This is the best comment I have seen on either the CP or CN site.

"I find the complaints here pretty funny. Were all lucky enough to have a good job to begin with, not to mention the benefits. I think a lot of people here need a reality check. Try working in a greenhouse 7 days a week for minimum wage, no benefits, 12hr days, no overtime, no expenses to get to work... I know guys doing it.....

Transfer of wealth from Canada to USA .Should take about two years.After this American CEO and his rich shareholder friends leave with all our money this may be a lovely place to work.If you think I am wrong I would love to read your comments!

Seemed good when I hired on almost 5 years ago. Thought I would have a future here. After the new CEO taking over it's horrible. More work, less money, no job security, trying to cut our pensions as well cause they gambled our money away in stocks, our union has no chance against this guy as he floods them with bs. He wants to close small terminals and therefore I move or get a new job. Well get...

they suck!!!! this company has no respect for its work force. They are a communist party

and their logo stands for treat your employess like tar paper they suck!!!! this company has no respect for its work force. They are a communist party

and their logo stands for treat your employess like tar paper

Laid off. Doesnt look good for Winnipeg terminal. Trying to make it a run through terminal. Sucks. Loved the job. But it isnt looking very good. Low rating due to Lack of effort in making winnipeg more of a hub

I find the complaints here pretty funny. Were all lucky enough to have a good job to begin with, not to mention the benefits. I think a lot of people here need a reality check. Try working in a greenhouse 7 days a week for minimum wage, no benefits, 12hr days, no overtime, no expenses to get to work... I know guys doing it.. Most people here sound like spoiled brats. Honestly, next time you look...

Enthusiastic as a new hire conductor, just for personal satisfaction and recognition from peers, even a couple low level managers. Over the last couple years I have seen people promoted after hiring on for 4 months unable to do the job itself but able to manage it? And the hiring standards themselves are lacking, most likely due to the poor turn out of applications. Ive been around for 4 years...

Im honestly surprised at the number of people complaining about CP here. I'll start by saying, I'm a new hire (dirty green vest!), so yes for you old jaded guys that do nothing but complain, I guess Im not jaded yet. This is a very good company to work for, if you can hack it! Work hard and it'll be recognized.I came from a company where I was supervisor of 200-300 people everyday, and one of...

Wow? Apparently many are using this site as a billboard to gripe about their own miseries in life. Let me start by first pointing out some issues. I am not a company man, but I have been working various jobs for 25 years, the last 5 of which have been with CP Rail. Though it isnt a perfect business, especially now, some have seemed to have lost the concept that it is a business. And we as...

Good job if you dont mind divorce, child support, alimony payments and a nasty drug and alcohol habit to keep you company in your permanent state of fog .

Worked here for 6 months got hurt came back from manulife got laid off same day don't work here not worth the disruption in your life thank god this happened now when I am still young and able to move on I hope this place destroys itself. I didn't listen to the old guys I thought they were all crazy but they are right this place will take everything from you.

So I single starred it all. They said "No employer deserves a 1 star". They never worked for CP, I two starred Pride, just because both my grandfathers had pride for working as a CP employee. Give your life to them, literally, you will be broken to pieces, less than a human being. They do not treat you like a human, you literally are a robot to them. Theres nothing kind or family oriented...

This place is brutal, getting worse with every trip. DON'T DO IT, YOU ARE BETTER OFF FLIPPING BURGERS AT MCDONALDS

The running trades are a fantastic job for someone who has no life, and is only interested in making money and never having any time to spend it.

If you have a family or are ever planning on having a family, stay away from the running trades, it just doesn't work.

This is a review of CP's non-union office roles. The yard and corp office worlds are very different. The atmosphere is good and employees have a good amount of freedom in their schedules with flex hours. Depending on your role the level of stress can be very high or very low. Generally the entry level roles are filled by youngsters out of university. These roles are fairly basic and the pay is...

