Originally Posted by
BenderRodriguez
I don't live in base. (2 hour flight) I DO have a crashpad though which makes it a bit easier. Since it is NY, I have to stay twice a month (which sometimes less, sometimes more) to "break even" on what a hotel would cost but that is not the determinate as to how much I go there.
My point was that I have read a lot of work less for more pay, yet this option which accomplishes precisely that is getting stomped on. Fine.
I would't say it is getting stomped on--merely the fact that some are pointing out that it doesn't necessarily work for all people all the time.
I am on reserve this month and will likely only get 60 hours, since I personally dropped a few days. Why? Because I am hyper-busy with sports, scouts, etc. But reserve worked for me this month.
Next month I have 11 vac days, and almost bid reserve again. In fact I changed my bid at the last minute. It would have been nice--87 hrs pay for only 12 days on call. But I have too many things going on and I could not risk getting called out on a 4-day trip
So between sports event
this morning, but
that evening, and a scout outing
that weekend, but the
other mid-day, blah blah blah, I have dropped every single trip except a 2-day, which I am also trying to drop! Then I will put myself on defacto short call with a month-long series of WS, trying to pick up easy one and two day trips.
I don't normally like doing this, but the contract gives me most of the latitude I need to work around all the busyness in my life.
Maybe I need to scale back....