Passenger Trains > Would you like to work for Amtrak?

The company is advertising a wide range of job openings. Police service in many locations. Dining car trainee in Los Angeles. Engineer service in many locations, with 60 months clean, no drug or alcohol. Excellent verbal skills required.


Assistant inspector General in DC! Executive in NY.


https://jobs.amtrak.com/job/Los-Angeles-OBS-Trainee-%28Food-Specialist%29-90194415-Los-Angeles-CA-90012/307195400/

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Only if I could hold the North Station Boston to Brunswick, Maine run the rest of my working years.  But too late....I'm already gone.

It's not a viable, innovative concern.

i signed a waiver agreement stating that i can't work for Amtrak after my injury settlement ... . i just turned retirement age anyway this past Dec

When I did my interview for train service in 2000 all and I mean all the questions were about conflict resolution. Nothing about the opperation of the train or revenue collecting.
Steve

Been there; done that! Bureaucracy in its purest form. Every innovative, revenue-producing idea shot down. Then told no promotion unless I give in to gay sex. Oh well, the pass privileges were very good; rode many trains long since gone the way of the iron horse.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 02/06/16 23:12 by railwaybaron.

Railwaybaron's experience is a common one.
Been there, done that also (well not all of that).

If you need a job it provides union wages and benefits.
Learn all you can while there and use that knowledge to
move onto something better.

 



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 02/07/16 06:26 by Englewood.

Or you could just put your head down, get busy, and do the job...
Hard work and crazy long hours, but...
I've never had less than a 4 day weekend in my career
Never worked much over 12 days a month or 120 days a year.

As a result, I can live up here in Dutch Flat in a house I designed and built myself.  (had the time to do it)
The one on one time I've had rasing my daughter has been priceless!
And I can tell stories 'till the cows come home...

No regrets
SR Bush
Amtrak LSA

My spot opens up in 5mo 19days
 

Out_Of_Service Wrote:
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> i signed a waiver agreement stating that i can't
> work for Amtrak after my injury settlement ... .

Well, that explains your TO handle.

I'm a police officer and I am retiring next month. Maybe I should look into this. Might be fun to be an Amtrak cop.

Ken Pryor
Flat Rock, IL
http://kpryor.rrpicturearchives.net/

Englewood Wrote:
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> Railwaybaron's experience is a common one.
> Been there, done that also (well not all of
> that).
>
> If you need a job it provides union wages and
> benefits.
> Learn all you can while there and use that
> knowledge to
> move onto something better.
>
>  
One of my friends seams to have more of the experience that Railwaybaron had with the job too...

Jim

Kind of depends on what you do, where you are, and who you work for ( and with ). Same could be said for a lot of 
outfits.

That's their standard procedure now to make you sign an agreement, yet they strung me a long and let me interview for RFE and DS jobs, than in the end said I was one huge liability.

Regarding interviewing for Amtrak, when I interviewed for engine service the first time in early 2002, I had been working a variety of jobs from the road, to yard to work trains handling freight equipment in differeing types of authority, etc.  Imagine how flabergasted I was when they started asking me questions about my best customer service experience, I got very nervous, my mouth got dry, I just didn't know what to say.  I tried to spin the interview, but they were having none of it, myself and another whom many thought were shoe in's didn't get the job.  Yet they hired a clerk with zero train service experience, which upset a lot of folks, in the end he made it through the program.  But whatever happened to just going down the list in senority order like the freight roads used to do, nope not Amtrak, they have to be politically correct about it all.  What got me though was out of the four person panel, three of the guys were senior engineers, how they bought into this BS I don't know and they should have been embarresed about themselves for taking part in such a BS scheme being run by HR.  When I interviewed the second time to be an engineer on the commutes, same old BS interview style, only this time I was feeding them a line of BS that they wanted to hear, I can play the game too.

My interview to become a trainman was far more intense than the engine service interviews.

Out_Of_Service Wrote:
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> i signed a waiver agreement stating that i can't
> work for Amtrak after my injury settlement ... . i
> just turned retirement age anyway this past Dec

Amtrak is a passenger railroad dealing with people, so of course they care about customer service experience. Any job that deals with people is going to put emphasis on customer service. 

When I was agent two of the Engineers I worked with had been Managers, And good at it but finally got tired of all the Management BS and games and went back into the ranks and drove trains where they could enjoy what they did.
Steve

fjc Wrote:
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> That's their standard procedure now to make you
> sign an agreement, yet they strung me a long and
> let me interview for RFE and DS jobs, than in the
> end said I was one huge liability.
>
> Regarding interviewing for Amtrak, when I
> interviewed for engine service the first time in
> early 2002, I had been working a variety of jobs
> from the road, to yard to work trains handling
> freight equipment in differeing types of
> authority, etc.  Imagine how flabergasted I was
> when they started asking me questions about my
> best customer service experience, I got very
> nervous, my mouth got dry, I just didn't know what
> to say.  I tried to spin the interview, but they
> were having none of it, myself and another whom
> many thought were shoe in's didn't get the job.
>  Yet they hired a clerk with zero train service
> experience, which upset a lot of folks, in the end
> he made it through the program.  But whatever
> happened to just going down the list in senority
> order like the freight roads used to do, nope not
> Amtrak, they have to be politically correct about
> it all.  What got me though was out of the four
> person panel, three of the guys were senior
> engineers, how they bought into this BS I don't
> know and they should have been embarresed about
> themselves for taking part in such a BS scheme
> being run by HR.  When I interviewed the second
> time to be an engineer on the commutes, same old
> BS interview style, only this time I was feeding
> them a line of BS that they wanted to hear, I can
> play the game too.
>
> My interview to become a trainman was far more
> intense than the engine service interviews.
>
> Out_Of_Service Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > i signed a waiver agreement stating that i
> can't
> > work for Amtrak after my injury settlement ... .
> i
> > just turned retirement age anyway this past Dec

railwaybaron Wrote:
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> Then told no promotion unless I give in
> to gay sex. 

At Amtrak?  REALLY?  I just can't believe it.  

** disengaging sarcasm key **

chrsjrcj Wrote:
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> Amtrak is a passenger railroad dealing with
> people, so of course they care about customer
> service experience. Any job that deals with people
> is going to put emphasis on customer service. 

i can understand emphasizing "customer service" for a conductor's position that will be dealing with the passengers.  i think the emphasis on interviewing a potential locomotive engineer candidate should be on their experience as it relates to safely run an engine.........

66

I agree for OBS and conductors, ticket agents, but engineers?  Seriously first and foremost is the rules compliancy and safe operation of the train, those coupled together will afford a good safe ride, that's about as far as my customer service went as an engineer.  

chrsjrcj Wrote:
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> Amtrak is a passenger railroad dealing with
> people, so of course they care about customer
> service experience. Any job that deals with people
> is going to put emphasis on customer service. 

This is a positive attitude, no one will believe it, especially if it relates to Amtrak.


BoilingMan Wrote:
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> Or you could just put your head down, get busy,
> and do the job...
> Hard work and crazy long hours, but...
> I've never had less than a 4 day weekend in my
> career
> Never worked much over 12 days a month or 120 days
> a year.
>
> As a result, I can live up here in Dutch Flat in a
> house I designed and built myself.  (had the time
> to do it)
> The one on one time I've had rasing my daughter
> has been priceless!
> And I can tell stories 'till the cows come
> home...
>
> No regrets
> SR Bush
> Amtrak LSA
>
> My spot opens up in 5mo 19days
>  

If i could keep my RR seniority then maybe.