Originally Posted by
Planetrain
If the ALV is around 72-75 hours, you’d have to have 4-5 GS days on your X days to make around 100 hours. Then you’d have to get every on call day off. You are a master bidder! And then to have them short staffed on your X days, but then so over staffed they don’t have to use you on any of your on call days. And you can be selective on which GS to take and they assign most everything the night before!
My category isn’t remotely close to this gold mine.
You clearly weren't 73N B this past summer then. Because this is basically exactly what I did for about 3 months in a row, easily crediting 100+ hours and only working about 9-12 days. I was just reinstated from UNA so I was sitting about 98% and couldn't hold any weekends off (so no master bidder status for me.) First week 3 day inverse assignment Mon-Wed, dropped first weekend of reserve. Next week, 3 days green slip, next week, same thing... Repeat as often as you wanted since staffing was horrendous. Did burn myself out after a few months because I didn't have a single layover over 12 hours during that whole time, so it wasn't worth it to me to keep it up.