The bottom line is that DOT can not be awarded before 12:01. I have never been able to bid for anything before 12:01. If Matyas allows this to happen he is conspiring with the company to allow lower seniority pilots ( his union friends making a lower rate) to gain an uncontracted advantage
Additionally there is damning evidence of senior captains being removed from juicy trips for training in January and those trips were never put into IOT for seniority bid but magically showed up for DOT for lower paid pilots to take.
This reminds me of when Chris Gonnsen ( retirement chair) signed off on the Schwab 401k even though the pilots were forced to absorb greater expenses to save the company money. Two months later Gonnsen was placed into the training dept.