Many of us in the NMC are now so beaten down that we don't know where to turn. Its completely hopeless to try and cope with the stress from management demands. Sick time does not exist. Even with a Doctors note you get disciplined for being sick. People are scared and wonder when the next shoe will drop to put them out of a job. What will we need to adhere to next in order to avoid some sort of...

company has gone from bad to worse with no input from experienced and skilled staff and management decisions made by poorly trained and egotistical shortsighted managers brought up for the most part from the trades level...

I have been employed by CP Rail for 32 years now. From the day I started I have lived a life of will I be laid off or not. Now in my 32nd year of employment I find myself looking at another layoff or midnight shift. While my service has increased, I steadily move down the seniority list due to the fact that we never hire. Someone in management woke up 6 months ago and noticed that our average age...

Laid off due to the economic downturn in 2008. Left home terminal to earn a paycheque at another terminal. Company and union won't allow me to return home. Have to quit - lose seniority and try to rehire on there - in order to go home with the same job. I liked working here at one point but I was new and naive.

At CP in the running trades there is constant whining from employees who don't...

CP would rather hire contractors at huge hourly rates for multiple years instead of paying non-union workers industry salaries to perform the same job. They trust the contractors more than the employees.

Basiculy is the epitemy of neptetisum. Stay far away ye be warned

I was recently dismissed from CPR as a conductor for 14 years due to a accumulation of demerits for not wearing safety glasses on twi occaisions in two years and booking sick before a EDO earned day off while attempting to bridge

Into the Edo. Hence booking sick unjustified. Just my two cents any comments appreciated.

Shares in ten years $ 30. Hunters gonna run it to the ground. Move far far away from the mainline. Because maintenance will be non existent. There plan to make it more profitable is a joke. Why you ask. There plan is to sell of there locomotive fleet. Stop repairing infrastructure. Sell there fleet of rail cars. Quit repairing rail cars. And hire all new hires at minimum wage

Working on the non-union side is great. Especially as a young employee, there are many opportunities for advancement due to a significant percentage of the workforce retiring. As long as you are enthusiastic and network within the organization, there are also many professional development opportunities they will pay for.

The CPR is going down hill fast. The rich are getting richer and the worker is getting poorer. (...

)!!!. We all as employees better shape up and work together before it is too late!

Very talented people. Thoughtful decision making. Excellent CEO with passion and skill to make company better. Lives it values, doesn't just say it, and earnestly tries to improve: Safety, Service Quality, Productivity, People, Growth. Excellent customer relationships focused on long term development. Profits and prosperity improve each year. Competitive salary, variable comp and benefits.

I wouldnt recommend a career at the CPR , Have worked there 34 years , used to be a great job but now (and the way things are going) and in the future it is not a job that will provide a happy life , every aspect of your family and social life will suffer severely..

I have worked here for 32 years and the last 12 yeARS THERE IS NO APPRECIATION FOR WORK WELL DONE , IM JUST A NUMBER TO THIS COMPAMY , NO HUMAN RESPECT..

Would not recomend this as a career. It is not conducive to a good family lifestyle.The pay is decent but time away from home makes the pay less than mininum wage.

33 years ago this was a good job ..with good pay and family life ..but NOT NOW..you have to work 30 days before you get 1 unpaid earned day off...but here is the twist you can only use it on a pre determined three day period each month. You get disipline for a bona.fide sickness (with doctors slip) and if you book off sick two weekends in a year you are setting a pattern and are going upstairs...

This company could care less about their employees. No time off,work all holidays. No birthdays, graduations, weddings ....etc. Employees are treated with disrespect and managment have next to zero skills.

As a Rail Traffic Controller with 33 years in, please take my advice, You have to have a university education to get a job as a Rail Traffic Controller, Take that education and get a job with a good company. A job you'll grow to love, with a company that will treat you with dignity and respect. CP Rail is not that company, and RTC is not that job!

