Originally Posted by captkdobbs

All three trips went out as RES assignments. (no YS, WS or GS). The CS checked the other two pilot's slips and neither one had any YS or other Reserve Preferences.

We were all legal and, looking at the assignment times, it went Jr., Me, Sr. (proper sequence) but the trips were assigned randomly, they weren't even assigned in numeric order, up or down.

I don't YS unless there is a trip that I actually want. There is always a chance that someone will WS/GS/YS a trip and save me from having to fly.

I understand the purpose of RES is to cover flying and accept that, when I'm on RES and 'in the bullseye', I'm packed and ready to fly. My issue is that this process (Reserve Preferences) does not seem to be honored during trip assignments and CS can't even explain why.