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Once you become productive you rise to 75% of the full wage then 6 months from the productive date you rise to 90% and then a further 6 months you receive the full rate and Taunton to Yeovil is well within the 45min travel allowance
Congratulations and welcome to Bournemouth depot , good bunch at Bournemouth just finished my guards course at Basingstoke and now route learning . I’m based in Weymouth
Once on the course you will have a dayout in which you visit some depots and get to have a look at the links and rosters etc , don’t panic and enjoy the course
It’s not until you’re fully competent! It’s when you are productive, you are on a training wage for classroom and route learning then you go up to 75% as soon as you work a train on your own ( fully productive) then after a period of time you go to 100% pay ! Probation is 6 months from the date...
The salary eventually would be around £61k but that’s only after all routes and traction is signed and steps up in increments to that , it may be a couple of years before you fully hit that mark as newly qualified drivers are normally limited in routes covered . I know last year when I had an...
Yes we do , 1% for the first £1000 taken then 5% after that on sales , you don’t get anything for doing TODs ( pre purchase tickets ) that we can issue on the machines ! Commission has pretty my dried up now with COVID-19 as most people have qr codes , some of our turns we regularly took...
I did the job from 1999-2005 covering sda and the sds roles which included ticket office sales as well , Sunday’s are outside the working week when I did the role , loved my time on the platforms and have many happy memories from my time
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