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The entirety of how the company is setup is dysfunctional.  Outside of all of the technical issues with equipment, the company does not truly invest in the safety of its employees.  Training is severely lacking to the point where the employee had to actually beg the GM for better training.  The discipline process is completely flawed as well.  There were many instances where a single employee would violate company rules on numerous occasions but they would not be fired where other employees would be fired on their first infraction no matter how minor.  Many of the documents that are reported to the public and government agencies are manipulated by management directly or by employees under threat of termination by management for insubordination.  There is a union in place for some of the trade crafts in the company, but the agreement has barely any actual protections for the employees.  Prior to the union being in place, nearly every trade craft employee was hired under a stepped pay increase system.  Of the 80+ employees that were guaranteed these increases, only 2 actually got it.  Also, the company has been fighting legal battles for discrimination from multiple employees.

Job is easy to do and training is good in the classroom. Once you step on the trains everything goes out the window and you will never meet their insane performance standards. Station times on certain lines are literally impossible to meet due to PTC and other operators. You will be written up for every little thing. You are the lowest paid person in the company and your pay will be capped after 3 years. Everyone is Union except the Operators and it shows. People here are miserable. Most operators do not make it a year due to the horribly written attendance policy that is ungodly outdated. Everything is your fault and you will be reminded of it daily. Do not work here. The only plus side to this job is that you can go home every night, and you only have to be there for 8 hours. 

Unethical work environment. Management is full of grifters who cried about quitting to get promoted and they were some of the worst employees with no actual proven skills. They just promoted one to deputy chief mechanical officer when he is one of the biggest grifter in the game. Must have gift of gab if you want to be successful. Actual skilled people have mostly left because they are a threat to supervisors and leads because they know more. If you like working with a bunch of Dunning-Krueger Effect type people, then by all means, go for it. Upper management only wants “yes men” vs knowledgeable down to earth people who can actually make a difference. Stay away from this place, I don’t even want to be near those trains anymore due to no real mechanical skilled techs and/or management who wing their way to repair trains. Trains are accidents waiting to happen every day. Hostile environment and high turnovers, do the math. 

Run, don't walk, from this company. If you decide not to follow that advice, be prepared to work all hours of the day with rotating shifts, daily. Your managers don't communicate, so you never really know what is going on. Also, you will be certified by the FRA, but the way Denver Transit Operates you will always be in fear of being decertified and being off work, unpaid.

Denver Transit Operators doesn't seem to understand how to operate a transportation company. Their turnover is sky-high, but they don't seem to do a thing about it. When the Gold Line opened (G-Line) they literally had to use Transportation Supervisors to run the lines because they were so short-handed. 

The pay is not commensurate for the responsibility you bear. These are heavy rail commuter trains and yet light rail operators make as much or more per hour. Do yourself a favor and apply to RTD directly. You'll earn more money, more time off, and a pension.

It is absolutely amazing that the Board of Directors for the Eagle P3 project are not down there cleaning house with the currant management they have running the A-Line,  B- Line and the G-Line. Not one manager is qualified for there position. Management lies to the FRA, PUC, RTD and to the local news media daily.
They have no idea how to fix the current crossing gate issues or even how to fix the issues on the G-Line that have prevented then from opening the G - Line for over two years of testing with no answer. The political influences in Denver just keep extending there waivers to delay answering to the public in regards to a project failing with no solution in sight. It's very unfortunate for the folks in Denver.

I spent six months here and that was really enough. Management is poor and not at all knowledgeable in their so-called areas of expertise. They have to rely on bringing contractors from other states in to manage things and pay them insanely high salaries just to get things done instead of investing in local people and training them like a normal company. Even HR is clueless on how to do things. Their systems are poor and they don’t seem to want to invest time or money in tweaking them to accomplish their needs. Accidents are happening often that don’t get to the media or public. Honestly, they need to clean house and take some time to build a great team of management that live locally and trust them to hire people who can get the job done. Higher salaries would recommended too.

I will make this real simple:

Work here if you like grifters that know far less then you do about your job telling you what to do and then getting to stay home and/or leave when they want to while creating more work for YOU to do. There is no opportunity for advancement because the real professional grifters are in management or "engineering"(the real joke) positions that they will never leave because..why would anyone leave a position where you get to stay home and do no work AND get paid six figures to do it?

In the meantime, there is a revolving door of skilled employees leaving understaffed departments because they won't pay or properly train the people that do the actual skilled work and produce.

Avoid this place at all costs.

I've worked at several fortune 500 companies, so I'm no wide-eyed recent graduate, and this is the worst culture I've ever encountered.

Employee requests and concerns are viewed with skepticism and suspicion. New ideas are ignored as scary and unfamiliar. Managers are clueless and disorganized. Everyone is terrified of the CEO. There is 'no budget' for BASIC workplace tools. Their PTO and sick time is a joke--like working in a factory. Oh, and your colleagues are miserable and grouchy--one sympathizes.

I was told that people are constantly leaving, and I believe it. That's exactly what I did.

Save yourself the aggravation--don't bother applying. The job descriptions and requirements are exaggerated anyway.

One of the worst run companies I've ever worked for! Most of the managers they have working there have no idea what they're doing!
Working here was one of the worst experiences of my life. They treat the operators like second class citizens and pay them that way as well. The cost of living in Denver and what they pay you in relation to that is absolutely terrible. A good number of operators have got their class1 license and moved to other cities and done quite well! But, that's not an option for everyone,
I wouldn't waste my time with this joke of a company....unless getting certified and moving elsewhere is your goal.

Unsafe operations, management is used to running a bus operation not a class I train operation. Supervisors nowhere to be found unless they are trying to catch someone doing something wrong. Lowest wage around for a class I engineer. They name the position train operator so they don’t have to pay the standard industry $20.00+ For train engineers. A union has been voted in but they’ve been in negoations almost since the beginning of the operation. Recent update is that now they are going to arbitration. Overall this company will do whatever they have to to not pay what you should be paid.

Top Job Titles	Average Salary
Truck driver 7 salaries reported	$31.02 per hour
Vehicle technician 4 salaries reported	$34.99 per hour
Warehouse clerk 4 salaries reported	$23.50 per hour
Maintenance person 2 salaries reported	$33.94 per hour
Dispatcher 4 salaries reported	$37.16 per hour

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