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I'll never forget..I had TW for 4 months. I got a couple avas approved around my RDOs to make a mini break for myself and just relax for 4 days. Week of my mini-vacation suddenly RDOs became FS and f**ked my whole shit up. Ended up working Wed which should have been my day off and instead it was my 7th day in a row(I canceled the Monday AVA because it didn't make sense to use up a single day in th middle of it). That Wednesday, completely burnt out and looking forward to my TFS 3 day break, I overran a station 😂. Thanks screw office.

They tell u in advance. U get a schedule of the whole training. Some days change here and there but not often in my experience. U will be traveling a lot. Some days u will go to yard A then yard B then yard A again. When I was in Schoolcar for B division I spent so much money on gas and tolls it was insane. So much time spent in traffic jams too.

If I were u I wouldn't wait for that scheduled date if u already cleared the hold. Go to 130 with the documents and act like u didn't have an appointment and maybe they'll put u in that Feb 19 class.

Stare the guy in the front in the eyes as u piss on the counter and then ask for a starting date 🤣

"The old timers were mean they didn't let us watch TV unless we had a picked job and we had to pee sitting down"

"In my day we had to wipe the windshield with our hands when it rained and u had to learn how to pull the break handle with your ass cheeks...don't tell me u have it rough whippersnapper"

If everybody that was miserable resigned then there wouldnt be enough crews for service 😂

Neck size is just 1 factor. If u have a big neck and are also obviously overweight then it will hold u up but if u have a thick neck and are in decent shape then it's not gonna be an issue depending on what u put on the questionnaire. I have a neck over 18 inches thick but I'm 6'3 and been losing weight so my BMI actually went down from my first physical and the neck size didn't get me restricted.

Nah that depends...I know somebody who has less than 10 years and he's had weekends off for a couple years now. He first was able to get it during PMs and just a few picks ago he got it during AMs. He's in the B and he picks straight jobs. You might also be able to get weekends off sooner if u pick XL midnights or PMs or even the refuse train. As for a piece of the weekend I know somebody who just had SM which she picked and she has 5 years in. She lost it this upcoming pick but it's not impossible to be able to get a piece of it within 8 years.

Lower your expectations people...the job pays great but it ain't gonna be all sweet 😂...if we had weekends off and flexible schedules the pay would drop drastically. I could have picked early AMs this pick and that would have been perfect for me I don't need weekends off as long as I'm working early AM and get to spend the evening at home with my kids. I may not have the schedule I want but I'm able to pick something that works for me right now. I'm 5 minutes from home and I work evenings so I can babysit my youngest during the day and save the insane amount of money I'd be paying for a daycare or babysitter. You can make it work for u too.

It's just the things u mentioned plus the homeless really. A bad day is when the road blows up and u are basically in and out all day without any breaks and lose most of your lunch break but not enough of it to put in for the no lunch. If you on a line like the 1 and do 3 trips everyday, a bad day can feel really rough. Honestly sometimes I'm tired of the grind but I just remind myself that I'm not really doing anything crazy like construction outdoors in the middle of winter and I'm making more than most new college grads. Overall it's a very good job in my opinion but u gotta be ready for that first 3 to 5 years of shitty schedules.

I used to also say "stop being negative" but u know what, tell it how u feel it. If somebody really wants this job, your posts won't matter to them. If somebody is undecided and doesn't really want it but is being pressured to do it and your posts makes them decide against it, good. They won't come down here and waste their time or anybody else's. Leave those spots for people who aren't so easily deterred by some hilarious honest reviews. Newsflash, all jobs suck. This one sucks extra hard on the bad days, but the money is great and the good days are great. Nothing like sitting on your ass for 8 hours for almost 40 an hour. And if u last long enough, in 20 years you might be able to pick a job where that's literally all u do. Sit on your ass for 8 hours getting out of having to do the one layup u are supposed to do becaus the dispatcher is your buddy. Then u can sit there sleeping on a chair while somebody who actually got his first drop in months has to do your layup because you are the "senior man". Or you'll get to have one of those jobs with a single trip and 3 hours of waa with a lunch break and just sit there on Facebook all day complaining about the complainers and pontificating about the job like you accomplished something when all u did is let time pass. Idk just me.

Not too long ago..it's all on a case by case basis. You are better off going down to 130 Livingston and speaking to a union rep who can go over to the operations training office in the same floor and talk to them. I've always heard u can reinstate your name back on a list as long as it's active unless the agency specifically rejects your request which they would do if u were considered a liability, but I've seen someone reinstate his name after failing his practicals. It really just depends on who u talk to from operations training.

I was from them open comp...idk if the poster said either way.

It means from the date u are hired. U are in title as soon as u start. File number is seniority number, just another name for it.

When I got rehired I got my seniority back, my medical insurance restored right away and even my vacation progression. Now I did get terminated and even tho I didn't pass probation, I did have more than a year in title when it happened so that may be a factor. I returned after only 5 months and I was told that if a person comes back to title within the year u are entitled to your file number and all of your stuff but like I said there may be many different factors to that.

I don't think that's why. They just haven't administered the new test yet and by the time they grade it and establish a list it could take years. If they wait that long to continue hiring they will find themselves in a huge shortage so they have no choice but to extend it again to at least have a pool to hire from.

Schoolcar needs to be longer in my opinion. Just cause somebody memorizes definitions doesn't mean they understand the signals. I've always thought that was flawed logic. I once had a classmate, who had all the definitions memorized like the back of his hand, ask me "so how do we key by a signal anyway?". That classmate is still out incident free so it's not so much a knock on him as it is that method of learning. Memorization does not equal understanding. Case in point this person and also the person back in the winter who tried to key by a home signal and split a switch. If he had any understanding of how the signals work he would have immediately realized how stupid it would be to key by a homeball, but all he had to lean on was memorization without understanding. Sad.

But they passed the signal test, how could this be? 😂

Can't find that info...did they really? Good news for my bro

I think they mean for the promotional. The open comp filing is in December.

Bro there's switching jobs at Utica that pay 11 hours and u do maybe 10 relays all day and a layup to the back and then sit around and not do shit. Not to mention relays at Utica are double ended by a switchman on each side not road TO on one end and switchman on the other like in the B division terminals. When I was YX in the A I didn't mind travelling all the way to Brooklyn from the Bronx when I got one of those jobs cause that was a guaranteed easy ass day. If I'm 70 and can still walk and not have to use a diaper why the hell would I leave something so cushy 😂

I don't mean u looking for movement for yourself...I mean you based your opinion of there's no movement on the upper tiers. With those Utica switching jobs paying 11 hours and the cushy yard jobs at small yards like 240 and Livonia hell no they not going nowhere.

U got a different perspective cause u a senior man so u looking for movement in the upper tier...in the lower tiers there's movement even if it's just people moving to the B. I had the numbers somewhere but I moved up something like 113 slots in the B call sheets and 69 in the A last pick.

I was in the B for 2 years. There seems to be more movement there because theres a lot more people so it's more obvious, but I find that the movement in both is just about the same percentage wise.