We have been getting told that the pay and benefits are so great at UP, but why is it that literally everyone I know who has left is living a happier and higher paying life with a fraction of the stress? UP can't compete with the tech market, finance market, etc. Union Pacific has lost its leadership at all levels of the company and it is now full of one type of employee...the ones that are holding on for dear life because they have been backed into a corner and their skills are soft skills. Being able to answer your phone and speak, answer an email about rail, or know some c-appy system built in house by a developer that was fired 2 years ago will not give your next company a warm and fuzzy feeling about your abilities. Continue to learn or be a second rate talent. When the company down the street is offering you a better work life balance, more cash, an interest in your future, and a career that gives you actual long term value why are you making excuses. There is a reason that when you stay at a company or in a job for longer than 3-7 years you will never earn more than below average. I put in my two weeks on 9/1/2019 and I couldn't be happier. If you are staying at UP just to have a job you are the exact type of person I don't want to work next to. Good luck UP...PSR doesn't end even after all the cuts. It will continue to be an understaffed company that will work you to the bone and expect the world out of you for your entire career. Not the company where you can fall asleep for 40 years and collect a check anymore. Just ask CSX how safe those employees feel.
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I make $3/hr more as an Automation Electrician, plus $50/month retirement for every year I work there, besides the 6%/2% 401k company match...
Layoff was the best thing for me!!! ##S—ITUnP##
@10YfLIt4-1lus i agree. i used to believe in two weeks notice, but companies like UP don't deserve it. there is no mutual respect. they want the notice, but when it's your time to go they escort you out the door like a common criminal. if you are a manager, just quit with no notice and if you are friends with the other managers tell them to do themselves a favor and don't answer their phones on their off days.
If you have another job lined up, don’t give UP the satisfaction of two weeks notice. They don’t give anyone even two minutes notice! Let them try and pick up the pieces when you announce today is your last day at, say 1:00pm. Just enough time to clear HR on a Friday afternoon.
I used UP as a placeholder. They offered a higher starting salary for a first job out of school. I used that to negotiate a higher paying job elsewhere (complete with weekends/holidays off, no unions, no on-call BS, etc, etc). This was all before the UP brand became toxic and the job market was still red-hot.
Word to the wise: don't give them two weeks notice. It does more for the company than it does for you. This is especially true for OMTs and junior managers. Give them as much notice as they gave your colleagues when they were walked out the door.
UP can’t even compete with dollar general
Never give up 2 weeks. Seriously.
Why give two weeks
You’re absolutely right ! From a NON AGREEMENT Point of view. You have NO RIGHTS 😂