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Classroom training is 7-3. When you get sent to the booths to observe and take over, you are at the mercy of the booth hours...and what they send you to...there is no negotiating that either. You may live deep in Brooklyn and be sent to Bedford Park Boulevard on the D which starts at 5:30am. There is no working with you if 7-3 doesn't work. You make it work or you don't keep the job. Transit expects you to make them your priority. It sucks, believe me, but it's a month. You can survive it. Half of my class went to 14th St for their metrocard training. Half stayed at 248 for ALL of the training. We were divided alphabetically for that. My advice if you hate mornings (as I do)...pick a tour that works for you in your class pick if you have the option. I was a zombie for the month I was in class but after that I was fortunate to pick PM tour. That too is dependent on the number of slots the class is given per tour on the pick. The department that handles staffing could just decide they need bodies on one tour and that's it.

Lol no problem. The job is more involved than it seems at face value. Hell, we spent a week doing manual fare reports which you RARELY do IRL.

There is no medical like there is for conductor. The drug test is all you do in terms of anything remotely medically related. Of course there's training. They're not gonna send you to Parkchester on the 6 on a Monday morning without teaching you the basics - although if that's how they broke me in I probably would have quit on the spot 😂😂. Training is 5 weeks at PS248 in Brooklyn (25 Av on the D) and if you're lucky you might get to go to 14th Street for AFC training (that's the metrocard related portion of training) - or not so lucky if you live relatively close to PS248. (I live in the Bronx and had the pleasure of schlepping it to Brooklyn EVERYDAY for class...I didn't get sorted into the 14th Street group) The first couple days is 8-4 in downtown Brooklyn - 1 day at 130 Livingston for HR related stuff, then a day at the union hall for your union orientation.

I've been down here since last April. I don't recall needing to elaborate during final processing. The firing was 8.5 years prior to that point, and I had another job about three weeks later. Their concern during final processing is more about accounting for any lengthy gaps between jobs. My husband had to explain some when he came on as a conductor once upon a time many moons ago. As long as you can explain what you were doing with yourself you're fine. It's just important that you put it down so when they decide to fully investigate your employment history they can't throw it in your face that you didn't disclose it and then they fire you over something that stupid. The final processing "interview" is not a tell me your life story and sell yourself to us on why you would rock this job traditional interview. They literally make sure that DCAS packet is filled out and they have all the documents they need from you. That's it. And god forbid I get labeled a party pooper again, be prepared for multiple trips down to 180 to pee in a cup and produce the same papers over and over again before you do FINAL processing. They're literally only up to about 500something between off the street hires and converting provisionals to permanent. Your 90 days could elapse and they'll call you...just to come back again for the pre-employment charade.

They don't hold being fired against you, it happens. Just make sure you're honest about it and include it.

Bring everything pertinent listed in the photo.

Bring any college diplomas you may have, otherwise the above list about covers it. Make sure you can regurgitate information about what you've been doing with your life since high school. I paid for an abstract of my license since I got a NYS license in 2017, they never took it, that is more for titles specifically looking for it, and having a license was not mentioned on the NOE as a condition of being qualified - for example, the latest O/C Train Operator test it was - I don't remember having to produce my license period during pre-employment, but when I became permanent they took it, presumably to run it & see if I had any outstanding tickets. (Which they will send you away to take care of before coming back) It's good to be overprepared rather than sent home for missing one stupid piece of paper. Pack your patience, they start letting people upstairs at 7, if you're there by then (I know the letter says 7:30 or 8:00) you usually are in and out with waiting for the lab eating up the most time...I was always out by about 11, but their directive to bring a snack is good to heed. It's like a day at the DMV...down to getting your number 😂😂

Actually I was made permanent last week...not that it particularly matters or is your business, and as someone who took FOUR trips to 180 before I got hired to begin with I'm preparing people for what this might entail for them...false starts are kind of annoying. It took SIX MONTHS from my first call to the day I started work. Every time my phone rang with a 718-694 number I was like "oh snap this is it...oh never mind I just have to fill out the same packet for the third time and pee in a cup again" Off the street means people who were never provisional to begin with. People retire and take promotions out of stations with regularity but there's not a huge lack of people. They will keep people waiting on pins and needles for months until they need them plain and simple. Now that the list is certified they are obligated to work in some semblance of sequence. If you want to live in some lala land about the speed at which TA moves, be my guest. Considering until about last December they were CUTTING booths they certainly don't need 1000 clerks. That's common sense.

