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You're not getting a crappy health insurance exchange catastrophic plan. Of course it covers surgery. You'll find out the particulars when you get hired.

Pension pay out is based on how much you made...they take your top 3 earning years and average them or something...this is why you have old timers packing in the OT to pad their pension. Nobody can calculate how much you're taking home in 25 years after promotions/who knows what pay rates will be like then. You certainly will be better off than relying on social security.

You aren't given your pass until you show up on the first day.

Yes you pay for the pension, and the percentage of deduction varies based on your earnings because Tier 6 is messed up. It's a variable contribution rate of 3-6% of your pay based upon how much you make. Like I said, you can't decline medical unless you have proof of coverage elsewhere. Transit provides short term and life insurance for NOTHING and you can buy above that if you want (which clearly you don't.) but you are not forced to.

Once again, you've applied for a job that people want PURELY FOR THE BENEFITS. Not contributing to your pension is not an option. Declining medical is also not an option unless you have proof of alternate coverage. Oh, and that $121 pretax monthly? Lol you get a pass...that's yet another thing you won't be paying for here.

Transit doesn't since they contribute to your pension...but either way...

As a new hire with no crazy deductions and a straight 80hr check with no OT, your take home will be about $1300 a check, and that's after all the deductions.

You don't need a 401k, medical, or dental? You REALLY think that tier 6 pension is going to pay all of your bills when you retire? People want this job purely for the benefits alone, quite frankly that's a stupid position to take. We get paid every other week. Your medical is "free" with 2% being deducted for retirement healthcare. Dental and vision is lumped into the $30 the union takes every paycheck. Nobody is forcing you to contribute to a 401k but it's stupid not to, and you don't need to buy any additional life insurance or disability above what they offer for FREE. Of all the jobs I had, the benefit contributions are less overall for WAY BETTER than what I ever had.

Do your job, come to work, be on time, don't generate customer complaints (there is a difference between ranty angry customers and pissing them off to the point they complain to twitter or 511 - the latter is the problematic one) and make sure transit gets the money they're supposed to at the end of the day.

Yes, behave yourself for a year.

The time to fill out an appeal form was last summer if you were sent a letter about not being qualified, not after the list has been established.

If they didn't send you a disqualification letter over the summer (and I'm talking about snail mail, not the email and phone call charade) then obviously whatever you put down on the filing paperwork back in 2015 passes muster for whatever they consider qualified. Button down and khakis or similar is fine. People show up in jeans but a.) it says not to, and b.) in my personal opinion that should be used to weed more people out because they can't follow simple directions. People go on the opposite end of the spectrum and show up in a 3 piece suit...nobody's gonna fault you for that either, but it's overkill lol

By that point you've already been sworn in as an employee and told when to show up for your first day...so you basically just let the desk know you're done and you leave...and plot how you're gonna give notice at your old job after having booked off sick to go for final processing...oh wait, that was just me 😂

Depends how long it was. I'm not sure what the threshold is for questioning but I had a month between jobs and it didn't come up. Whatever you were doing is fine I'm sure, they just need to account for the gap. For example: if you had a 6 month gap because you decided to gallivant around Europe or something, they can't really hold that against you...and likewise if you just plain had trouble finding a job because the economy sucked.

It's not an interview where you have to sell yourself. They make sure everything is filled out in the DCAS packet. If you've had any lengthy gaps in employment just be prepared to explain them. Nothing to really prepare for/figure out what to ask the interviewer to seem interested in the job type of things if thats what your worry is.

I was referring to the people hired that have been here, not people waiting to be called. If weren't hired before the list was established, then you were never considered provisional as that is an appointment status. Now they are appointing people permanently. They were hiring people provisionally for upwards of two years off of this test.

Since they managed to muck this up so badly with the provisionals, its not surprising they postponed filing for the new test again. You have people who have been down for 2 years with a list number of 1500 who can't get a straight answer about becoming permanent, meanwhile they're handing out pre-employment letters like candy. Like I said a few pages back...everyone should be prepared for multiple trips to repeat the same process over and over again. A lot of those 500 hired were already here too...so aside from the few fairly recent classes I don't think they're exactly cranking out classes either. Settle in for the long haul. It's usually 20 or so people per class and I'm not sure how many classes they can run concurrently with the amount of instructors...or classroom space. I know Conductor classes took priority over us at 248. We got bounced around a couple times because they needed whatever room we were in. One can only hope for the people who file for the next test that Transit figured out what went wrong and don't repeat the charade.

I'm convinced it's a test to see who wants the job bad enough. I did three rounds of pre-employment prior to final processing.

Thus the quotation marks around free lol. There is actually a paid medical with better dental but apparently unless you have kids who need a lot of braces or whatever its really not worth it and since I don't have it I don't know how much extra it is. The 2% was explained to me as paying towards your own retirement healthcare, although let's be real, I'm sure that money is paying current retiree medical 😂

They're just going to keep people waiting on pins and needles. They can re-drug test you every 90 days if they want.

They provide your vision and dental coverage. If you look at it that way it's not so bad, ha. Medical is thru transit and "free" but you contribute 2% of your check towards retiree healthcare. Pension is the biggest deduction that's not taxes. Tier 6 sucks. My husband is Tier 4, makes almost twice what I do and sees a similar dollar figure taken for his pension...but pension reform is an entirely different subject lol

30 and change a paycheck.

Every other week pay day so 80 hour minimum check. It goes up from there - you get no lunch, extra 30 minutes straight pay, late clear for whatever reason (no relief and the person they find to take over takes an hour to get there, you get an hour at time and a half), double or working your day off is time and a half (or you can save some of it as OTO which you can use to take time off when you want) TA don't play that unpaid training nonsense like LIRR does...$21.89/hr from day one. (That's current starting pay) I heard once upon a time the first couple days were paid at minimum wage so the people that show up on day 1 and decide to leave after realizing TA owns you for a while after you start weren't getting good money for wasting everyone's time, but they don't do that anymore.

Exactly what I'm saying. The furthest south I've been in a straight booth is Rockefeller Center and I'm not sure if that was Zone 1 or 2 because it's 47-50th Street 😂 One of my takeover booths was Spring Street on the C. That would obviously be Zone 2. I live off the 1 line. For the most part they keep me there or on the A or C. I know they're desperate if I go any further east than the D line and even that doesn't happen all that often. Most of my off my line work is for OT because they tell you what they have and you can cherry pick what you want from it. (Cherry pick being relative since I'm still towards the bottom of the OT list lol - but even THAT goes by zone)

Depends. Seems like people who live in Brooklyn get bounced around. I live in Zone 1 and the only time I've dipped into Zone 2 is by choice on my day off...and it was a lunch job that started in Zone 1. Zones are Bronx & Manhattan to 50th St (1), The rest of Manhattan and Queens (2), and Brooklyn (3). Even though the Rockaways are in Queens I think they fall into Zone 3. They don't pay attention to where you live when you do booth observations and takeovers. I had one sorta nearby and two wayyyyy downtown.