Campus Life: MTA Train Operator Exam 6/6/09


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Posted: 05/25/09 06:48 PM
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Good luck to anybody taking the big test in less than 2 weeks. $26.99/hr to start, retirement after age 55 and 25 years of service, a free metrocard for life, and pay only 1.7% (that number increases periodically) of your salary into healthcare. its the best job in the city for anyone without college credits. although i know a lot of ppl with college degrees will be taking this test anyway. i wasnt any good at Poly but i was awesome in high school and this is a basic reading comprehension exam-nothing about practical train operation. anybody here taking it? its highly competitive; no one who scores less than a 95 ever gets called
  • Posted: 05/28/09 04:41 PM
    Labor unions are not that bad in my opinion. $26/hour is what the salary should be for NYC, considering high rent, if you are going to save for retirement, and so on.

    Yeah, I know "General Motors sucks" etc.

    You can get fired just because the manager does not like your hat.

    "Toyota engineer collapsed in the workplace while pulling 90-hour workweeks." Another worker committed suicide while constantly working overtime, and so on. Death in the workplace is not a rare thing there.

    I read somewhere that US government pressured the Japanese not to make software to protect Microsoft.

    Google Japanese worker suicide.


  • Posted: 06/11/09 03:24 PM
    the test was so easy a caveman could do it! laugh :D . DCAS posts the answers in 4 weeks.
  • Posted: 06/15/09 03:58 PM
    It's pretty good pay but, I went to college so that I can have a desk job. I am def not the type of guy that can stand all day and do that type of job. Also, working for MTA isn't fun at all. Tons of favoritism and racism among the workers.
  • Posted: 06/16/09 02:37 AM
    nah you're sitting the whole day. it even says in the Notice of Examination "must be able to remain in a seated position for extended periods of time". except when you're changing cars in the yard but most of your day is just sitting there pushing buttons. the new subway cars will run themselves soon so the train operator is only there in case of a malfunction (or man on tracks). the city would be up in arms if they ever try to take the train operator out of the trains. they already are b/c the MTA wants to get rid of conductors
  • Posted: 08/14/09 10:32 PM
    woops, forgot this thread was here! i forgot to tell you guys i scored a 96.25 unofficially. i went to the official Protest Review Session and protested the 3 questions i got wrong. its still possible i can get 100 but i doubt it. i remembered this thread b/c the TWU just got an AMAZING contract after arbitration. they got an 11.3% raise over 3 years, their healthcare costs will remain at 1.5% of their base salary, they will no longer have to pay that 1.5% on their overtime pay, and the MTA can NOT implement their One Person Train Operation program to eliminate conductors! pension and retirement age remain the same because they cannot negotiate that-it can only be changed by Albany. the wait is about 3-4 years so by the time i get there the starting salary for a train operator will be 62k and top pay will be 66k, not including overtime and night/weekend/holiday differentials. finally competing with dept. of sanitation and other city salaries.

    http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/12/nyregion/12mta.html?_r=2&scp=2&sq=mta&st=cse
  • Posted: 08/19/09 06:57 PM
    Jesus, good luck having the city stay solvent with giveaways like that. I'm glad I'm not living in it anymore.