Originally Posted by
Sliceback
Five days? Almost zero. With manning easy you'll get them. Burn next year's vacation days works in the company's favor. With manning tight it takes a major reason to get the additional days off. Asking in October of January has better odds then asking around holidays or the summer.
Standard advice, for decades, to include CP's - if you need the day off don't ask, dont' check, just bang in sick. CP "that's what sick days are for."
Needless to say mgt doesn't like that quote.
If you'd like the day off, but don't need it, go ahead and ask.
And don't bang in sick and then non-rev, or get in the newspaper doing manly things that day, or fly in the reserves(all true). It can have career altering implications.
Thanks for the answers, I think I read in the PBS section of your contract that dropping of trips will be approved automatically if staffing permits through the to be implemented system, but it did not address reserve days.
The current system as it stands, you would need to sent a message to CS and they look at the staffing manually and then approve or deny the drop correct?
As far as borrowing from next year's vacation days to cover a dropped reserve days, it doesn't sound advisable. Can one just drop a reserve day like they do a trip and just have them deduct the time from your line guarantee, basically take it unpaid?
Feng