Originally Posted by
Flamer
But, it happened to you mainly because our vacation sucks. You got 2 four day trips (lousy ones) paid, but it blocked out 14 days of your Sched making it impossible to create an alv line in remaining time. It has happened to me too. I cringe everytime I check new bids in a vacation month.
Not sure if this has been addressed, I am days behind on my reading on here, but an easy fix for the problem that you describe would be the PBS bid command that we had at NWA "VACATION ANY".
It would take your vacaction time for the bid month and use it as a credit value only, not assinged to a specific day, allowing the bid software to use any trips remaining in the pool to get you to the total credit needed for the month. Then it would drop your vacation days back on to any of your days off for the month.
Not a fix for everything, as you would need to have flexible plans for your time off since you would not know exactly when you would be off until the month before.
That, and "VACATION SLIDE" were nice tools to have. I think that the "slide" is coming back as part of the SOT changes.