Recent content by cseasy1984

Everyone in the office is working from home at the moment, they are currently focusing on increasing the current service levels and getting dynamic testing to resume. With that said i would imagine HR will be looking into recruitment issues as soon as they have dealt with any other pressing issues.

Depending on what depots ppl are applying for will depend on how long they wait unfortunately. The depots on the east e.g. Ilford, Gidea and Shenfield are bursting with drivers, some of which are recently passed out and doing 3 months driving before moving to the depot they applied for. West...

I can say its nothing to do with brexit lol this is just the process im afraid. It can be extremely slow especially as there are so many drivers in training and in the company in general all who need to be placed.

Only recruitment/HR would know the answer to this im afraid.

Company are very good compared to other TOCs in my opinion. Training for me took exactly 1 year but that was when there was a shortage of instructors however i have heard recent groups taking 9 months so its improved. Pretty sure whilst training the money has gone up from 28k to 30k. After you...

Yea i have been qualified with MTR pushing 1 year now. Anything i can assist you with?

I wouldn't worry about the medical check too much. BMI is stupid and outdated. As long as you can carry out your duties as a train driver it doesn't matter how much you weigh. They are really looking for issues that are quite serious that will affect your role as a driver such as eye sight...

Hey all, it's good to see so many of you coming to Abbey Wood. I am a driver over there and have been through this entire process you are all going through. If anyone needs any advice or info feel free to shoot me a message.

Congrats @EmmaK I think you will be in group BD21, I am in BD20 so 1 group before you. I'm in my 4th week now and everything is going so well. It's a great company to work for and they will all make you feel very welcome.

Times at each depot will vary so cannot comment on that. You will get 50p for each ticket sold. They say overtime is not compulsory but sometimes they will lengthen your turn but this is usually on weekends when engineering works take place and they have to cancel booked turns and create new ones.

Not a lot happens really mate, the day of my medical I went to head office to hand in loads of forms like uniform sizes, staff travel card and stuff like that. After that you literally just have to wait. I haven't had anything from them except a phone call about staff travel form I have to redo...

So the day I've been waiting for is nearly here, I start on the 2nd October and just wondering if anyone else is booked to start training on that day?

Hi the shifts will be earlys 1 week and lates the next and will rotate like that and every so often depending on your roster you may have to work nights every 6 weeks or so, but that may be different at each depot. You will be guaranteed a minimum 2 days off each week and the working week...

Cheers dude I did stumble upon that earlier

Awesome I will do the same first thing tomorrow.