RTOMan

I would guess. It says " authorize the release to City of New York of ANY information required in order to establish my eligibility".

 

In my case it will include my military medical records as well.

 

 

I dont remember filling that out thats why..

 

Heck its been nearly 12 years i might have...

The background check also includes the release of past medical records. When you get your 21 page booklet read the release form you will have to sign..

 

 

Whoa they added that?? Chit.....

Step one complete. Now for step two. I don't remember them giving a time frame for the next step. Also, if they don't finish checking your background until you come back with all the papers filled out, it seems like it could take a while to get appointed.

 

 

I went though all of that Oct 21st 2001....

 

Oct 29th i was being sworn in....

So what happens if they find out somehow later on. I will be out of a job right? I'm not going to volunteer any information but if they ask i'm not going to lie.

 

You may not be out of a Job but you will go through MAC(Quack Center) Hell for a while...

 

Bottom Line with something like that...

 

They Won't Find Out Unless you Tell Them

In regards to your work history: Go to your local SS office, and they will print out your complete history for $35.

 

 

Had to put that in Bold!!!!!!!

 

 

Good Advice!!!!

I want to know what kind of info they are going to ask in the 20 page background booklet. I would think only someone who has filled it out already can answer that.

 

 

Yep you will know what they want when you get it! Leave Nothing Blank!

Thanks RTO. I wasn't being serious about the kilt. I will not be drinking Sunday b

 

 

Good Man btw if you can start getting friendly with people on line with you good chance they will become your classmates. You will need each other during Schoolcar.

So guys, I have a question...

 

When choosing divisions, are there any pros or cons to A vs B? Are there general reporting locations for each, or are they spread out all over? Im coming from long island so I just wanted to see if either division was more convenient. And yeah I know this wont be an issue for a while with me ( list# mid 90's) but I am curious.

 

Thanks

 

 

You might not "choose" you may have to go where you are sent.... Since the Classes will be small where you may want to go is moot.

 

Put it this way if you live in Brooklyn or Queens Staten Island, Southern Jersey or Long Island the B Div works(Lettered Lines)..

 

If you live in Manhattan or the Bronx or upstate New York Or Northern New Jersey the A Div works(Numbered Lines). The 7 Line is the Only Line in the A Div that is in Queens though so thats the exception.

I'VE GOT THE GOLDEN TICKET!!!!!!

 

Report at 180 Livingston St Monday, Oct 1st at 0730 hrs for pre-interview and medical examination.

 

Guess I'm not getting plastered this weekend at Celtic Classic. Does a kilt count as business casual?

 

 

No i suggest you come without wearing that or they will look at you real quick and its "medical hold".. Oh P.S NO Drinking before!!! They test you for alcohol and drugs..

 

Good luck cant say welcome yet till you are in Schoolcar though...

Extra extra life means this:

-You will learn your days off (RDO's) for the following week (Sunday through Saturday) on FRIDAY. You will also learn your tour (AM's - all jobs that week start between 4AM and 1159AM, PM's - all jobs that week start between 12PM and 959PM, or MIDNITE's - all jobs that week start between 10PM the night before and 359AM).

-You will learn your specific assignments (reporting time and reporting location) 2 days in advance, as well as a job, if you have been assigned one. Any reporting time that falls within your TOUR for the week is fair game, as is any reporting location in your division (A or B)

-If you have not been assigned a job, you are given a reporting time and location to be "on the board" aka available. If you are on the board, you may sit for 8 hours and do nothing. However, at any time during those 8 hours, you can be sent anywhere within your division (A or B) to pick up a job, which does not have to belong to your tour, but must start during your 8 hours. You can also be asked to do a trip (ie not work a whole job, just work part of one), deliver mail, etc. When you report on board, you will not know what time you can reasonably expect to go home, nor will you know where you will be when you finish.

-You will, as a result, often get short turnarounds between jobs. You are entitled to 12 hours off minimum when extra extra (not the usual 8), and the crew office often likes to push you to do less many times. You have the right of refusal if there are less than 12 hours between jobs, however, even with 12 hours off between jobs, that does not count your travel time to go home.

-You can be assigned non-road jobs like platforms. Train operators can be assigned to switching in the yards or in stations.

-Your days off and tour can change from week to week. You will have no prior warning when this occurs...you will find out on the Friday the week before. This means if you are sent midnights, you will know slightly more than 1 day in advance, and you will also find out your reporting times and locations and job info about 24-36 hours in advance, instead of 2 days because this "is" 2 days technically.

-Your days off can be split (you get Sunday, and then the following Saturday). Also it's possible to work up to 10 consecutive days (they are not supposed to do this to people, but it could happen...needs of the service).

-You can lose a day off due to a tour change. If you are working a PM job on Friday night, say from 3PM to 11PM, have Saturday off, but find out you are midnights and have to come in at 10PM Saturday night for your Sunday job....is Saturday really a day off?

-Since you don't have enough days at a given location, you won't get a locker. You have to carry all your equipment to and from work every single day. You will also have to prove yourself at every location to which you report as you won't be familiar with local supervision, and just as you start to, the supervisor's preference pick will go into effect and that will all change (their picks don't line up with ours).

-All of this makes planning things that require advance notice very hard - doctors and dentist appointments, family visits, significant other, looking for an apartment, friends/social life, travel on days off, etc.

-This will continue until you have enough seniority to pick a job.

 

You got all of that rocky072??

That's pretty much how my current job is now and has been for the past 3 yrs. I never know what my days off are until my boss puts out the itineraries every Wednesday. I'm also on call 24/7 as an ops manager.

