Originally Posted by
Tummy
They could already do that. It's not unusual for me to get a 1000-2200 SC on my first on call day. Later that day, around noon, I get a notification that my SC has been truncated to 1000-1700, and I'm on SC the next day from 0500-1700.
This is the scenario that I thought about.
The earliest they can assign SC on day 1 is 10am (with the caveat that you can notify them that you're not contactable during the first 2 hours). If they assign that 10-12 SC on day one, they used to have to
modify your 12hr window if they wanted to use you earlier on day 2++ and 'robo-notify' you of 2 changes. This just saves them one step.
New scenario: 10am SC assigned day 1 (with the 2hr deal), on the hook till 7pm. With no modification they have now made you available at 7am day 2 which (on some fleets) makes you more 'usable'. Then they can shift you all the way to the earliest slot on day 3++.
I think it just saves the step that they're already doing to get you earlier on subsequent days.
I predict (for those of us junior on RES) that SC will move in a fairly predictable shift, earlier each subsequent day. Only tool we have to defend against this (for those senior enough for it to work) is to YS "if needed for SC, time XX:xx to XX:xx".
Overall, I will still take a reduction and call it an improvement.