Originally Posted by
Jughead135
Agreed with all of that--BUT, the scenario the OP raised was having a stand-alone RES ("on call") day at the end of a month. None of those reasons (possible exception of child care) could be played in this scenario--your [his] schedule had RES on the last day of the month from the get-go. Even the child care card could, I imagine, land one in hot water ("Well, Mr Driver, you were scheduled for a RES day, and the PWA clearly states you could be flown into your REG month--why didn't you have child care arrangements for the day(s) in question...??").
As I read it, that laundry list of how assignments aren't absolute ("proffer or not") essentially applies to a trip assigned to you at the last minute, starting on a day when you didn't expect to be flying / on-call.
I agree that you need to be available the 1 reserve day at the end of the month, but it's far from reasonable to be extended into the next month on day where you were not scheduled to fly.
I have young kids and my wife works. The mix of my work days, her work days, school and pre-school, and nanny is carefully arranged weeks ahead of time. Delta cannot expect me to have child care available for every day of the month (in this case, or in the case of inverse assignments).
I would have no hesitation in telling the scheduler and CP if needed the situation, and not expect to work those days that they want me to. In this case it might "only" be 3 extra days, but in airplanes with longer trips, it could be an extra week or longer. Not happening in this household.
If you don't stand up for yourself, then it's only your fault if scheduling runs over you.