Elfamoso2020

On 2/2/2021 at 3:44 PM, Jericho said:

Keep in mind the last big class was mine with 60+ students back in August 2019 and my list number was 11**. I believe the first class called in was July of 2018. So that was just one year to sift through a thousand people and this was before the pandemic.

5/27/18 was the first class called in 

On 11/18/2020 at 6:25 PM, Nishenstein said:

Any word on any classes for the remainder of the year? 

So I guess you haven’t been watching the news about the cuts that’s coming in the mta, definitely won’t be no more classes this year

22 hours ago, Brytstar said:

I hope to get in soon. I’m currently working in a NYC Health and Hospital facility. Been working here very comfortably for the past 13 years but I need something different, I’m bored. My main concern Is in regards to retirement plan. I’m not sure if I’ll be able to stay in my NYCERS tier 4, I would hate to not be able to carry that over.

You will be able to keep your nycers tier 4 when you com to transit! Just make sure you transfer everything over, you got like a 2 year window for that. 

3 hours ago, MarkGuy said:

Yeah, but they granted preference sheets to some t/o's fresh outta schoolcar--also at the bottom, but not others. Which is BS. I'm not gonna call them and complain, but I wanna vent a little. I hate weekday RDO's with a passion. 

You know what they got granted ?

You better start getting used to them weekday RDOs lol 

16 hours ago, MarkGuy said:

I hear you. Others will have diff experiences. The crew office didn't bother honoring my preference sheet in any way, shape or form. And I've seen that for others aa well. So I guess it is subjective.

You at the bottom of the barrel so of course they ain’t gon respect your preference sheet! When I first came out of school car I had Wednesday and Thursday off which made the weeks go by super super fast! Once you start gaining seniority and more classes come out after you then they would start respecting your seniority. 

4 hours ago, MarkGuy said:

Alrighty, so today was the first real day on the road for some members of the August class (not including the two who came out over a month ago). Schoolcar called some of us who only owed one or two road posting days last week, and gave us two days of road ops retraining this week. Then we made up the owed posting days on empty trains with tss'es.

 

I had the Charlie. Wasn't too bad. No calls to RCC or anything needed to be made. Bad news is, a lot of us were switched to mids with w/t off starting next week. Guess that is the beginning of road extra life.

Good luck out there and remember your lineup is gold out there! Always have it ready when doing a new line! 

3 hours ago, Jay-Oh said:

Hey man I’m just posting what was told to me by a TSS lol.

You can guarantee what you want, but he’s still down here tearing the road up 😂

But didn’t you say it was a buddy of yours in your induction class ? 
Now you saying you was told by a TSS ? 
 

With the way they super strict down here, you would see why I really really doubt he hit 3 to 4 homeballs and still be down here. 
 

You and I both know hitting homeballs down here are cardinal sins. 
he probably did something else but not 3 or 4 homeballs.

On 4/30/2020 at 6:02 PM, Jay-Oh said:

Didn't hear about the situation, maybe it was in the A division.

The way I see it - everybody deserves a chance. Of course, if I get offered a student, I'll want to visually size them up, see how they carry themselves and ask them some questions.
Students make mistakes, I made some when I was posting, it's a part of the learning process.
I recall my schoolcar TSS mentioning a notice or memo where the trainer wouldn't be punished when a student made a mistake, he was talking about it with a TO that said he was reluctant to take students for the same reasons you stated. I gotta look that document up.
 

The way I see it, if I can do it, anyone can - and they made it this far through schoolcar already, so they have to be at least semi-capable.
Also - students are protected by schoolcar, so if they mess up - it's not a cardinal sin like for the rest of us, so there's that safety net. I know a buddy in my induction group that hit maybe 3 or 4 homeballs from YX to posting, he's still down here and on the road.

3 or 4 home balls from Yx to posting! Impossible for him to still be down here ! I guarantee that. 

1 hour ago, Marv said:

Not asking for your opinion on if I should have a license or not Elfamoso. So don’t worry about me dog. You can keep your comments to yourself. 