This company is in complete meltdown mode. They lost 1.6 billion of pensioners money and now there going to make everyone pay for it by cutting our pension by 40 percent. lets not get ahead of ourselves there going to improve management pensions and cut ours. Thats just the beginning they constantly promote underachievers into management jobs who have no clue what there getting into. If your the...

Its not a life i would recommend

I worked for CP rail for 15 years as a yard foreman conductor the company management and supervisors are negligent in breaking federal laws concerning proper break test and dangerous goods paper work. My family life suffered because they fatigue you by calling you to work in all hours of the night and day without proper sleep and notice. Managers discipline employees when hurt, injured or sick...

Very poorly run company, only reason the rules are implemented is to cover managements ass, they will look the other way, or even blatently disregard rules or procedures until an accident happens, then it is your fault. As a new hire in my situation I was lucky to get decent days off, but for alot of people that were hired after me i cant say the same. The quality of training provided here is...

No life at all worked running trades for 25 yrs was a very caring and family orientated company .. Today total opposite not 1 happy running trade employee left what happened not sure ? But do not recommend hiring on at cp rail no one should have to live this way.

Here is the Untied States East Region After a train crew hits a pedestrian for attempted suicide reasons with a locomotive, Crew Management tries to force the train crew to use their paid personals days to take time off after the incident. They don't want to give a crew company approved time off to recover from seeing a bloody mess!

I would never recommend this company. They've been sailing on the original land theft/political influence peddling that they originally started with with Sir John A MacDonald. The entitlement is horrifying "Don't they know who we are??"

If mum or dad is a manager or director, chances are the 'child' will be too... at 22, or 23 years old. This place is rampant with nepotism.

There are a ton...

High turnover rate and discriminates against age. Was in the running for a job until they asked for high school certificate which indicates my age. Suddenly; I was removed from competition but saw lots of young people that weren't

Like watching a monkey F... a football! They couldn't coordinate a dog f... DO NOT APPLY here! STAY AWAY!, You don't make $80,000. That's a pipe dream. I've never seen a more mismanaged company in my life. The big shots don't even know what the inside of a locomotive looks like. Perhaps cleaning out the closet uptown is the best idea.

For anyone interested in this company let me tell you how it actually functions. Ive seen people denied a day off for best friends funerals, parents weddings and childrens birthdays. Ive seen employees bullied and harassed with fear tactics. Ive seen an excess of incompetent managers idiotic mistakes make everyones life more miserable and lose the company money with zero recourse, other than...

Experience right from the start of the hiring process has been very good. Compensation is right in line for work done.

Do no work for CPR. All i have to say.

You know it's a sad state of affairs at a company when a dismissed employee like this feels the need to come on an info site like this and pretend to be someone else to just try and bring down a top company like CP.

Kind of funny to when you think about it.

I work in one of the offices. Where do I start? Work/family balance is non-existent. The staff turnover is constant and the amount of red tape that managers go through to replace them can take over 6 months. There are no paid sick days so staff come in deathly ill and spread around germs in a small, poorly ventilated room. People are practically passing out from exhaustion. Supervisors are forced...

I work as a conductor for cp and its a good job.Being at the bottom of the spare board right now is difficult but they told us it would be hard the first few years.What they didnt tell us is getting layoffs before we were even qualified??.They spend so much time and money hiring just to turn around and lay you off .There needs to be a happy medium,It doesnt make sense to train someone for seven...

Steady employer. Never been laid off in 35 years. Pay cheque has never bounced.

The single biggest problem in the last decarde is that company has been focusing on too many things. The most important thing is to define its core product, then develop a sufficient support structure of resources and employee to ensure it is delivered...successfully. Instead there are too many micro managing narcisstic egotistical testosterone filled 'leaders' that are focused more on personal...

The department I work is is great, good managers, good team and we have a lot of fun in our roles. I like this company and hope it is a long term employer. I realize other departments have struggles, but all big companys have those bad apples working for them, one just has to work through the issues.

