Originally Posted by
Bluedriver
Reserve is not simply "what you make of it". You forgot to mention that you don't know what your reserve period is until noon the day prior, and you can very well be assigned a 5am on call period on your 1st day of a reserve sequence so you have to commute in the day prior, losing one of your few precious days off.
It has happened to me, many times.
Overall, not a great system at all.
5am? They were gentle with you! I routinely see 0300 reports on day one and when you check the request page in Flica to see why your PM preference was ignored. There's always a big middle finger waiting on you.