Well, they mean well. I did finagle 17 days off next month, and it's actually my first month of having a regular line. I'm optimistic that when I'm less junior (I would have said more senior, but that's just silly at my level) and there's more reserve coverage it will actually be a somewhat capable system.

Oh by the way, the people who think they just pulled this off the shelf on a whim to thwart a union drive are fooling themselves. I used to, and occasionally still do, manage databases and write web applications and this sort of thing would take months to prepare and test. And I think it did, in this case. So the timing is probably just coincidental. Either that or SkyWest is more diabolical and has much better foresight than I gave them credit for.