Union Pacific Employee Reviews about "call 24 7"

Pros

Base pay and bonus at the end of the year are good. Having the ability to lead a team and make positive changes is empowering.

Cons

Senior leadership has a culture of management by fear. You will be cursed at, belittled, and berated at times. Work life balance is abysmal. You are told you have off days but that’s really not the case. Your phone will ring 24/7/365. There is almost zero recognition for performing well, but lots of negative recognition for anything else. You are easily replaceable and depending on your direct management you won’t have much support. I often find myself laying down as soon as I finally get home for a few minutes just to make my blood pressure reduce a little bit.

Pros

Pay and benefits Interesting people to work with

Cons

24/7/365 work environment so you'll normally work a lot of unusual hours with odd days off. Very little to no regard for employees' safety, well-being, physical/mental health. Usually a lot of hostility, workplace bullying, unrealistic expectations, failing equipment. The pay and benefits are nice but only because they're union-negotiated benefits. You have to really decide if the lifestyle, sacrifices, and toxic work environment are truly worth it.

Pros

Pay and benefits are amazing

Cons

On call 24/7/365 with no guaranteed days off. Rotating schedule actually means you can work all 3 shifts in one week. Not knowing your schedule for the next week til Friday evening and then it can change daily in spite of that. Rapidly adding responsibilities to dispatchers at such a pace that they can't do the job well and then holding them to unattainable standards

Pros

Good pay and benefits and good time off in construction

Cons

Maintenance is on call 24/7 unless there are multiple maintainers then they rotate weekends

Pros

give your life away for 90k a year in Chicago

Cons

on call 24/7, work holidays, no positive treatment as an employee. You are an ant in a farm. But if you can survive the first 10 years it gets a little easier!

Pros

Pay Insurance Easy of work

Cons

Managment is lousy and lost You’re just a warm body to fill a job On call 24/7 for basically your whole career No life

Pros

Retirement, Insurance, Meet New People, Travel

Cons

Job Stability, Bumped, Awats, On-Call 24/7

Pros

Good benefits, retirement and pay.

Cons

On call 24/7 , no set schedule and with my assignment not being off holidays. The abseentism policy is terrible.

Pros

Unsupervised work environment, able to make my own daily schedule, decent pay

Cons

24/7 on-call environment, little to no direction or recognition from senior leadership

Pros

Pay and benefits if your a agreement employee, but we will see how long that last with new contract negotiations going on

Cons

Hostile work environment, no schedule, on call 24/7 but yet get penalized for having to take off to take care of family/personal obligations, making trains too long is extremely unsafe, upper management will smile in your face while stabbing you in the back, and completely forgotten how to railroad