Boilermaker job sucks for yellow hats! - Boilermaker Amtrak Employee Review

1.0
3 Aug 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

The pay and benefits are good.

Cons

To many politics of being a yellow hat for 180 days. 80% of the time you will clean, clean, and do more cleaning. Depending on who your mentor is will be the desiding factor on whether you make it threw your probationary period. I was let go after 2 months in because of the opinion of my mentor in which I knew for a fact I was a better overall welder than. If your mentor go behind your back and say tell management that you are not doing a good job (in there opinion) then you do not stand a chance. The best bet if you are a welder to go in as a machinst.

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5.0
23 June 2026
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Pros

Very great company to work for! Great Job Stability and good benefits.

Cons

May be difficult to move up the ladder. Promotions within aren't very common.

1.0
14 May 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Great friends and Travel with plenty to see

Cons

The culture is horrible it’s a very demeaning please. They will fire you for anything. Harassment amongst employees and by management to their employees Is extremely high. I have a MBA degree and I still can not move above the customer service level. I’m a union member and you have to pay union dues to work a non management position. The union Reps work for Amtrak to so there is a conflict of interest. The union is TCU in which they defend the company 100x harder than they do their members. TCU is not organized very well. The pay is fairly well but after union dues in medical and taxes are withdrawn your net income makes it look like you are making at least 15 to 17 an hr. As far as Work culture at Amtrak it is fueled by many rumors and those rumors are more affluent then your resume .

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