleep in hotels away from their families? You want to impress the real workers out in the feilds putting the freight together to move across this great country..... The workers out in the freezing 30 below zero rain and sleet and the 115 degree heat all hours of the day and night? You really want to impress us???? Then come back on here when you have a post from ANY BUSINESS MAGAZINE that states that csx has been voted one of the top 10 places to work by its employees because of their ethical and professional behavior towards their workers. It cant be a survey taken on the peanut counters, stuffed suits or secretaries behind the desk either. It has to be from the real workers in the trenches. The ones who build and move the freight 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Dont expect to be seeing you very soon! Dont expect to be seeing you soon!

Name: E-mail: Employed as: Corporate office, for Less than 1 year Posted: 25 September 2012 CSX Named to Dow Jones Sustainability Index for Second Consecutive Year JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – September 19, 2012 – CSX Corporation (NYSE: CSX) announced that it was named to the Dow Jones Sustainability Index (DJSI) for North America for the second consecutive year and was the only U.S. railroad listed in 2012. “Sustainable practices improve today’s operations and position CSX for a strong future,” said Michael J. Ward, chairman, president and chief executive officer. “CSX remains committed to transparency and accountability and will continue to implement new sustainability strategies as our business grows.” CSX received high marks for its work in climate change strategies and environmental management, as well as in corporate governance and human capital development. CSX recently committed to reducing its greenhouse gas emissions intensity 6 to 8 percent by 2020 and announced in early 2012 plans to hire approximately 3,000 new employees this year, primarily to make up for attrition. In addition, the company expects to make $2.25 billion of capital investments in 2012, including a number of critical infrastructure and strategic initiatives. “Over the last several years, we have witnessed a continued and growing interest in long-term investment strategies that include sustainability investing,” said David Blitzer, managing director and chairman of the S&P Dow Jones Index Committee, S&P Dow Jones Indices. The DJSI is a partnership between the Dow Jones Indexes and SAM Sustainability Assessments which rates the top corporate performers in financial performance and sustainable business practices. Every year, the DJSI invites the world’s 2,500 largest companies to report on their sustainability practices across economic, environmental and social criteria. To learn more about CSX’s most recent Corporate Social Responsibility Report, visit www.csxcsr.com. More information about the DJSI is available at http://www.sustainability-index.com/.   About CSX CSX Corporation, based in Jacksonville, Fla., is one of the nation’s leading transportation companies, providing rail, intermodal and rail-to-truck transload services. CSX’s network spans approximately 21,000 miles, with service to 23 eastern states, the District of Columbia and two Canadian provinces. CSX’s network connects more than 240 short line railroads and more than 70 ocean, river, and lake ports. More information about CSX Corporation and its subsidiaries is available at www.csx.com. Like us on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/OfficialCSX) and follow us on Twitter (http://twitter.com/CSX). Contact: Lauren Rueger 1 (877) TELL-CSX