A difficult job made much harder by senior leadership - Claims Specialist Amtrak Employee Review

2.0
24 July 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

The investigative work is interesting. You will see and go places that are extremely unique. You will meet very interesting people from all walks of life. You will learn develop a shallow but broad knowledge pool about significant portions of the railroad, employment, and judicial systems

Cons

Almost daily, goals and directives from senior leadership change. I spent a significant portion of my day doing metawork, aka adjusting EOLs to reflect the new thinking, pestering attorneys for status reports unnecessarily, and running around like a chicken without a head for a management team who constantly made it feel like my job was in jeopardy.

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 The pay is fairly well but after union dues in medical and taxes are withdrawn your net income makes it look like you are making at least 15 to 17 an hr.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