Originally Posted by
tsquare
Uh, no. I am not interested in being stuck in reserve. I can't be a regular lineholder at this point with any consistency, but occasionally I can hold it.. and that is good. If I had to bid all reserve all the time or bid out, I wouldn't like that choice. I don't know what temping was, and as far as the monthly AE thing, I have no real opinion.
Temping was a sweet deal for commuters. If the company needed to level reserves among the bases temporarily, they would give you a position in another base for a month. They'd give you positive space travel from your home (not base) to get there, and pay you per diem from the time you left home until you got back home whether you got a trip or not. They would also give you a hotel room to sit reserve in. You could also get a temporary block as well, but that never happened to me. It was strictly voluntary, so you'd bid for it on a monthly basis. So, if you were a NYC7ERB, but lived closer to ATL, you would keep a voluntary temp bid in for ATL7ERB for example.