>>1201942I live in Morris County far as fuck from the Atlantic City line and am stationed in Hoboken(even further). Nj Trans-shit is a total clusterfuck.
There is a severe shortage of engineers(the people who drive the trains) because despite NJ being a high cost state, NJ Trans-shit pay lags behind that of other regional railroads. Also for every class of engineers about 10% or so actually graduate and the majority -- perhaps 90% wash out. When I was at on the job training back in 2014 I saw a huge class of engineers and each subsequent day I saw less and less of them. Metro North is so notorious for poaching the engineers NJ Trans-shit that our company pays so much to train that every regional paper has reported on it. It is beyond amazing that they don't craft some kind of legal document that engineer candidates must agree to remain with the company for a set number or years say 5-10 before they can jump to other railroads. Far as I know just like my craft, if you train to become an engineer while in training you get paid the same rate as an actual engineer in your first year, it is not like college where you pay... So you shouldn't have a right to be trained at great expense and jump ship to Metro North or LIRR or MTA after a few months.
The issue is that this company has a shit culture and the philosophy is "hurry up and sleep" and I think it is endemic in the railroad industry. Working with union workers sucks. Imagine sports working like this:
A) A basketball player has the ball, whether he scores or not is decided by whether the man on offense has more seniority than the player who is defending. That is why the railroad industry sucks alot of the people who have the most time on the railroad are lazy and don't do shit because "herr derr I have seniority I will treat the new guys like shit while they pick up my slack".
