Great pay, benefits, and work wasn't bad.
Pros
Great pay, great benefits, work wasn't too hard, people were pretty good to work with too.
Cons
Swing shift was not easy with a family. Worked seven days of seconds, off 24 hours, work seven nights of thirds, off for 48 hours, work seven days of first shift, then you get four days out. It's not too bad when you get adjusted to it, but for me having a wife and kid, it has sucked. Management doesn't want to listen to you when you tell them that there's a problem, but when that problem gets out of hand and stops production it's the employee's fault. Safety only matters if it won't cost anything to do. If there's a problem with the tracks, and you tell your supervisor, he tells you he'll pass it up the line but keep using that track. When you keep using the track and cars derail, it's your fault because your supervisor never passed it up to management. Communication is non existent. When the superintendent comes out of his office, he doesn't know what anything is or where anything is. He will also yell at you for doing something wrong, when he doesn't know if it's wrong or right in the first place. If you take your concerns higher than him, that he doesn't know what is going on, they tell you not to worry about it. It's a very discouraging system.