Don't think that because they called you that quickly for pre-employment that the rest of the process will go as quickly. You might be going 2, 3 or 4 more times before you actually start. Bear in mind that they are processing provisionals as permanent as well as hiring off the street. Drug tests are only good for 90 days and they certainly don't need upwards of 1000 clerks immediately.

No, just be honest. I got fired from a job when I was 20 over some total nonsense and the subject never came up. I listed it in the pre-employment packet and the 21 page packet they give you as homework when you go to pre-employment.

Yes, they will send you home for any unpaid parking tickets.

I believe, much like the exam fees, if you're on public assistance they waive the fingerprint fee.

Back in the day they used to just dock it from your first paycheck.

Mine was $87. Call or email the person who sent you your final processing email and ask.

Once the list is established they are supposed to call in order. As for the vacancies: 6601 has 30k people on the list and they were originally approved to fill 200 vacancies. Honestly...the 300whatever vacancies they have certification to fill right now is probably about how many provisional clerks they have right now. Nobody has indicated to us how we will actually be made permanent. I know it is supposed to be in order based on list number and they are supposed to go back and re-offer the permanent position to people who may have declined earlier. With my list number, I'm not worried about my job but this whole thing is still a convoluted mess.

Heh the latter re: customers I didn't know about.

Station agents are not considered safety sensitive and are therefore not subject to randoms. You can still be sent for reasonable suspicion.

All hiring that happened prior to establishment of the list was arbitrary and not based on the list number. When they hire in order, the lower your number the better.

Go back in the thread, I don't feel like rehashing it. Shenanigans ensued...my tip: make sure your email is 195% indisputable. FWIW when I call DCAS it says I'm on an outstanding certification as well - all it means is your info got kicked to transit. Now that they have to hire in order people in the 700s are getting pre-employment papers, so if your number is much larger than that it might be a while. There is also the whole thing where those of us already here have to be made permanent...I'm not particularly concerned since my list # is two digits - so that should be taken care of soon, but there are people in the 1400s already working here as well. They didn't hire in any particular order provisionally and I would be willing to bet money that this whole thing will continue to be a mess for a while.

Starting pay is $21.89 and tops out at $30 or $31 after 5 years.

Everyone got that email whether they deserved it or not. I had been working there four months when I got it.

Not 100% sure how it works since they hired in no logical order provisionally. My list # is double digits and there are people who have been down here for 10 months longer than me with a list # of 1400-something. I know we are being made permanent in list order...I'm not sure how they plan on dealing with those who never got called provisionally to begin with.

Ever hear the old adage about the railroad: "Believe half of what you see and even less of what you hear" You can't make all booths part time - that's just stupid...not to mention transit is obligated to pay OT after 8 hours a day...there are very few jobs with more than 8 hours. You can't run a booth between the hours of 10am and 6pm and that's it...and do you REALLY think they're gonna magically start paying a ton of people OT?

In a nutshell: The good outweighs the bad overall. There's the general good and bad supervision and coworkers you have at any job. Depending on where you work the amount of begging for rides, fare evasion and entitled attitudes of passengers gets irritating quickly. People can, will, and do cuss you out for things out of your control. People will threaten to bang you in for dumb things. 2nd booth ever - about my 6th day on the road some lady got super belligerent when she handed me a voided metrocard that she couldn't refill and demanded to know the when/where/how/why it was voided...which is impossible to tell. "I'm going to report you..." - I told her "You're perfectly entitled to do that, write down that badge number and call 511" and she made a super dramatic show of taking a picture of it and writing it down. Nothing ever came of it. Ironically now I get that station on a fairly regular basis since the PM job is vacant...and now I have some regulars. There's a little old guy who comes and talks to me every day and asks how I like it and stuff. I like getting to know some of the customers like that. You also will get people who profusely thank you for helping them with something seemingly simple. I will say I get more of that outside of the booth during GO's and doing customer service than I do in the booth. The one time they gave me Rockefeller Center (which isn't as sales busy as you would think - just a LOT of tourists and touristy questions) a native complemented me after she stood in line while I helped a super confused tourist couple... "You are the nicest and most patient MTA worker I've ever seen! Don't ever change!" - you learn to sock those moments away for when the obnoxious passengers grate on your nerves.

Meanwhile they're cranking out classes left and right...it's doubtful layoffs will ensue.