Originally Posted by
tennisguru
A different strategy would be to drop the IVDs on days 2 and 4. Day 3 becomes basically a guaranteed day off since you can’t report before 1800. This method also protects day 5 the same way.
This of course uses 2 occurrences of your IVD's. If you'd rather not do that another strategy (assuming you have enough coverage) would be to IVD day 2 and simply PD day 4 and take the pay hit.
This is a what I do if I have a bunch of PB days in the bank, but not very efficient use of IVD's, though it would mostly likely do the job.
jalco4 I usually IVD a single day in the middle of the 5 day block. Leaves me open for 2 days on either side, but worst case you spend 2 nights away in a 5 day period, but often it's likely only to be one. One thing to consider is where you'll fall on the coverage list. I've had it where if I had simply kept my days intact, I'd have been better off. As in I was buried on the 4 day block, but ended up being at/near the top of the 2 day block.