I started with CP in 2004 and I have seen many changes in my short time. We have no work/life balance holidays suck!!! time off is non existent, Managers bully employees. We have managers who make it their goal to belittle and punish people. Sure the pay is good but the quality of life sucks, people used to be proud to work for CPR!!!! If you go out of your way to rectify a situation and keep the...

I'm actually very satisfied of cp as an employeer, I saw all these bad comments from the field workers and that's what I heard too but in the office the environment is just great, best company from whom i've work yet, very satisfied, great salary, opportunities, easy to take days off etc...

Worst run company ever. The union just f*cks you over and gives away everything. Everyone you work with is pissed off. Time off is non-existant. Now that the big wig from the states has bought a bunch of shares, hes trying to remove the CEO and make big wage cuts, pension cuts, and the Union will agree on it 100%. Then in 1 year when the shares increase in value he will dump it and leave every...

I'm actually very satisfied of cp as an employeer, I saw all these bad comments from the field workers and that's what I heard too but in the office the environment is just great, best company from whom i've work yet, very satisfied, great salary, opportunities, easy to take days off etc...

Good place to work. A lot of old bitter whiners to deal with, who feel entitled to sit back and watch others work. If you are lucky enough to get hired on, come to work, do your job and enjoy the pay. If you want to make money and sit on your butt, go buy yourself a coin op car wash.

This was the worst company I have ever worked for! Only get a lunch if you have time, and they won't even let you leave if the building is being evacuated by a possible fire (only management please). Kind of ironic for a company whose main value is safety!~Ha! Everybody is miserable and tell you that they are too busy with their own work to help you. The main benefit is the pension, but with...

I really love the place. The management is very friendly and approachable and they want to see the employees happy. Pay is excellent.

Great company ... lots of challenging work and limitless career opportunities. Very socially conscioous. Very competitive compensation .... lots of flexibility in hours, benefits, etc .... good leaderhip and values... also relatively secure employment compared to other industries.

Most people here accurately described the working conditions at CP Rail with the exception of a few brown nosers and closet managers. Hours are brutal, Union is corrupt, pay is ok. Abandon hope, all ye who enter here!!!!

Great company ... lots of challenging work and limitless career opportunities. Very socially conscioous. Very competitive compensation .... lots of flexibility in hours, benefits, etc .... good leaderhip and values... also relatively secure employment compared to other industries.

Have family don't get a job here

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Great company ... lots of challenging work and limitless career opportunities. Very socially conscioous. Very competitive compensation .... lots of flexibility in hours, benefits, etc .... good leaderhip and values... also relatively secure employment compared to other industries.

work for CP since 2005.... the pay is good.. but all the rest... no comments...

As the previous rater, I love my job. I get paid very well. If the "pride' section was about my job and not the Company, I would have rated it 5 stars. Although I accepted the reality of railway life, this company doesn't do much to help their employees cope with it in the long run. The railway will eat at your family and intimate life as years go by. Getting a day off to catch up in these...

Let me start of by saying I do like my job.

Now that that is out nof the way I would like to say I do nto appreciate the fact we are talked down too and disrepected around every corner. I only had 3 sicks days all of last year and yet got put on the restricted list this quarter because I had 2 personals as well in the last quarter(manager approved).. Personals are not supposed to affect your...

I have worked at CP since 1975 and have never seen a more mismanaged company than this one.

When I first hired on it was fun and productive. Now most employees hate going to work and productivity is poor poor poor!

I have worked for Canadian Pacific railway as a conductor for 17 years. The prestige of working as an engineer or conductor is not like what it once was. The railway lifestyle is a demanding one with much time spent away from home. Benefits are not as good as they could be and now even the pension the one shining point is under attack. For $100,000 a year there are many other trades or jobs that...

I've been working for CP as conductor since 2010. I worked in many other transportation companies in the past and I can't believe how bad, inefficient and unorganized CP rail operates. The job pays well, lots of challenges,benefits are great but you pay the price for it. If you're young and looking for the big bucks, go ahead, If you are family oriented, DON'T WORK FOR CP. Relationship between...

