Here's a question about a negative vacation bank. If you have a negative balance and still have a vacation period left, what would happen to a trip that goes into that vacation footprint? Would that trip stay on your schedule or would you be removed as if you had a vacation, but just not be paid for it?
It happened to me once under the previous contract. I bid, on the advice of a planner, as if I didn't have vacation. The trip I was awarded was inside the footprint of my vacation period and when I checked my calendar after the bids closed, I had been removed from the trip. It was just pure luck that I was able to slide away from the conflict so I got the trip back, but I was never sure what would have happened if I had been unable to do that slide.