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Old 01-31-2014 | 01:42 PM
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You're on long call until converted to short call or FSB. Long call is 13 hours. While they USED to assign all the next days short calls before noon, now they just wing it and assign trips in an attempt to repair todays screw-ups, and to buy them wiggle room for tomorrows. IOW, you may get a late afternoon call for a 0700 short call or FSB the next day. It sucks if you commute.

Short call is 2.5 to ops, 3.5 to push. Compared to what we had, this also inhales. But hey, it was a great win according to those who are senior enough to hold a line. It will suck to be them when the next round of bumps occurs.

My guess is that a two leg commute may be an issue for you even on long call depending on where you live.

As of today, Aggressive Reserve Pick-Up doesn't exist given that the SC's and FSB's aren't loaded. Nice.

As of today, the FIFO list no longer exists and your opportunity to sharp shoot open flying after predicting your status no longer exists.

As of today, the screw desk has no idea what's going on and when caught in direct violation of the contract will simply tell you to go fly and "grieve it".

As of today, there is zero transparency in the reserve world and all the QOL tools you used to have (which helped to offset your puny paycheck) are gone.

Welcome to UMesa.

Last edited by oldmako; 01-31-2014 at 01:55 PM.
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