b52…

"Just saying"?

What exactly does that mean? Am I being admonished for taking this bid? Of course no one forced you to take that bid just as no one forced me to take mine. Did I complain about my latest bid or infer that I somehow got the shaft? Does offering suggestive criticisms automatically imply that I’m clueless as to how I wound up in this seat? I merely commented about a system which our union placed as one bullet point during the proposed contract extension. I bid this seat fully aware that there was a good chance that I’d be on reserve. Reserve duty is nothing new to me. But by the time I went to training and checked out I was a line holder. It was a pleasant surprise. Svergin suggested that “other than new hires, who is sitting reserve in a base that didn’t take an upgrade from something they were holding a line on?"

I answered his question by pointing out the 40 some odd guys in one seat, at one domicile who have beed bumped to reserve. None of whom were new hires.