Anyone ever apply to work at Septa?? (Philadelphia: school, live)

[MarketStEl]

Originally Posted by Merchant_ZZZ

Same here, exactly. From looking at your posts here, I wonder if we know each other or in the same possible network I'm thinking the later.

Late getting back to you.

If you want to know for sure whether you and I have crossed paths, go over to Philadelphia Speaks and look for my posts. (Easiest way to get to some: go to the "Philadelphia Transportation and SEPTA" forum and read the stickies - the "Mass Transit 101" posts and "A Glossary of Philadelphia Transportation Terms".) My face appears with every post I write there.

But I suspect the latter is more likely true: we probably know people who know us both.

Since I wrote that post, I was at a meeting where Jerria Williams, SEPTA's PR chief, told me she had seen me at City Hall station and tried to get my attention, but I was in a bubble. At that same meeting, she also told me about the reaction inside the agency to my Phillymag.com news blog post calling for a return of the R-numbers (quoting her: "Sandy, give it up!")

[pman]

Originally Posted by MarketStEl

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Since I wrote that post, I was at a meeting where Jerria Williams, SEPTA's PR chief, told me she had seen me at City Hall station and tried to get my attention, but I was in a bubble. At that same meeting, she also told me about the reaction inside the agency to my Phillymag.com news blog post calling for a return of the R-numbers (quoting her: "Sandy, give it up!")

there probably isn't anything less important than the return of the R numbers

[MarketStEl]

Originally Posted by pman

there probably isn't anything less important than the return of the R numbers

In the grand scheme of things, yes. Certainly keeping the infrastructure in a state of good repair is the most important priority.

But that doesn't mean dropping them wasn't a mistake. (Though dropping the color codes too was an even bigger one.)

[Quint215]

Does anyone know how long it takes for the background check to come back? That's the only thing I'm waiting for they told me when I called.

[FBJ]

Originally Posted by Quint215

Does anyone know how long it takes for the background check to come back? That's the only thing I'm waiting for they told me when I called.

The two background checks I had in the past 4 years took about 10 to 14 business days to come back.

[darylj281]

Does any one is the dot physical for the bus operators like the one nj transit does with the machine you look in for the eye test

[Tarrel16567]

you usually have to know someone to get a job with septa.

[Wicked007]

What about Regional Rail?
Do you need to know someone to work on the train?
Anyone ever worked RR before? Is it a good job or what?

[Marqus64]

I saw an advertisement for Septa recently for a bus driver. I had applied several years ago and went through a lot of crap and decided against, but after seeing the ad took a chance it only took 2 to 3 minutes. And I got an email several DAYS LATER setting me up for the testing. So you have to keep trying every six months or so the website to Septa's credit tells you the turn around time to apply.

It would help if you already have your class B license and some customer service skills under your belt. That seems to be their big thing now so you can better deal with the customers. If you go through a school bus company you get the license for free and experience. But as I did school bus driving for three years you need an extra income you'll only make about $200.00 weekly without the license and customer services skills you are just another number like any job you has to separate yourself from the pack.

[TimmyTightWad]

I had a friend get in as an engineering intern. He knew someone and literally didn't have to interview. He left after the internship to do electrical engineering designing amtrak signaling for their train tracks or something like that. The process he described for getting into septa made me think the organization was really heavy on nepotism and politics