Jobs at the TTC

[t_dot]

Any terbites know about getting on with the TTC. I've been considering a career with the TTC as a transit opperator, but am wondering about the application process and the best way to go about submitting your application.

Also, I would like to know how they place you with respect to the type of vehicle you drive. Do you get to pick, or do they just throw you on the Finch bus and tell you love it or leave it!?

Thanks.

 

[james t kirk]

I would suggest you check their website:

http://www.toronto.ca/ttc/jobopps.htm

As with any job, you have to be prepared to start low and work your way up.

 

[raven@mirage]

My dad works at TTC<

You have to go bathurst and dupont and apply. or now they have it where you can apply on the ttc website.

your best bet is go into the office at bathurst and dupont.

my dad did that 20 years ago.

I use to work at thier call centre.

 

[Keebler Elf]

Be prepared for some stiff competition. The TTC is very popular with job applicants due to the good pay and benefits.

 

[crocket]

I would choose to drive a subway car over being a bus driver anyday. The damn subway drives itself, vs. the bus. Seeing no daylight would be hard, but what can you do .

 

[fuji]

I'm interested in getting it on with some of the younger prettier women of the TTC, any hints on how to overcome the "stiff competition"?

 

[DistantVoyeur]

I'm interested in getting it on with some of the younger prettier women of the TTC, any hints on how to overcome the "stiff competition"?

If you're trying to make a transit "pass", let us know how you fare. That is one line that might be worth joining.

 

[raven@mirage]

Yes there is stiff competition, been there done that.

I grew up on the benefits TTC has to offer,

There is almost no way to beat the competition at TTC, they hold your resume for 6 months and you just keep applying every 6 months until they hire you took my dad a year to get by them 20 years ago.

and TTC awards are really fun to attend.

 

[Keebler Elf]

I would choose to drive a subway car over being a bus driver anyday. The damn subway drives itself, vs. the bus.

And that very well could be your downfall. I foresee a not-too-distant future when the subway is controlled remotely from the control room via sensors and cameras. They've already gone to automated voice recordings of which station you're arriving at, it's just a matter of time before they get rid of the driver.

That being said, I think there will always be a crew member on board, but it will be that guy who looks out the window at each station before closing the doors - not the driver.

 

[l69norm]

..The damn subway drives itself, vs. the bus. ...

That used to be the case with subway drivers....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell_Hill_subway_accident
http://transit.toronto.on.ca/archives/data/200508061136.shtml

".....Here, on Aug. 11, 1995 — 10 years ago Thursday — a southbound, six-car subway train known as Run 35 smashed at nearly 50 km/h into the back of its Run 34 predecessor, which was stopped at a signal light just north of the Dupont station.

The impact — so tremendous that it mushroomed subway cars into a metal plug that sealed the tunnel from track to ceiling — killed Kinga Szabo, Christina Munar Reyes and Xian Hui Lin and injured about 140 others..........Run 35 driver Robert Jeffrey...had run through three sets of red lights before swooping around a blind curve under Russell Hill Dr. at 6:02 p.m. to find the stopped train sitting dead ahead....."

http://transit.toronto.on.ca/archives/data/200508061752.shtml

"....For instance, subway operators were given just 12 days of training ... and given the answers to their tests to prevent them from failing......The driver of the runaway train, then 37-year-old Robert Jeffrey, was on his second day on the job, ..."

 

[revolver]

I foresee a not-too-distant future when the subway is controlled remotely from the control room via sensors and cameras.

Not going to happen anytime soon. And there would be a long drawn out battle with the union before it ever does.

 

[The Bandit]

Not going to happen anytime soon. And there would be a long drawn out battle with the union before it ever does.

Union, Schmunion.....yes they can, and there's nothing the union can do about it. A union can't tell a company what they can/can't do to improve the business with technology etc. Do they think that staying the old way is beneficial, in the future it's going to be the way of the do-do bird. The union as a whole might do the work for the TTC, but they can't tell them how to run it.

I've been on both sides of the fence, union and non-union. After getting rid of the union, the company tried contracting out at first, and still went out of business. Get over it, unions are a dinosaur....

 

[Keebler Elf]

A union can't tell a company what they can/can't do to improve the business with technology etc.

Unless they have a technology provision in their collective agreement. Which some unions do.

 

[goodtime]

Union, Schmunion.....yes they can, and there's nothing the union can do about it. A union can't tell a company what they can/can't do to improve the business with technology etc. Do they think that staying the old way is beneficial, in the future it's going to be the way of the do-do bird. The union as a whole might do the work for the TTC, but they can't tell them how to run it.

That's the case with the RT. Initially driver-less but Union got their way with safety-concern for 1 driver on-board.

Guess Vancouver Skytrain didn't get the 'safety-concern' memo...Nor: Paris, Kuala Lumpur, Singapore, Turin, Copenhagen and Nuremberg...
http://transit.toronto.on.ca/archives/data/200611171159.shtml

 

[Esco!]

Unless they have a technology provision in their collective agreement. Which some unions do.

Cheers!!!


Damned Union people!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Esco!]

Union, Schmunion.....at first, and still went out of business. Get over it, unions are a dinosaur....

Union Schumion!!!!

 

[Esco!]

Unless they have a technology provision in their collective agreement

We have technology way beyond your comprehension!!

 

[Esco!]

Unless they have a technology provision in their collective agreement. Which some unions do.

Hey Keebler................I never liked you!!

 

[t_dot]

thanks to all who posted and sent pms. i'm going to see if i can talk to someone who works for the ttc and see if there are any inside tricks to getting on with one of these sweet union jobs.

 

[oldjones]

Quote:

Originally Posted by Keebler Elf
Unless they have a technology provision in their collective agreement. Which some unions do.

Cheers!!!


Damned Union people!!!!!!!!!!!

There's nothing in any collective agreement that management didn't agree to.
Damned Management people!!!!!!!!!

Let's have nobody run anything with any agreement from anybody shall we Esco!?