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Money isn't bad either, compare that to being micromanaged in some call centre for £14K with a bunch of earnest tarts on £16K looking down their noses at you. :D
Worked in ticket offices years ago and hated it, it's the antithesis of being a Driver, you're a battery hen in a goldfish bowl at everyone's whim, the job requires high levels of concentration but little actual intelligence, booking clerks should be remunerated far higher than they are...
If it's the SHL test I think your're referring to, 128 statements with options ranging from strongly disagree to strongly agree, it's a complete sham. I'm certain that TOC's have to fill quotas for numbers of applicants to show the Dept of Employment and there's jiggery pokery of a financial...
I regularly practice the online GB Test, and get about 55 rows, less than 10 missed and Zero incorrectly marked, went for an assessment where they did the paper version, flew through it with none incorrect and maybe a couple missed, got about halfway down on each section and this was the part of...
Sorry to hear about that OP, just shows that one person's Heaven is another's Purgatory, I'd stick with it for the while, maybe once you get to do some different routes and fall into a routine shift wise, maybe swapping with other driver's things will get better.
A Train Driving job and the...
Passed the other tests but was failed on the GB dots test, accuracy was ok but speed wasn't, I went at this like Usain Bolt on amphetimines !, so god knows how fast you're meant to be doing it.
I practiced days beforehand on the program you can download and was averaging 10/11 lines with only...
Estuary Man, as affable and friendly as ever
No disrespect meant to people in other jobs just merely pointing out how needlessly complicated everything has become since the pre-privatisation days, best of luck to all prospective applicants who use the site.
Hi Everyone
I'm a new user to this website, FGW have a new website dedicated to prospective trainee drivers that has a visual checking test that a 23rd century cyborg would struggle to get full marks in. :-x
Making the assessments so difficult no one can do it doesn't make any sense, back...
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