I rarely picked up open time, I value my time away from work. However I never did when we were furloughing or downgrading. With that said, I would much rather see someone picking up the open time rather than getting it forced upon a person via jr man or extension. The company will do that before they bring back 2 furloughs to cover 100 hours of open time. I had a dude yell at me for picking up open time on my 33 flight hour/75 credit hour CDO schedule, meanwhile he's bidding max working 95 hours. Now who's helping the company if he's working more than I am? especially if I can pick up 1 2 day trip and still work 45-50 hours less but make more than him....Don't work harder, work smarter.
rant over .