Originally Posted by
Pedro4President
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!
Did not know you typically got paid, regardless of transition selection (for reserve), even if it might be an oversight, it’s probably worth the risk until someone catches on. That’s good intel. Very good.
As far as the rest, I agree. Mine always ended up working out to having a RSV day removed next to a day off but I knew I was lucky. I was scratching for every penny I could at that time and thought I’d lose pay if I selected “no” and HOPED the day off would at least be next month creating 12 days total days off instead of 11, theoretically creating 4 days I could pick up OT instead of 3. There was so little OT to be had though, I don’t think I ever picked up all 4 days. I only had 4 months on reserve though so it’s not like that’s a large pool of data.