Originally Posted by
Hrkdrivr
The only risk is you get your PD, someone else WS the trip you wanted, and someone senior to you has a blind WS in and picks up the trip you dropped, then you're stuck with nothing.
But I've used this to good effect in a category where people quickly WS almost anything that drops into open time.
You do want to make sure there is coverage to drop your original trip. If not it becomes a Q trip. You can’t WS your own Q trip but anyone junior to you can. Learned this the hard way.