Biggie

I remember my first day when 2 superintendents were showing off that "they can get anyone fired as the pleased" or "I have the power to put you up for termination" shit is just pathetic they still do this.

OHS, MAC 1, Employment Operations, Exams Unit, Fingerprinting, Pass unit, and the TWU office are going be relocated there. The labs and pass unit are going to be operational starting February 19th.

Just to give people a heads up transit is closing down 180 Livingston before the end of the month and moving to 149 Pierrepont Street.

I heard some very ugly statements concerning this, the whole situation makes this place look like a Wringling Brothers Circus. This is going to get ugly starting from up top.

If the title requires track qualification then its most likely gonna require an applicant to pass a medical.

I used to be an MPC for USPS, mixing traffic checking and that job is gonna be a nightmare. Basically in traffic checking the shortest tour is 5 hours which are the rapid surveys. You will begin and end at 2 Broadway. The next common task are surface point checks with the buses which are 6 hours. You can be sent ANYWHERE in this city even places like College Point and you can't leave until supervision collects the work. The other jobs are 7 hours long such as G.O Support or Bus Stop Management but for those jobs you need a few years in title. As for financial compensation the most one will see in traffic checking is 900 and change bi weekly with a full time 7 hour tour. On average being in the field doing surveys you will be seeing 600-750 bi weekly. As for the reinstatement question the issue is they don't have to follow civil service laws since this is a non civil service title. Your title will be Traffic Checker (Parttime) and they will do a lot of shady stuff cause of that part time status. Such examples are is you have a paid day off you will only be compensated 4 hours instead of your regular tour hours, or having to leave traffic checking cause the hours interfere with your other job and not being able to come back. The AGS will tell everybody the day they start that if you have another job and it interferes with transits time your gonna have to kiss TA goodbye or the other job cause they want the traffic checking job to take priority in your life. Traffic checking is basically transit purgatory, you will have to deal with BS from passengers, the favoritism in that department, and the non existent union reps if you were to get into a jam. Now for the CTA promotion once you hit 1 year you get a paper to sign for cleaner. They pick who goes to cleaner. There are people who started 10 years ago and never got called and are still part time so its a gamble. The other paths that can be taken is opting to go to full time checker. which again they choose who becomes full time. Also as a full timer OT doesn't start until you work 35 hours in a week, as for part time you won't get paid times and a half until after the 8th hour so you will still work an extra hour at your regular rate. For summary if you are making decent money and full time in another job this wouldn't be an ideal choice especially if you are n list for other titles. If you want to try it talk to the post master if you are able to come back within a specific time frame.

If you need to reschedule that day you can contact the employment center and ask if you can complete your Day 1 processing another day. You most likely have a month timeframe cause thats when they are going to try processing the people they called now for Day 2 before class.

They won't be able to do that since Traffic Checker is a non civil service title. They can only promote checkers with 1 year of satisfactory probation to cleaner since cleaner is a labor class title and non competitive. If you accept traffic checker and get called for station agent you will have to resign from traffic checker at 180. Also be aware that since traffic checking is "part time" if you were to leave and try coming back to that title they may not honor that since they don't have to follow the 1 year time frame as other normal civil service jobs have. Only full time checkers get that privilege

The main reason is that their website crapped itself and has been giving thousands of people login trouble to apply. They even went back to paper applications until the 15th.

4600 is now open for filing. Looks like they want the diploma/GED by the end of the application period opposed to the date of appointment like before.

Conductor just requires a HS diploma or GED, as for T/O last test a license was needed, as for this one don't know yet TA loves last minute surprises.

Lmaoo I was an MPC before TA and left after 2 weeks, USPS is a disaster plus that title had no union representation. Convinced quite a few to move to TA and they definitely been better off since.

lol Walter Dunhams twin

Just a heads up TA just dropped the vaccination requirement for new hires as of yesterday. Only people getting appointed to titles in OHS need it. (TA Doctors etc)

Yeah that is weird, I think they already canvassed all the people who got a 95. Should contact them ASAP you were definitely skipped over for pre-employment.