Originally Posted by PotatoChip

Exactly.
I love getting paid as much as anyone. I have VDA'd and profited very nicely, mostly due to the company's scheduling incompetence. It's baffling how much I've seen senior captains make on a two day trip simply because of a scheduling snafu that led to a VDA. It's bad business. Yet, I am going to personally capitalize when I can, just like most pilots, so long as I am following the contract.
It's much better business sense to convert LCRs, and so long as it's done within the framework of the CBA, it's all we can do but live with it and hope it results in, wait for it, an actual profit sharing check! (holds breath).