Thinklikeamango

On 7/29/2022 at 10:42 PM, HardWorkin said:

How long does someone have to wait to get like a Friday , Saturday, Or a Saturday Sunday , I know those types of day offs were for ppl with high seniority , doesn’t hurt to ask 

you guys get consecutive days off right ? 

Yeah those days are usually seniority. There's a person here with Friday/Saturday that got hired in November so it can happen but after that person the next person with those days off has 3 years. Saturday/Sunday 5 years. Sunday/Monday and Thursday/Friday are usually available.

And yeah our days off are consecutive 

4 hours ago, NBTA said:

I hope I get overnights, depending on what happens, it’ll work out for me, and hopefully sometimes I get bumped out of GC sometimes to explore out.

You'll be alright wont get bumped out depending on what days off you get you'll be safe .

7 hours ago, NBTA said:

Really?

Yeah especially overnight we all have a good time working with eachother. We got a good group of people.

5 hours ago, HardWorkin said:

Nice that’s awesome !!  Plus weekly pay . Where can you find this info online? 
also I have another question and this is important to me, would you say the work atmosphere is a good one, is it family oriented? 

One of the best atmospheres I've worked in. All the guys and girls here are awesome and we all get along, we're like family once you get to know us.

3 hours ago, NBTA said:

But I am to the medical and physical test. 

If everything is good your basically hired ! Congratulations. This is the last step before your start date. they probably didn't mention the bump in pay since we won't get it till September.

1 hour ago, HardWorkin said:

Nice 

starting pay was $22.93 what it is now? 

24.11 I believe?

9 minutes ago, HardWorkin said:

 Top pay is 34? I don’t remember it being that much on the last job posting they had in April.. I honestly appreciate the weekly pay. 

Yup they just gave us another raise. so the new rates are effective September I believe.

1 hour ago, NBTA said:

Isn’t it more money?

We still get paid pretty generous for what we do. Current top pay for regular terminal appearance is 34.45 and for operator the rate is 36.19    (operator is garbage truck, power washing, recycling, anything that involves driving a utility vehicle around the terminal)

No currently our union doesn't offer night differential, I've heard talks about implementing it when contract negotiations come up.

Most of the new people come straight to overnights

On 7/24/2022 at 8:28 AM, NBTA said:

Took my exam at the middle of May, found out I passed on June 1st, and since then went through a background test and recently, the interview. Hopefully i hear back this upcoming week if I got in or not.

They won't tell you if you got in or not but those who make it all the way to the interview usually are hired.

On 7/14/2022 at 10:17 PM, Altezza said:

Have my conditional new hire medical coming up soon. Been through a rough couple months dealing with family losses and have had 2 occurrences of high blood pressure during my last few doctor visits. I say it’s due to stress which led to poor eating habits…that changes now though with this opportunity.

will hbp be an issue during the medical?? 

Current MNR employee, when I did my medical for my position in 2019 you couldn't be over 140 I forgot the 2nd number but yeah, bananas, cinnamon, beets all help lower your blood pressure try and eat some of those prior to your appointment I drank a lot of beet juice.

I believe they do credit checks for conductors only from what I know. I'm not sure about the job terminations but if you put it down and try not to hide it I don't see why they wouldn't hire you. Make sure your resumes matches the job description, look for some keywords and try to include them if the advertisment for the job goes up again which I'm sure it will.

12 hours ago, Jblaze2023 said:

Do you have to take a drug test before you're hired as a coach cleaner for MTA Metro North?

Yes.

Because of the east side access they added alot of jobs, 15+ open jobs at the moment for terminal appearance.

3 minutes ago, 2ride said:

Off topic, but have you heard anything about them sending out the next invitation for the terminal attendant exam? I’m waiting for it to come up in my email every day

I can ask around, coach cleaner ad is up right now so apply to that also if you want.

2 hours ago, Cbar said:

Hi, does anyone know if mta will hire someone if they have unpaid tolls ?

also if anyone has insight about paid speeding tickets as well.

thank you

Anything related to the city you have to make sure it's paid off. So any city tickets must be paid.

10 hours ago, HardWorkin said:

When you applied did you have application have a “passed pre screening” status? And wow almost 4 years with the company, can you share your experience so far? 
And also did you hear any news of any upcoming exams for the position? 

I think it definitely did change to passed pre-screening at one point I just can't recall when. Yup I'll have 3 years, it's been great so far I honestly can't complain the work isn't hard, you can move to alot of different jobs within our union which is TCU, the pay for the work we do is very generous and we are out of a contract as of June 2021 so we should be getting another raise soon, the overtime goes by seniority but it's definitely there if you want it some guys work 40hours+ of overtime every week. It's a great job to get your foot in or even do your 30 years at metro north.

15 hours ago, 2ride said:

Mind I ask you if most of the terminal attendants hired have college degrees or only high school diplomas?

I myself don't have a degree and some of my other coworkers I'm really close to also don't have, but I definitely know a few who have degrees.

15 hours ago, HardWorkin said:

If you remember, how long did it take from when you applied for them to invite you to the exam.

I applied back around September in 2018 and got an email for the test in November.

9 hours ago, BCDubs said:

So I applied for a position and they called me in for a multiple choice test, written exam, and interview all done on the same day. Three weeks later, I got a call to schedule for day 1 of processing. They said to wait 48 - 72 hours for the drug test results to proceed to day 2. This is where I am at right now. 

What position.

16 hours ago, HardWorkin said:

I believe I read you have to be in your current craft  for a year before you can transfer out . Maybe @Thinklikeamangocan answer this better 

Yup 1 year in your current craft to move to another. I believe conductor and engineer they want atleast 2 years so they have 2 years worth of attendance to look at before allowing you to switch over because they just don't take anyone so having a really good attendance and no write ups or disciplinary action on your record will help you alot. But I think other crafts it's just 1 year like track and stuff like that.

16 minutes ago, 2ride said:

For this position, do they need a lot of people right now? Also, how many people do they invite for testing for this position? 

Yes for terminal appearance, we do have alot of open positions overnight. Because of COVID I'm not sure how many they allow for testing at once, but back when I tested in 2018 there was about 15 of us in a room.

We got 2 new hires that just started on Friday. Keep on the lookout might be hiring more soon.

I would probably leave it alone unless your changing your resume and stuff.