Oh well! We need stricter laws to keep people like you off the streets and from behind the wheels 🤷🏽‍♂️

7 hours ago, Marv said:

So I have 5 DWI’s will they be ok with that if I’m honest with them? I’m not gonna lie regardless but it’s not a good thing or something they wanna see. Lol... So should I even bother going to an interview if I’m called in the next 2 yrs? List# 24**

You shouldn’t even have a license by the 2nd time. smh 

7 hours ago, FLeXxX said:

yeaaaaa so no point in going, big f up on my part

Next time hire a lawyer, don’t ever plead guilty on your tickets if it invoke points. Always hire a lawyer no matter how guilty you are.

i gotten off a cell phone ticket and an 80mph zone in a 40 mph zone. No points, tickets dismissed!!! 

Both of them i em I was super guilty lol 

6 hours ago, hh1a said:

Hi all

I forgot to mention on my pre employment letter it states hourly wage as $23.666..

Why doesn't it say $23.84?

Who else has this on their pre employ letter?

Thanks

It’s $23.84, that’s probably a typing error on your paper....I just got mines the other day and it says 23.84 on the top. 

I rejected it..

47 minutes ago, LIRRMedford said:

You get small 20 question quiz's through out school car those are 80% or better if you get below that you get marked and have to talk to a superintendent. Most likely just a talk and review and your back to learning. A second one below 80% they are liable to let you go. Midterm and final is 80% or better or get the boot. You have 2 signal tests one about 1/3 through at the simulator, and one about 2/3 through at the school. First one is 15 multiple choice and 10 write outs. Second one is all write outs. Easier then you think but you do have to know your signals.(A bit of advice, stick you the definitions you are taught, and no matter what anyone tells you stick to that. Don't write more then what your taught cause you could be opening more avenues for them to exploit you). If you get any wrong you are called in to the Managers office where you will have a chance to redeem yourself. So long as you can explain your good. If you can't and they feel you have no clue, you gets the boot. You have 2 yard practicals. 1 for Prep for yard movement, another Prep for service/Brake Pipe Rupture. Those are pass/fail. If you mess up during it and realize the mistake and go back and fix it they will cut you some slack cause you recognized the problem and troubleshooted it. They like it when you can troubleshoot.If you don't and they have time the TSS giving your yard practicals will give you a small tutoring session at the end of the day to help point out what went wrong and prep you for your make up. Yes make up. You will be scheduled to do the practical again if you fail. You will be scheduled at the Superintendents discretion since you will be doing the Yard practical retest with them. You have 1 road practical at the very end. It can be you making anywhere form 7 to as many as 15 station stops depending on how the person giving the practical feels about your station stops. It could be the Manager a superintendent or a TSS giving the road practical. By this time you would have made thousands of stops with different equipment across your entire division A or B. You should be able to hit them all. This one is pass/fail with no second chance if you fail. You stop way to short or you blow out a station your toast. I'm currently 6 months in today was in the 12/16/19 class and started  road posting(training in passenger service) this past Monday. I have come up short some and overshot a foot or so but so long as your in the area you can smooth it out. Hey its only my first week lol. Most  of they yard stuff and signals looks and sounds hard to begin with but once you start doing it repetitively it really does stick.  Hope I helped!

You hit it right on the nail! 

8 hours ago, MarkGuy said:

signals is 100 but its not as nervewracking as it sounds, per whats been said by others here--you get a chance to save yourself even if you get something wrong on paper, but can explain the signal when asked.

Practicals I don believe are 100, but 80 if I recall what vargas said.. I think youre referring to the final road practical--and I recall being told you get second chances with the practicals. And I have a strong memory, so I believe I can do it.

Final road practical that you do with a superintendent is no do-over. One big f**k up on that test and that’s it. 

6 hours ago, acabral136 said:

B seems to be the popular pick. I wonder if it's because most guys come from Brooklyn or if it's just the better division. Being from the bronx Im hoping to get A but my boy who is in the B keeps telling me it's the better division for a bunch of different reasons 

Take the A division if your live in the Bronx! That commute to Brooklyn everyday is killer if you pick the B division. With A division you’ll most likely be close to home, sometimes you’ll be in Brooklyn but for most you’ll be in the Bronx. 