Well paying job but does not make up for the harassment and lies. Preach safety until it impedes efficiency, then safety goes out the window. Managers hiding in the weeds trying to catch people not doing their job instead of helping to improve things and working with the employees to increase fluidity. I had 1 sick day last year and took another one Saturday in October, only to be called at home...

Good job, but the management is terrible.

Great job if management would let you do it. It's of little wonder how, how poorly we're managed hasn't made headlines before. Anyone, management included that stays for the pension is now thinking again. Morale is horrible- we are all acutely aware of our minimum pensionable date and are watching the clock. It's the worst it has been in my 22 years and there is no sign of it getting better. Work...

Meh, I've been here for 25 years now. This company has been up and down more then a toilet seat! I think the upper management has become dellusional with the way the railroad really should operate. Too much managament with little to no people skills let alone how to operate a simple terminal. It seems like each time they appoint one of these managers they go on a power trip and hand out brownies....

With the direction that this company is heading, I would not recommend it to anyone. Family and social life are nil compensation for being away from home is minimal and yet they preach a family first attitude. God forbid you take a day off. They will discipline you for a sick day, personal days are nearly impossible to get.

Worked here for 25yrs. Love my job, yet worst company I have ever worked for. If you want a family life, look for another job. No respect from management, treated like I'm a kid. Upper management is over rewarded for their job. Only company I know of that takes and will use our pension money then tells us they can't afford to pay a pension. Its the " Boys Club " for upper management.

CP has a two tier pay system. 2009 and later employees get paid less than pre-2009, but are expected to perform the same job duties. Management is very inexperienced. They never reward you for a good hard days work, but they'll be on your case for every little thing you do wrong. If you call in sick, you better have a doctors note!!

The one good thing about this company is that is had me realize I have dreams that I am willing to, and actively as of now, pursue in order to get out. Who wants to waste their life to a company that sees you as a number and not a human? Anyone? Bueller? Bueller?

PS: Management is a joke, and it's funny how they're hiring all these retirees to do manager positions to cushion themselves when...

Cpr is not for everyone. It's a tough lifestyle to get used to, and many people cant live with their weekends off. Everyone complains about it so much, if you hate it that much just quit. Not too many jobs right out of high school you can make 80K+ a year no problem, with the opportunity to be making 100+k in a few years. Management does not care at all about your family however, and do use...

Terrible company to work for. Upper management is like a dictatorship. The only benefit is the money. I you like money and hate family time then this is the job for you.

This is the worst run company I've ever seen managers Payed 120.000 plus to crap on engineers for useing as little as 1.3 gallons to much fuel in a 100 mile trip while we sit in a hotel at the other end of the road for ten or twenty hours getting paid after ten and they can't run trains out of home turmonals because there out of men. In therty years I have never seen this plays run so poorley the...

This is a horrible company to work for. I am a conductor of 3 years, the company is a joke in every way. Sitting in bunkhouses for 20 hours making no money is not the life for me..If you have a family u want to keep, don't even bother.

I think the company management is very poor at planning and organization.

worst management teams, lack of respect for employees and lack of care in the training of new hires.

How they make money is incredible, waiting for taxi's for up to 2 hours, trains stopped for no reason account lack of ability of rtc's.. goes on and on if i could make this have no stars i would.

Worst management team I've ever had the misfortune of working with.

No family values at all, they dont care about their employees or their families

Very anti productive,

At my orintation as a new conductor was told that CP is a family oriented company, they just failed to tell me that my new family was the engineer sitting beside me. Had a family funeral to attend and was ask for proof of relations by some puke at Crew dispatch. I have never missed a shift, call for work or booked sick for that matter. That is how CP Rail looks out for its employees. Book sick on...

I'll start off by saying I'm a new employee. Got hired on 7 months ago as a conductor.

- The pay is pretty good for the work you're doing. Only thing is that you start off at a 85 percent pay rate. This increases by 5 percent every seven months until you reach one hundred percent.

