Originally Posted by
FangsF15
The first and second (leftmost) questions on the GS form are "Ack" on/off duty which is actually the second ARCOS step. The third and fourth (rightmost) question is "Auto Accept" on/off duty which is the first ARCOS step, and the one you want to say "Yes" to if you want to only get a phone call in the middle of the night if you actually got a rotation. Right? RIGHT? No wonder it's confusing.
Correct.
Originally Posted by
crewdawg
Confusing for sure! Last I checked, we all read left to right, so why it's not input that way is beyond me. Like you, I've always just put a yes for both auto ack and accept, or no to all, so it's never been a problem until now. In my brain, both terms makes sense either way you look at it, which just adds to the confusion.
It's easy peasy. Putting in a slip is asking for any trip that meets the slip parameters. Accepting an ARCOS trip actually means acknowledging you are willing to do that specific trip if you become #1 for it. And acknowledging a trip actually means accepting it because you were #1 for it. What's so confusing? 🤣
Accepting should do what acknowledging currently does, but it doesn't. It would be a lot less confusing if it was auto-proffer and auto-accept or auto-want and auto-confirm or many other options.