Thanks for the congrats.
It's as the contract manager for northern's alternative transport, so it's not as exciting as driving a train or working on one but I'm thrilled to be working for northern. I will be based at their HQ in York and I've now got a feeling that my holiday entitlement maybe different to front line roles?
So northern is a good company to work for then? This is my first job working for the rail industry, as I've been a civil servant for the past 8 years.
I'm surprised I was offered it, as they'd interviewed internally at the same time.
I received the call yesterday and my interview was last Friday.
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Big congrats, I'm waiting in a pool for trainee driver. If you don't mind me asking what role and depot have you got ?
Did you get the call today ?
Well done getting into the pool, as I know it's massively hard to get into the train driver side.
what is the position for? speaking for drivers and guards on east side we get 5 weeks annual leave a year plus 6 floating days to use whenever we want but the general consensus is that its not easy once your passed out and in the links to get your floating days when you want them. With the annual leave, you get it allocated - 3 seperate weeks and 2 together, spread throughout the year. Theres rounds of swaps where you have opportunity to put in to swap your weeks if you want to change them. Again your not guaranteed to get them but can try. We get free travel on any northern service and nearly all grand centrals. Theres also schemes run by external companies in conjunction with northern such as a recent bike purchasing scheme where you pay monthly tax free. Pretty awesome place to work. Medical is eyesight, drugs alcohol, hearing, balancing(various weired and wonderful methods they used to test that), blood sugar, blood pressure and a questionaire. They've recently changed to a different company for the medicals so yours might differ to when i started earlier this year.