- The mood amongst the guys is pretty bad. A lot of guys don't realize how good they really do have it. Other...

I am sorry that your website would not allow a poorer rating. I have been employed here for 8 years and have been disciplined numerous times over expressing my opinion of this poorly managed company. I find that all comments in this post are accurate as they are all stories we have all experienced. The lack of respect from the top down perspective of this company is what has crushed moral. There...

Hi, I have been employed here 26 yrs worked trk mntnce,& signals,presently working running trade .I enjoy my job in the running trades ,but the managment team here is terible no people skills,family values do not exist.they have instilled a negative atmosphere in this dept.the only deptment i know ready to fire you after hiring you.high divorse levels ,axcessive away from terminal layovers easy...

Good place to work. A lot of old bitter whiners to deal with, who feel entitled to sit back and watch others work. If you are lucky enough to get hired on, come to work, do your job and enjoy the pay. If you want to make money and sit on your butt, go buy yourself a coin op car wash.

I have been employed by CP Rail, both as a tradesman and a manager for 31 years. I currently have dayshift Tuesday and Wednesday off. This is the best days off I have had in my career. We are required to work Christmas day. Of course all our management is off for the day. We presently have a manager to employee ratio in our shop of one manager to 6 employees, and that is the ratio we see. factor...

no work/life balance actually disipline you for being sick,local managements are uneducated,no people skills what so ever,and actually use bullying as a management tool.

this company is so into not what you know , it's who you now. hire managers that have no clue what the job there managing

Don't get me wrong, & it's my choice to work for CPR. but I love repairing & playing with locomotives, the thing wrong is they hire bankers, even bakers(yes bakers), the list of other useless & not qualified management at the shops, I don't think they no what a locomotive is,(or even have stepped foot on on, let alone how it works or operates). Then for the people they hire to repair them, (if...

This company harbors a go go attitude, towards profits & not towards the mutual benefits that come from working collectively with employees (helps harvest a good relationship when you treat your employees like humans beings and not tools!) They will give some crews the work for two crews, while others that the company has learnt wont be pushed around, get a good average amount of work!

They...

I used to love my job, i used to get butterflies going into work, but since dealing with the extremely top heavy inexperianced power hungry juvenile corrupt managers who are on power trips and make the job worse then better i find it harder and harder to go into work.

when there is a defect reported, why cant they fix it instead of making it worse,

the working conditions are filthy, I bet...

No work/life balance

Having put in 34 years now, I have gone through years where it was actually fun to be at work and for the most part it is still fun for me, but there have been years where it was more like a life sentence also. The company could care less about its employees and has always been that way. This is nothing new, but what is new in the last couple of years this has gotten far worse. Being harassed...

CPRail has a group of leaders in Calgary that are so out of touch with the realities the railroading I fear for it's future. The wast of money due to poor management is brutal with with no ownership or accountability for the wast. Any example of this is the buissness train that traveled accross the system reccently. The cars were restricted to 45 mpr due to age, revenue trains were delayed over...

This company is in a very disorganized state right now. Employees who are below average get promoted--real buddy system. There is such a complete lack of accountability in many departments. This lack of discipline is contributing to the company's poor performance. I hate to see things in such bad shape and really hope that it changes soon. I am in fear of the company's survival.

If you are serious about creating a positive future for yourself that consists of work-life-family balance, AND, provides you with a sense of meaning, pride, and self-worth, not to mention, a level of respect, invest your time wisely and seek out a REAL job. CPR isn't it.

Steady employer. Never been laid off in 35 years. Pay cheque has never bounced.

Good pay and benefits,can have odd hours.

Seniority dictates the job you can hold.

Use your brain and play the game, stay away from gossip and troublemakers.

Not backbreaking work in the running trades.

Playing with trains is pretty simple.

After reading everyone's post, I see a lot of negativity towards CP Rail. My spouse, uncle and father-in-law all worked for this company and starting last Monday I began training to be a conductor.

