Originally Posted by Qotsaautopilot

It’s more about some guys wanting to be on rsv and use float all year long with minimal conflict on actual vacation weeks. It translates into over 100hrs of what is essentially PTO to use throughout the year on top of having your full vacation weeks off. Then always rolling as close to 28hrs as possible because it’s litterally worth more the following year unless we are amendable and at year 12. Being forced to bid some terrible 75hr credit line just to use a day or two of float vacation is silly. May as well just bid the line that has the actual day off if you knew about it ahead of time. Float is great because if something comes up with the family on short notice (after the bid award) you can just drop a single float day in there. You get to be there for the kids and it cost you 4hrs out of your bank instead of having to burn 20hrs and hope for four green days together.

Losing float on rsv will affect more senior guys than I think we realize. Still a small number yes but some of them will go back to bidding lines pushing others backward to rsv that maybe didn’t want it. A lot will determine how vacation days are credited and built under PBS in a vacation month. We didn’t get much on how that will be implemented other than there will be a ASA style “vacation low” type bid to get large blocks of days off.

For some it’s more about having our vacation weeks to take a week long trip with the kids and using the saved credit for float all year long not having three weeks off at one time and burning 50hrs of vacation bank.