Originally Posted by
rcfd13
I'm not super happy with my award but it's not PBS or my own fault I don't think. I like locals and the number of locals in my base was reduced significantly. I'm only senior enough to hold the min credit ones now. My line completed in layer 3 with all locals but I'm working far more days this month and last than I used to because of the drop in number of locals forcing me to get the lower paying ones.
And that's the real problem. Garbage in-garbage out. One of the main reasons (I think) that we see the senior guys howling that PBS is screwing them is that they expect to see the same or better as their historical seniority has allowed them to hold. Five years ago, DEN had in excess of 225 locals on average for a given month. A few months ago, less than 50. If you expect to have to work about half the month, now there are more than 12 lines of locals fewer than before. The people who could only hold crummy locals before now have to go looking for standups or two days, which kicks down the more junior people who were holding two-days, etc, etc. When 85% of the pairings are 4-days, it doesn't matter if you used to hold XYZ, now you're probably holding 4-days.