There are downfalls to working for CP Rail but I think the benefits definately outweight the negatives.

Yes, you are on-call 24/7/365 but you are well compensated for it. For every month you don't...

I am in my 34th year of service with CP Rail and I am still in shock with the poor management skills in which managers get hired on, with no experience what so ever to come down with decisions, continuously not making the right call and no adjustements being made. Don't get me wrong but this management team at Ogden shops just sucks, they will destroy they only thing this shop has left over the...

this place is by far the worst place I have ever been employed at. you get slave driven for pennies. I am miserable, I can't find work anywhere else right now and I regret ever joining this shithole company, I got laid off in the first 3 months I was employed here. I DIDNT EVEN HAVE MY WORK PROBABTION PUT IN, I effin hate this place Im joining the effin military.

I have read quite a few comments. What I am surprised about is how CN gets a better rating. The department I work is is great, good managers, good team and we have a lot of fun in our roles. I like this company and hope it is a long term employer. I realize other departments have struggles, but all big companys have those bad apples woring for them, one just has to work through the issues. ...

After 6 years with CP, I am in engineer training. I have worked hard for this company and always made my miles. I have worked safe and have never been disciplined. I say this because I am not disgruntled due to being in trouble. I am not sure I am disgruntled, to do that you have to care. I am a typical RTE who has been pushed down and broken to the point of not caring if the train i am on...

Well to be honest with you, I actually like what I do, most of the negative feedback is from the running trades, I enjoy my dept and for a guy who has had a hard life this is a decent job to escape it

If you are thinking of working here, "don't" unless you're a bum and homeless and need some cash on the short. Managers are the worst. Children Children Children and very religious. TCRC does nothing for it's members. Old boys club that like's paid time off, oh yeah baby, you know it! So do we!!! I'm soooo sorry I even started with this so called company. I'm very very tired of it, sometimes...

worked here for 16 years, do not work here you will be treated like garbage, no management intimadation, harrassment, still working like its 1911 not 2011, you will lose all your outside friends due to 24/7 operations last year was the first to work Christmas and New year and whats a long weekend. Call in sick and your call up for an investigation or pulled out if service. Do not work...

The pay is actually very good for running trades if you dont take into account the amount of time spent at away from home terminal you can make over 100k a year on the main line, or work a yard job for 60k a year. Forget about weekends or holidays its a hectic 24/7 job with extreme hours and its very difficult to obtain authorized personal time off. Front line managers are generally okay to deal...

To start, if you don't want to read this whole thing: I despise this company. They are anti-employee and of the last 30 months, I have worked 9 of them with this company. Now for my story:

I was hired by CP Rail in September 0f 2008, where on my interview I was told I would never see a layoff.(To this day I wish I had got that in writing.) I was trained for 6 months, consisting of in depth...

i hired on, then we all got laid off for 18 months. its a place of misery.....everyone is always bitching about their job, most just cant leave because their halfway to retirement and know that the skills they have as a railroader cant be used anywhere else but the railroad. i hate it....im the kinda guy that before i worked here was like, I LOVVVE MONEYY.....now that i see that you have to...

I've been a conductor and engineer for 13 years and I detest this place.I am thoroughly miserable and need to get the hell out of here.The company is appalling to work for-full of psychopathic managers intent on pursuing their own careers by dismantling yours.The mentality is lethal.I'm amazed people aren't killed everyday and its only the individual professionalism of the workers that prevents...

its a job thats all dont get addicted to the money then you can quit when ever you want

This is a prison sentence. No life,no weekends,divorce and forget family. (they) are militant slave drivers. They want you to work with 12 hr shifts,5 days a week,with 2 30min breaks from the time you step off the engine till the time you step back on...did I mention your not allowed to leave the property. Good luck even getting a break or anytime off. Yard workers can be forced to work...

