I'd really like to help the company fix the scheduling nightmare they create every summer but how am I supposed to pick up any open time when 90% of it is 4 day trips? If we only have 4 days off between 4, 5 and 6 day pairings how is this supposed to work? I can only work 6 days in a row, not 12. It's impossible. It's almost as if they really don't want us to pick anything up or they'd be breaking it into 1 and 2 day pairings.

A quick check of current DTW Cap open time shows only 4% are 1 and 2 day trips (3 out of 48) The rest are 3 and 4 days with the vast majority being 4. That means 96% are IMPOSSIBLE to for me to pick up because of 1 in 7 legality, and the other 3 are impossible because I'm already working on those days.

I find it hard to understand how the company can claim we are not picking up open time when they are making it impossible to actually pick any up.