Pros
Good money when school is in session. Possible overtime when school is in session. If you're high up in seniority, around 70 or above, out of 150 people, you get a pretty nice weekly schedule, and aren't required to have oncalls.
Cons
When you're new you get a terrible schedule and two on-calls a week. They are the worst. When school is out of session your hours drop, you can't have more than 15 hours in your schedule. Five to ten of those hours will be an on call and you only get full pay if you get called in. Cyride fights you in unemployment over the summer. When covid hit the head of cyride sent out papers for everyone to sign asking if they could survive with less hours. Everyone wanted to be helpful, so a lot of people said they could maybe lose a few hours, and those that did, didn't receive any unemployment. Pretty sure they used it as a defense for them not needing more money. Those who said they couldn't lose any hours got unemployment. Cyride still hacked everyone's hours when covid hit. Despite the fact they get a lump sum of money from contracts at the start of the year to pay us all for the whole year. We all lost hours and we didn't have to. They could've paid us just fine. Some of us went from 39 hours to 20. Some of us went from 39 to 0. But they cut everyone's hours, not because they didn't have the money, but because they saw an opportunity to capitalize on a pandemic and save money for themselves. Apply for cyride because it's a good job in the sense that it pays well and you get to choose what hours you work. Just don't fall for their frequent "we're in this together nonsense " it's just a job and a lot of people working here kill themselves going the extra mile, as if cyride is also going the extra mile for us. They aren't. Anyway, overall you can't survive in the summer easily here. Which doesn't matter if you're a student and want to head home for the summer, cyride will let you do that.