Really, ready reserve should not be allowed. All reserve should be long call, with the company converting to short call as needed.

Scheduling used to be able to assign ready reserve to anyone they wanted, the problem with that was, once you started getting around 50ish hours, all you got for the rest of the month was ready reserve. Then, once you got to 75, they stopped calling altogether.

Reserve used to be significantly worse than it is now, much much worse, I can't stress that enough. I once did a five day stretch, they called me at 5am, deadhead to MEM, rest for 8 hours, fly a high speed, rest for 30 hours out of base, then fly a two day, followed by PM ready on the last day.