Originally Posted by
highfarfast
On reserve, you'll need to bid for a schedule for one month that ends in a bunch of reserve days and then bid for a schedule for the following month that has a bunch of reserve days so that you end up with 7 straight days of reserve. You can help this along by adding OT on the last days you have off for the first month but you'll need to do it before the bid for the next month is out.
Having said that, looking back on my HI10 for when I was reserve, it looks like they didn't code it as TL, looks like it was coded as 7D... and I have always selected 'yes' for the transition. I didn't audit my pay back then, hope I was getting paid for those dropped days. There's no TL on my HI10 until I started holding a line.
So for those of you commuters out there here is some advice. 1) Work the last 6 days of the month. 2) Bid a line that gets off on the 2nd and 3rd day of the month. 3) Don't bid the transition. (You still get paid for it.) Or at least I have always been paid when I forgot to select the transition.
Doing these three things will create a 6 on 3 or 4 off schedule guaranteed. Do anything else and you could end up with a random day off in the middle somewhere. If you string together anymore than 7 days then you will get a group of days on with 1 day off in the middle somewhere. What some guys are doing is stringing 7 days of work in a row and expecting the company to give them a day off that bumps up next to a day off. However, when you bid the transition you let the company give you a 3 on 1 off 3 on schedule and as a commuter it sucks!