Originally Posted by
FLMD11CAPT
Grease has it on the nose and Tony alludes to it as well.....DON'T BID SECONDARY W/VACATION. IMHO your best bet is to slide your vacation 5 days (max) in the direction you need off, then expand to max days (3 more) then bid Reserve line that directly conflicts as many as possible. Don't forget you have a 48 hr. buffer on either side of your total vacation footprint as well. This is all predicated on you not being able to hold a regular line which fits your needs. Good Luck.
Here's the short version: 7 days vacation. 2 days front, 2 days rear. If you commute...subtract 2.
Bottom line, you get 9 days off--somewhere--in a 5 wk bid month. Long ways away from knocking out most of a month...
