Our current reserve rules are not that bad and actually quite livable. The problem is the crew desk and their managers. They bastardize the language and find every loophole they can. Every time I think they are screwing me I learn that they are actually in the right, this leads me to believe that you are actually theirs 24/7. The Reserve rules don't need to be fixed, the language needs to be fixed.

Examples:

1. If notified of a SC at 2359 you need 12hrs, if notified at 0000 you need 10 hrs. Scheduling has done this to me numerous times. They build a 10am SC and wait tell midnight to assign it.

2. Any SC built within 15 hours of call time is immediately assignable. they wait tell the evening then build several SC times and assign them immediately. There is no transparency. If I would have known they were going to build a 0200 SC I would have picked up the 1400 SC that was built before 10am. It also removes pilots that WANT to pick up a SC from the list.

3. You can only sit 1 RSV period a day. Thats great but the company keeps you on the hook until 2359 then releases you for the day 1 minute before midnight then assigns you a SC/FSB for the next day. If you are on a SC assignment you can not Aggressive pickup without the required rest, (hard to get when your 14hrs ends at 5am). Again you have no control over your life, you end up being the crew desks ***** because you can't break the SC cycle.

4. There is no consistency with SC and FSB assignments. How can a Wednesday with perfect weather need 12 SCs and 2 FSB, then a Saturday with garbage weather get 1 SC? If scheduling needs a reserve to start every hour then they should make that the standard everyday and staff the base accordingly. Reserves should be able to look at the FIFO list and see where exactly they fall based on the required pilots needed for the day. This allows RSV to either pickup a trip, pick a SC that suits their needs best and plan their commute.

5. This one I just learned about yesterday, if you are going from RSV to line holder they can roll your days into you line month, even for a basic trip. Reason being is because line holders do not have RDOs and HDOs. So the section of the contract that states that you can only have RDOs rolled for a global trip does not apply. WHAT?????? Talk about a load of ****.

6. Scheduling doesn't look ahead at tomorrow, this is nothing new, However, getting rolled into your days off because they put 13 people on SC yesterday and now they are all illegal is not right.

Anyways I'v decided I'm done commuting and I am moving to base. However, I would still like to have control over my life and will most likely be voting no on this TA based on the lack of RSV fixes.