Originally Posted by
TED74
It seems that you can only request one block of days from 1 to 5 days long. If this is a bid and you don't get what you request, what happens? Do they put five days somewhere else? Do you get none? Weird that you can't fit any alternatives to your primary request. Or maybe I misunderstand how it works. Presumably a whole category can't be awarded golden days not to train over Christmas?
My understanding is the "golden days" bid in Icrew is binding, but it only protects up to 5 days.
On top of that you can go into PBS and input a "training bid" which you can ask for whatever you want, ie train/don't train, days to avoid, periods to avoid. Of course the PBS bid seems almost purely advisory although when I use it I seem to get weekends off which was my main goal anyway. You can use PBS to request or avoid all sorts of things in your training bid.