Originally Posted by
Cyio
I was a late 2016 new hire and I did a schoolhouse sv/pv in November the following year.
After that, I went to recurrent in March or April of 2017 and at that point, they I still had to do a probationary ride along with recurrent. So another oral.
I think they do a “contractual” probation ride before the twelve months but the real one as far as they are concerned is when you do recurrent.
Got a contract reference? Pretty sure the contract says you’re off probation at the completion of 1 year of service and the “probation ride” is a company creation. Same goes for going into the CPO to “get off probation”. As far as the contract is concerned you’re off probation and have union protection at 12 months, hence the company’s “probie ride” typically being scheduled prior to 12 months while you are still fireable without union intervention.