Originally Posted by symbian simian

Quoted the troll without the screenname, hope that works for all


And that is why PBS is a "NO" for me. Most months the reserve grid is much more green than required before IOT starts so lines could have been build with more days off (and more soft time, or more days of for reserves) but the company wants us to drop the trips and lose the pay. Even with line bidding they will not honor the contract, and we need "at least twice a month", or "minimum 15/16 days off average for hard lines" added to the current language. PBS would be a can of worms were it would take the scheduling committee man-years every month to see if the company was following the contract.

As an example I was awarded a relief line (relief lines for all=PBS), I asked for a block of days off. In my award I had a block of reserve days exactly covering the days I wanted off, and all those days were green by +10 on the grid. Also at the beginning of the month I had a block of 5 days off were reserve was -10 red. I had the scheduling committee look at it and 3 guys with lower seniority then mine were awarded days off in my block of reserve. I ended up being able to get rid of the block but it was hours of work. Do we really want that?