I have heard those stories as well as long as you got the Mindset for the job you will do fine, ill say it again and again NOT everybody can be a Train operator no matter how much they dream about it...

 

Those are real facts i came from Off the Street way back in 2001 i seen it all with us Open Competitive folks seen it all...

 

Hopefully i will get a few of you folks as Students...

 

Oh and One more thing...

 

If any of you folks go to the A Div..

 

BEWARE 145TH STREET!!!!!!

I handled two different crew offices, still in the game.

 

 

Yep now let one of these T/O's who started with this list comes bellyaching here about "How the Crew Office treats me" ill let em have it LOL....

A small price to pay to be able to do something you've wanted to do since age 5

 

If yer single (like me) you deal, i Did.

 

I known of marriages that got broken up due to the Extra Extra Game just keep that mindset and you will be fine...

 

Having no life will continue while you're extra extra, no set RDOs or tour.

 

Still if the mindset is right one can handle it..

 

Thats the key though you gotta come down here with that!

4 years of waiting and having no life are over!

 

No not really,having no life will continue...

 

That is if you make it past Schoolcar and out on your own...

 

 

Congrats...

Forgive the small type folks..

The promotional list for Train Operator has been exhausted. We are hiring 40 T/Os on 10/22; 40 T/Os on 11/12 and 40 T/Os on 12/3. they have to be coming from somewhere. Therefore, the open-competitive list has not been terminated. The people at the top of the list should be getting called for medicals any day now. Along with this , we are also hiring 10 C/Rs on 9/24; 20 C/Rs on 10/8; 20 C/Rs on 11/12; 20 C/Rs on 12/3; 12 ATDs on 10/1 and 10 TSSs on 10/1. Divisions will be announced for all hourly positions on the Tuesday AFTER hiring. This will be the only time I will put this out, so if you need to know, copy this post to somewhere you can find it. You may now all go back to your rumor-mongering.

 

RIGHT out of the Schoolcar Horses Mouth!

Im just hoping those Open Competitive T/O's dont answer RTO questions on tests like i see some folks here do, or they will just be wasting time because they will fail right out of Schoolcar...

My fault. Was that the only reason comments were made about addresses and crew rooms?

 

If that was the case then I do sincerely apologize to everybody for causing such commotion

 

 

No problem got ya!

This is in a large font only to get everybody's attention. I am not yelling.

 

Actually I only discounted the recovery times to make the running time calculations easier. I did not mean that there would actually be no recovery time or negligible recovery time. Whatever recovery time there is now would mostly remain the same. My apologies if there was confusion there

 

 

If that would have been in your first post then there wouldn't be any whats? From the Ones who actually move or used to move the trains, just saying...

This is all discounting recovery periods and the reason for this proposal is to improve weekend service on the Nostrand Ave subway, particularly those times that the does not show up for almost 20 minutes, which is something I have noticed on several occasions. The stations along Eastern Pkwy and Livonia east of Franklin would also benefit, but 148 St-Lenox and 145 St along with the stops from 135 St to Franklin Ave would lose out (one less train per hour). Although, the are not all that crowded on the weekends, especially the

 

64 minutes = scheduled one-way running time for the weekend , 128 minutes, round-trip, assuming no recovery time

 

65 minutes = scheduled one-way running time for the weekend , 130 minutes, round-trip, assuming no recovery time

 

from 148 to Flatbush every 15 minutes instead of 12: Rerouting it to Flatbush means a 5-minute decrease in running time in each direction, 10-minute decrease for a round, resulting in a 118-minute round trip. Currently 128/12 = 10.67 trains on the road, proposed 118/15 = 7.87 trains on the road, effectively 11 trains should be reduced to 8

 

from Woodlawn to New Lots, local Franklin to New Lots: 12-minute increase in running time in each direction for the Utica to New Lots section plus a 2-minute increase in running time in each direction since it would run local from Franklin to Utica, adds up to an extra 14 minutes one way, 28 minutes for a round trip, resulting in a 158-minute round trip. Currently 130/8 = 16.25 trains on the road, proposed 158/8 = 19.75 trains on the road, effectively 17 trains should be increased to 20. Since the lost 3 trains while the gained 3, this proposal should be cost-neutral

 

Comments are welcome and anybody who thinks I am off my rocker for posting this can go on ahead and scoff until kingdom come (as has been done before), but it is pretty bad to wait 20 minutes for a train sometimes when the thing is supposed to show up every 12 minutes and I figured I would post this suggestion since others have been trying to figure out how to improve weekend CPW and QB service

 

 

 

No comment....

It's funny but now I've been check my mailbox every evening since I heard that their right around the corner from 8098.

 

 

If the class is supposed to start on the 27th Someone should have gotten a letter not sure if said person posts here though...

Where did I say that he said they were going someplace else?

 

So your statement was not just saying a TA Worker said they was going to ENY then?

 

Just cuz a TA worker told you where its gonna go doesn't necessarily mean it's gonna happen.

 

^^^^Your Words^^^^The Set went to ENY to get cleaned So about that reading posts thing.. As you were...

STILL waiting for somebody to say what TA Workers said they was going someplace else besides ENY...

Just cuz a TA worker told you where its gonna go doesn't necessarily mean it's gonna happen.

 

Im sorry i cant navigate through all the hub bub but what TA Worker said where that set is going beside ENY to get Cleaned?

No because it has not happened yet, or it my not happen. Conversely it could possibly happen. This means that their are a lot of gray areas in this type of information; facts by their very nature do not have many gray areas.

 

Uh huh i see well when i find out ill let you folks here know..