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I was put on medical hold in november. I had to get a note from my therapist saying i wasnt homicidal/suicidal, but she was in italy for 2 weeks. When i finally got the letter in mid december i was about to close on a co-op i bought and my lawyer advised me not to "quit my job" until we closed on the co-op so i held on to the letter until dec 28th. Then i had to schedule an appointment with the MTA psychiatrist to get evaluated, and for whatever reason they couldnt schedule me until this past tuesday, the 15th. Then i went back to get officially cleared today and got the bad news

Well, i got some pretty shitty news today. I got cleared from medical hold then found out that DCAS took my name off the list without permission because i took too long to get off medical hold. So i went immediately to 1 Centre St to get my name restored to the list. All of you will be senior to me, as they said i wont be called until march or april. This means no jan 28, no feb 25, no mar 25 for me

Ok, heres one for you guys. I went to the MTA psychiatrist yesterday. Everything went well, he said im cleared, all they wanted to know was that im mentally stable. So i go down to livingston this morning and they dont have the fax yet! Ok fine, but the lady said it could take two weeks??? I have to call the "mac" number before i go back to make sure they have the clearance from the doc. I'll miss the next class if it takes 2 weeks!

Ok, so my 90 day drug test will expire by Jan 28th. Should i ask them to give me one soon?

I hope youre right

also, if i do get sworn in on Jan 16th, it will be exactly 90 days from my drug test on Oct 19th. should i ask them to give me a drug test before then to avoid a week delay in waiting for the results? or am i good with EXACTLY 90 days in between? http://www.timeanddate.com/date/durationresult.html?m1=10&d1=19&y1=2012&m2=01&d2=16&y2=2013&ti=on

is there any possibility that the January class would start before Jan. 15th? im on medical hold for antidepressants and i have to see the MTA psychiatrist just to make sure im not homicidal/suicidal/etc. but the appointment they gave me is Jan. 15th. so the earliest that i can get sworn in would be Jan 16th

If "break you" means not getting the job, it sounds like everything will break you. 3rd rail jumper, overrunning the station, not scoring 100 on the signals test. This is why they need 11,000 applicants to only fill a few hundred positions

No, i read in one of the TWU contracts that the first week is minimum wage. These guys say its 2 weeks. Either way, its true

Why???

Are the first two weeks of schoolcar minimum wage? I keep reading that on here, hopefully they changed that

Im in the same sweet position with my medical hold. Im in the 250s and i'll probably be in a class with some 400s. But shhh, if too many people do this they wont let us pick our own divisions anymore! (Im guessing)

Is there really a train operator liasion? Lol

hey, i didnt realize that OTO hours are paid in time and a half too! http://www.twulocal100.org/sites/twulocal100.org/files/RTO%201004%20oto.pdf " When you bank OT, you are credited with the hours worked plus the bonus. In other words, if you work an RDO for 8 hours, you can bank 12 hours (8+4)." thats sweet!

are there really 11 hour jobs out there? i was under the impression that the cut most, if not all of those after the budget cuts to kill the overtime

the way it was explained to me, you can bank the overtime as "overtime offset", and really only have to work 40 hours a week, assuming you live within your means!

List # IS seniority

yeah, they told me to bring food! lmao i guess i'll be there all day

list #250's, medical thursday at 7:30. guess i gotta start that damn 21 page application, ugh!

*voice of The Hives* Hate to say I told you sooo!

maybe that person wasn't a conductor yet in 2009

But they still let you know that day if you're hired, right? Assuming everything is good, of course

so it IS true that after final processing you dont have to take the VERY NEXT class if its not convenient for you

so does that imply that we in the next batch aren't going back until late december?

Oh ok, i'll check it out when i get home from work