Look you took that the wrong way. My issue with what i am paid for ready reserves is not with scheduling. I obviously know you have nothing to do with that and I do not think I implied that you do.

My issue with ready reserves is how you said you can give us readies at your discretion and it appears that scheduling uses their discretion a little too loosely at the expense of the pilot. Too many of us come in day after day and sit and do absolutely nothing. And too many times I have caught being giving a ready when there was another person junior to me that was available.

A lot of this problem I assume is not the fault of the schedulers in general but more due to their lack of knowledge of what we do since I understand many of them are new. Case in point when a scheduler tells me that "after you get in from your flight from QNY we have X assignment for you", almost fell out of my chair when I heard that one and goes to show that they do not have any idea what goes on outside the fish bowl.