Vantaggi
401k plan is matched 100% dollar for dollar. No other pros...NONE!
Svantaggi
The company is run with an iron fist. Upper management are mostly rejects from real railroads. Class 1 railroads won't hire these people anymore because they are failures, so they come to RJC . Every person at the Manager level is scared to death of upper management and will follow through with any directive given without asking a single question even if the directive is against RJC policy, FRA regulations, or the law. RJC is a construction company first...and they are hacks at best. The actual shortline divisions are basically " toy train sets" for the upper management to play with. They put zero money into the infrastructure unless its being matched by government. They seem to take care of the divisions and employees that are close to corporate headquarters in Kentucky. All the buildings are new and shiny with pieces of equipment all painted up nice and pretty and strategically placed so everyone can admire it. It is clear that image is the most important thing at RJC. Everything is painted bright shiny red and the company name is plastered all over anything they own. Most of the equipment outside of the state of Kentucky is all junk, unsafe, worn out and falling apart, but it has the prettiest red paint you have ever seen. When Craig King was appointed CEO we were excited and hoping that this former railroader would come in, take a look around and start making changes......umm nope. As a matter of fact in the time that Craig has been with RJC he never visited our location once. I think a certain level of management is keeping him away because this place is in shambles. The entrance roads into the yard and office is full of pot holes and slowly tearing and beating our vehicles apart. All the buildings are run down and falling apart. None of them are painted red and there is ZERO signage in place. I think if Mr King would see this place he would be very confused as to why it looks like it does. When workers from Kentucky come into town to assist us they can't believe how run down and old everything is.