Originally Posted by
Bloodhound
I'm not at JB yet (12/4 class) but the Junior Assignment, or junior manning at some places, is basically when all reserves are used or unavailable and they start reassigning line holders to cover flight. Generally speaking, it can be a line holder finishing the assigned trip and they get nabbed in the jetway or they start cold calling people on their day off. The simplest way to avoid the cold call is to not answer your phone on your day off. I have no idea how often, if at all, either happens at JB.
Generally that's how it is, here it's often applied differently. If you are modified into flying you are not scheduled, called EMR pay, you get 40% over your base pay. If there are cancellations etc they can't get you home and you need to be put up, they will usually DH you home at 5 hours @1.9 pay with includes the jra. We don't, or at least I have never been called in my 5 years here, for a "junior assignment". I have once been offered an extension, with I accepted because it paid well. I was given the option of accepting or not.