Dewoc19 wrote:i guess im kind of confused..... so they want you to drive from where you live (paying you for your travel) to attend an 8 hour "class filled with NS propaganda" AND THEN at a later date drive down to McDonough to go through training and get more NS propaganda? doesnt make to much sense to me
If you want the job, just DO it. Do you think you can just walk onto the property and become an expert on the job before midnight? Not to diss you or anything, but go back and read your posts. You strike people as being a complainer, someone who works harder at getting OUT of work than if you had just gone on and did a job. Someone that is looking for "angles", an undeserved leg-up. I am simply warning you beforehand, going to work for Norfolk Southern is going to be a CHALLENGE! It will pay you better than average $$$, give you better than average bennies. But you will EARN every penny of it! It is unlike any job you will ever do before or since! My impression is, (and I hope I am wrong), you will wash out or get fired---or QUIT! NS requires the ultimate in ability, commitment AND sacrifice in order to one day arrive at retirement with a secure pension. But I AM telling you that if you are here to "beat the case", "find an angle", "shaft the company", "ride the clock", you are in the wrong place. Yes, they can be real SOB's. This is coming from a retired NS man. I got thru it. My check comes on the first of every month.
If you don't want to "drive" here and there, if you don't want to work crazy hours and days, if you want a 9 to 5 day with weekends off, if you are looking for an angle,
DON'T take the job. Thousands of us did it/are doing it. Why are you special? I used to drive 140-150 miles R/T every night to a yard porter's job.
Go back and read your posts and between the lines. To me, if it were up to me, and I had to judge from the posts here, I wouldn't hire you. Forgive me if I got the wrong impression. Just trying to help.
GF