15 minutes ago, JoseL1992 said:

For school car training, paperwork says gray shirt with collar, Do they care if it’s bit on the darker or lighter side ? 

 

Also, for anything in training , is this our uniform during training or will they provide us with uniform ?

Mines was light grey when I was in  school car but that’s not gon be your uniform for the entire school car, when you do your uniform fitting it should take about a week or so for the uniform to arrive then you should be good to go. 

3 hours ago, Sr18 said:

You shared enough info that I'm sure it wouldn't be hard to figure out who you are. If someone let you move a train you should keep that to yourself. You're just going to get yourself and possibly the t/o in trouble.

Transit employees using discretion and being careful about what they post online is not about paranoia, it's about protecting your job. I personally know one person who was demoted because of information he posted online and another guy who was investigated and nearly fired because of information someone posted about him online.

To you and others on this forum, please think about what you're putting out there before you post it. 

Don’t worry, he won’t last long anyways lol

6 hours ago, Bkbusline said:

Hello everyone,

Can someone help me out with this question, does anyone knows what the max pay is currently for a T/O I know it starts at 34.xx then raises to 36.xx after school car training but I want to know does it stop there or is there a higher pay scale? Thanks in advance.

34 school car, 35 after school car then 36 after 231 road days. 

Top pay is 36 and some change. 

14 hours ago, MTAHopeful813 said:

 

yea, on my first P/E there was a guy there with outstanding tickets when we were grouped in the room. the instructor let him pay it right there over his phone online and cleared him once he saw the confirmation.

damn, he got lucky, they didn’t let me do that, I went to the DMV real quick to pay my tint ticket then went back to continue the process. 

13 hours ago, MarkGuy said:

So I shouldn’t even go to pre employment unless I fix it?

No, go to pre employment. But also take care of that, when they put you on hold, you can go to the DMV down the block to pay for the ticket, then come back so they can take the hold off you so you can continue. 

11 hours ago, MarkGuy said:

I have pre employment the fri after next but recently got a ticket for a red light on my bike. Do I have to settle that before the pre/employ or before they call me again for medical?

 

I know either way ima gonna have to settle this but don’t have the cash atm.

Get that settle or else they won’t let continue after day 1, they would put you on hold. 

2 hours ago, Mtahopeful121986 said:

Good evening everyone. I have to report to livingston street for pre employment on 5/24 and was curious. Will they be reviewing our driving record? Do they disqualify on the spot for bad driving records? Or they just want to verify a license

Just have ZERO open tickets. Even a tint ticket will put you on hold. I was put on hold for like 30 mins when I went down there. 

On 5/3/2019 at 11:42 PM, MarkGuy said:

So not that hard? If you don't put it in the exact wording they want, but you get it technically right, you get the question wrong? How many questions were on it?

They want it their exact wording, you can be right in your wording and they would still mark it wrong. Their exact words or zero.

Forst signal test is 25 questions, 10 write out and 15 multiple choice. 

The second signal test is 15 write question. One question is full flagging procedures, that takes up almost a whole page alone.

18 hours ago, Biggie said:

Damn that seems rough, hell even the first time going down the road in schoolcar, stuff like this makes people really think if they wanna come down here and do this for a living, there are way too many 12-9s lately.

It’s been like two 12-9 almost everyday for the past month or so, it’s been wild 

On 5/9/2019 at 5:36 PM, nipaaaa said:

First week of road ops was rough 1900-0300 hours. Had a 12-9 going northbound into Tremont Ave. Wasn't me but my classmate. It was fortunate that she didn't see the guy on the tracks so it wasn't as traumatic. It was the TSS who actually saw the guy cuz he was in the center and told her to put the train in emergency. The body was closer towards the platform on the left side so with the shadow, my classmate really couldn't see the body. 

Last night we did the A from lefferts to 207, back to far rock, ping ponged to Euclid, back to rockaway park, and finally back to Euclid for the lay up. Had to wait another 30 mins to travel back to lefferts. We were on the train from 8 pm to 2 am, I felt I was losing my sanity.

I heard about that 12-9, you was with my school car TSS Kelly.