Originally Posted by
fishforfun
Looking at the TDY list it appeared there were very few involuntary TDYs. Maybe that doesn't reflect the real story. I also have friends at regionals spending weeks TDY making 30-50% less than us.
Perhaps you don't realize that you can bid for a specific city on the TDY list if there are multiple cities and you know that you are going to be TDY.
ex:you are the bottom guy in a base where they say they are taking 10 TDY from. They are TDYing to two different bases and you prefer one over the other. You can bid for that base. You still don't want to TDY at all, but that is not a choice and you can bid for the lesser of two evils.
The company would say that is voluntary TDY. Would you? Keep that in mind while you are looking at the number of "voluntary" TDY.
It's all in the definition around here.