Can any of you UP guys tell me? - Page 3

BadOrderKing · Tweet this Post! #21 (**permalink**) 12-02-2009, 09:48 PM

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Originally Posted by jonnyseeandoh

I'll pipe in for a glaring spelling error now and then, but should probably avoid it for when I see what my hamfisted fingers can come up with I am amazed!

My spelling improved tremendously with the installation of Google Chrome.

Sorry, I just can quit plugging it. LOL.

jonnyseeandoh · Tweet this Post! #22 (**permalink**) 12-02-2009, 10:01 PM

erm, well.....firefox does that too so.......

BadOrderKing · Tweet this Post! #23 (**permalink**) 12-02-2009, 10:05 PM

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Originally Posted by jonnyseeandoh

erm, well.....firefox does that too so.......

I know. I just had nothing else clever to say.

knuckle_buster · Tweet this Post! #24 (**permalink**) 12-03-2009, 06:39 PM

Ok.. so WTF is a hiring session? Sounds like they throw us in a pit and we fight for it....

jonnyseeandoh · Tweet this Post! #25 (**permalink**) 12-03-2009, 06:46 PM

There will be a meeting open to potential applicants, and you will have to do a Hogan test and fit some square pegs in round holes and do an english test and so forth, and this how they weed out the chaff. If you survive that you get an interview. The Hogan test has like 100 questions, look carefully, they are all the same question asked 100 ways. Answer consistently. They will gauge your commitment to safety, of course you know to lather it on thick.

knuckle_buster · Tweet this Post! #26 (**permalink**) 12-03-2009, 06:54 PM

Putting square pegs in round holes.. sounds like working for the railroad to me. Damn this is quite a process. Worth every minute though.

TheOne · Tweet this Post! #27 (**permalink**) 12-03-2009, 07:53 PM

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Originally Posted by BadOrderKing

Be too specific and they can trip you up later on. Keep it general and MAKE them get more info. If the need it, they will ask. If it is specifically job related, you will know. Otherwise, I try to keep everything in general terms when speaking to RR officials.

I was referring to the comment that I quoted.

Nobody smokes around me... Last conductor that smoked in my engine, I went over and farted in his face while he was sleeping. He said he could taste it...

Told him next time he smoked, I'd think of something even worse.

WÖØD · Tweet this Post! #28 (**permalink**) 12-04-2009, 07:57 PM

my favorite part of the hiring session was the people who arrived wearing suits, then the first statement was "this work requires you to be outside in inclement weather" and 3 people left. the next statement was "you will be on call for 30 years 24/7 365, and you will be forced out of town" and another 3 people left. before we took our first test, 10 people had left out of a total of 30 people. by the time we got to one on one interviews, their were 7 people left.

BadOrderKing · Tweet this Post! #29 (**permalink**) 12-04-2009, 08:07 PM

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my favorite part of the hiring session was the people who arrived wearing suits, then the first statement was "this work requires you to be outside in inclement weather" and 3 people left. the next statement was "you will be on call for 30 years 24/7 365, and you will be forced out of town" and another 3 people left. before we took our first test, 10 people had left out of a total of 30 people. by the time we got to one on one interviews, their were 7 people left.

We had a guy like that in my interview. All dressed up, leather bound folder with all his diplomas and such. He kept refering to his learnings and asking question after question about benefits and pay scales.

Finally the guy running the interview, in a very nice way, explained to him that the RR did not really care if he spoke 20 languages and could do trig in his head as long as he could folow directions, work safe and turn a wrench. His pay would start at $XX and in three years be $XX. His days off will be governed by seniority and as long as he was at th bottom of the pile, they would be the shittiest they have to offer. He will be a Carman for the rest of his career and dont even think that this is a step towards a desk job.

After that, the guy still stuck through the interview process. Maybe he just came accross the wrong way.

knuckle_buster · Tweet this Post! #30 (**permalink**) 12-05-2009, 09:01 AM

I hope thats the case here. I already know the ins and outs of it, inclement weather, being on call, and being the lowest man, bangin' cars all day and having to inspect and work on my own power now as it is. To be honest I'm going into this expecting to be the guy pumping out the shitters, filling sand, and fueling for the next 5 to 10... and thats fine with me.

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