The Honeymoon's Over - Anonymous employee Amtrak Employee Review

3.0
5 May 2013
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Fairly stable employment Good benefits (for those who care about such things) Nice work if you like to travel

Cons

Deductions take an otherwise decent paying job and reduce it to a barely average salary. Nepotism, favoritism and politics run rampant and destroy opportunities for 'fair' advancement into other areas of the company. It also keeps and promotes incompetent employees who would/should be fired instead or at least not promoted. Also if you're cutting hours at the lowest level, make sure to reduce middle & upper management's pay too!

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5.0
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Pros

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Cons

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1.0
14 May 2026
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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 The pay is fairly well but after union dues in medical and taxes are withdrawn your net income makes it look like you are making at least 15 to 17 an hr.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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