Originally Posted by
gettinbumped
It's probably about the same. PBS is great if you're super senior. Lousy if you're super junior, and average if you're in the middle. Of course it costs us vacation override regardless of which system, which is the big loss.
The biggest difference I see between the two is that the old system was easier to "massage". You could put in more criteria without risking running into the H category, this telling PBS you wanted as many of this type of trip as it can give you. There's probably a way around that, but I haven't figured it yet
Good luck finding it, I have spent years with this system and the only overriding theme I have come to discover is that the more massaging you do the worse schedule I get. Since then I keep it easy only requesting days off and ranking cities in order.