Originally Posted by
Profane Kahuna
No one was asking you to apologize. No one was making assumptions about your work life balance. They are flat out saying you are wasting a vacation week.
Oh, and you won’t be able to hold summer weeks at 50% on the Captain side. Everyone above you will be block bidding them 5 at a time and then humble bragging about it on APC.
No the 50% was the advertised summer week drop for the new vacation system we voted in. Nobody can block bid then. Limited to two vacation weeks at a time, so they were saying it would cause the summer weeks to fall down to 50% of the Captain list. I’d have a better chance of getting summer vacation if we kept it as is through trading. But that’s a dead horse.
Yes, people were making assumptions about people who pick up trips over vacation. Agree to disagree. We have a contract, I work within the boundaries of that contract to benefit my family and me the best I see fit and I don’t make judgements about other union members doing the same. I might get frustrated when seniority causes something to not work out my way, but I don’t say it’s a garbage move, because that’s the system I signed up for.