Originally Posted by
seafeye
You'll get tired of the constant changes to your schedule. And you might be like me and enjoy the spontaneous aspect of the job. Then it will get old. You will call your wife after not seeing her for 5 days and say your going to be home at 5 for dinner. Then Sherry will call from scheduling and say she has modified your trip. You have a 2 hour sit and then doing a XYZ round trip. Finishing at 10pm. You won't be able to make your commute home and will have to pay for a hotel or go to the crash pad. Either way your wife is ****ed. Your ****ed. Then you find out the reason you had to do the extra round trip is because the other crew member called out sick because he wanted to go home and have dinner with his wife.
After this happens time and time again it wears on you. The honeymoon will end. It's just a matter of when.
This is the best description of our reserve here at PSA. I have been here just over a year and live in base so it makes life easy. As far as holding a line, I have been holding one pretty steady since November and was holding a few build ups last summer. But Im always at the bottom of the list and usually one of the last three to get a line. Dayton is getting senior on both the FO and CA side due to senior FOs not taking upgrade while CLT has a lot of takers. Dont really pay attention to the CLT or TYS lines because Im never going there unless I have to but I have been hearing very junior FOs are holding lines in CLT. I was lucky enough not to sit reserve here for very long but I can tell you that when i did it sucked. If I were a new hire I would go to TYS just to avoid our pathetic hot reserve and the duty time that comes with it. PSA has its good and its bad just like every company.