It's also weird to see 15 people put in POT bids for the line I get assigned as a reserve pilot, I don't have "own" preferenced, and I put it into open time the instant I find out that I'm assigned the trip, yet nobody picks up the trip. Then those same people complain that there's no open time.
Cry me a river. I'll fly straight time as a new guy and like it (please sir may I have another bowl of gruel), because it's the only game in town. A guy who's straight time rates are twice mine complaining that he can't get POT on a line he bid for but that I'm flying just doesn't get much sympathy. They can fly those trips at double the pay I get, any time they like. I suppose 10 years from now I might have a different opinion but right now it doesn't trigger my sympathy brain cell.