Originally Posted by
ZapBrannigan
Which brings up an interesting question for you guys. What do you think about bidding for an upgrade in a month that you know you have vacation? Contract says that you don’t have to go to school during vacation, but talked with SRC and they said that the company would try to strong arm you into either moving your vacation, or cashing it out. Reason being we don’t have “alternates” in our CBA, so if you choose not to go that vacancy goes unfilled which is a problem for training scheduling, but also takes a vacancy from someone who might have actually wanted to be there.
Im in the same boat as you, I have vacation in June, July, and August. Next month I’m available is September, but by then as E6B said, it’ll be back to being way senior to me. And then there’s the age 67 monkey wrench that could grind everything to a halt real fast. (Insert Eeyore image here)
Are you kidding?! After all you’ve been through in your career, you should feel free to be a little selfish. Bid it for Juiy or August and then go in September.
If it’s in the contract that they can’t send you to training during a vacation month then who cares if they’ll try to “strong arm” you. Eff that.
Same thing for when they try to move me up for CQT. Homie don’t play that. My base month is my base month for a reason. There are alternate “creative” ways that I make sure I stay in my base month.
They have no qualms about utilizing creative contract interpretations and practices and neither should you. If they don’t like it then maybe they can come to the table and actually be open to a full rewrite.
5th & 20th.