Originally Posted by
tsquare
As a kinda-sometime senior reserve guy in NY, and an unable to even throw bags in the same category in ATL, I could see where unable to hold a good line guys in ATL would come up in order to fly out of NY so they could hold 4th of July (for example) off, and make me fly it. Like you said, it has to be worded right, and so far I have little faith about our lawyers ability to do so. That SUCKS.
On our old North temp system, if an ATL guy came to NY to temp, he would bid after all of the permanent NY'ers, so he could not do what you are fearing. It was generally the people that were on the bottom of their own category that tempted, as they were going to bid on the bottom regardless...
If you added temping to our current system where there is no seperate category for lineholder and reserve, it would essentially just be a mechanism for balancing out the reserve body count among bases.
Right now, what you say you fear, already happens within the categories when guys who normally hold a line, drop down to reserve to grab up a holiday off that they can't hold otherwise. One advantage to seperate categories was that if you were a "senior" reserve guy, you were always a "senior" reserve guy, even during the holidays. Even with that said, after working under both systems, I think that I prefer the combined lineholder and reserve that we have now, with room for improvement of course.