I did a job placement at the Calgary head office for one month in 1998. I had spent my whole life waiting for a chance to work at CP Rail, and I was truly horrified - this company is stuck in the past big time. The company had just moved its head office to Calgary from Montreal, and it would appear CP brought half of Montreal with it. Everybody complained all the time about how much they...

I have been in the running trades 11 years, and have had it with this place, and am seeking work elsewhere. No time off, no weekends off, any accident is always the employees fault no matter how substandard the track and equipment is. If you want to go insane, they are hiring conductors right now.

Avant 1995 c'�tait une bonne compagnie � travailler pour. Depuis 1996 tout a changer, profit, profit et encore profit. Il faut faire l'entretien des wagons avec rien, il n'y a pas d'argent pour acheter du mat�riel, alors il faut r�parer avec les moyens du bord.

Quit after 11 years. Instead of listening and believing to their own employees they chose instead to believe in all the lies of an outside party. They're like an old aging dinosaur that refuses to lie down. CP talks about innovation in all their crap that they spew in dealings with their employees/customers B.S. They don't care about the customer or their employees at all. Probably the worst...

WoW, here it goes! I have worked for CP for 8 years. 8 years of blood sweat and tears. I do not recommend working for them. Benefits are horrible. Management dislikes running trades to the extreme and why, running trades do all the works! Co-workers can be nasty to each other, they have been abused for years and that�s all they know how to do, thanks to management. The hours are brutal, not...

I worked in the NMC and the stress there was intolerable. The norm there is foul language and shouting. I also found it was an old boys club. Stagnant, stale, old-school company that needs some vision and new values.

only bonus is your pension, and of course there is a downside to that too. You have to put in 35 years to get it. Very unrewarding job, nobody has any respect for anybody.

First let me start by saying I don't want to come off as a bitter employee (might happen though) just out to bad mouth this company. I am not writing this for that reason. I have been employed with CPR for 7 years now.

There are very few positives to working for CPR. In my honest opinion the negative aspects far outweigh any of the perks. I will start with the perks of the job.

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Not recommended if you like to see your family and friends. Too much time away from home.

Uphill slow , downhill fast , profits first , safety last.

Military atmosphere . unionized employees are treated like garbage.

Great company ... lots of challenging work and limitless career opportunities. Very socially conscioous. Very competitive compensation .... lots of flexibility in hours, benefits, etc .... good leaderhip and values... also relatively secure employment compared to other industries.

This company believes they can still attract people to this industry despite a continued attack on pay and benefits. They like to talk about their 150 year history. Let's look at that history. This is the company that sent Chinese workers into caves with dynamite to blow them up on the day the pay wagon was due to arrive. As far as their view of the workers goes not much has changed since...

With the terrible line-ups, poor quality of life being on call 24/7, the lack of respect or concern by managers and the poor training programs for both conduvctors and engineers (only getting worse...to save money) this company has only one concern...profit and self presevation. An outdated discipline system of demerits, the kangaroo court style statement proceedure that manipulates the wording...

The company has a major double standard they expect their employees to work with no schedule, sub standard equipment and a train line up thats right half the time. Moral is so low it can't even be measured. Transport canada would be interested in seeing the locomotive engineers that are being qualifed these days its down right scary.

Running Trades Employee

Business Model- nothing to say about that

Management Skills- Management quality is poor. Most of the managers lack leadership skills. Many of the managers they are promoting have no experience in railroading. The company tends to promote the brown nosers and those who are willing to bully others. Management is also held to a different standard of conduct compared to...

My spouse works for CP Rail. He has little to no benefits (Teenagers working at Walmart or 7-eleven have better benefits), works 30 plus hour shifts, management who often bully or threaten the employees until they get what they want, 100 year old discipline policies (militant) that berates all the crew even if only one of the crew has made an error, pulls employees out of service if they've been...

Benefit package terrible. We pay for our own BC Medical .and pay for part of our dental . Cheap for a company this big. Add 24/7 work schedule and military style discipline and no wonder so many employees are quitting.

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