The neighbor informed me that he applied to a conductor job and got an email regarding a hiring session for conductors, so I got on NS's career page and saw that they are hiring conductors for different locations. Is business picking up in other areas, or have a bunch of conductors and other T&E people just quit? Just hit me by surprise that there's over a thousand people laid off and they're hiring.
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- S. is still hiring unskilled people such as conductors, and why not, you will make poor money until you are marked up and that will probably not happen. And until then you will be an essential worker and delivering the much needed toilet paper.
NS doesn't want conductors, they won't bring you back if furloughed. The only reason they are hiring is because everyone left the areas they want to fill and no one comes back after being laid off 1 year into the job
the work probably picked up in those areas and when the company called some t & e people back from lay off those people probably found other jobs and don't want to risk coming back to the back stabbing company we call Norfolk southern
Idk how, they sh– Down McDonough last February right after I left. I was 3 days from marking up and got laid off. I keep getting transfer offers but I have no idea how they’re going to train new conductors.
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Do yourself a huge favor and DO NOT APPLY for any railroad job. It used to be that you had to know someone to get hired, but those days are out of sight in the rearview mirror. Yes, the retirement and benefits are tempting if you are out of work, but the adversarial, disrespectful manner in which you will be treated as an honest, hardworking person are not worth it. At some point, I expect to be reading bilingual Spanish/English instructions on the locomotive cabinet doors, just like the Canadian lines French/English. The US may have to implement a waiver system to allow undocumented immigrants from below our border to accept railroad jobs. Yes, the culture in todays railroads is that bad.
I mean it could be that business is picking up in some areas, but it could also just be that they laid off too many people at the points serving those areas and now they don't have enough people to work the normal trains. It's hard to say. Of course, they'll probably hire 20 conductors in hopes that 8 or 10 will make it through training and the work load.
The conductor trainee program was suspended indefinitely at the end of last year. Maybe if they all the sudden needed people at some $#!thole location and can’t get any s—ers to take the bait and accept a transfer then they could theoretically hire but.....just figure if ya haven’t got on by now ya just ain’t gettin in. Nobody is thinking about it or talking about it or they’re in denial or what have you but.......one man road trains are right around the corner.....and the unions know there’s no getting around it this time. they’ve won a lot of battles but the greedy employee hatin company is about to win the war. so once that happens you’d need around 16-18 years in to maybe still have a job. Maybe..
Tell your neighbor or anyone not to bother applying. They always cut themselves short by laying off then they need the guys and they don't come back then they hire again. In my area they are down to 2015 guys laid off. If he gets hired he will probably train all year then immediately get qualified and marked up then laid off after Christmas. It's a cycle with these people, if you can get through the first 2-3 years you used to be Ok, I got furloughed with 6 years of seniority for a month years ago even.
They lay people off and add more to the extra board but turn around and post jobs to hire more people. I have to guess they like to wreck lives for fun.
Do yourself a favor people...DON'T APPLY!! Or find yourself right here disgruntled with the rest of us!
They always do that. Doesn’t mean jack. Been doin it for 20+ years