It’s okay when there is plenty of open time.

Reason being your block liability reduces after each reserve duty period is complete. Since you’ll never actually block the amount buffered, you become more legal as the month progresses.

Issue is in month line February, where most open time if being scarfed up straight, especially during the weekdays when a new hire is off. And TTGA is picked through. So by the time you become legal you can’t anything.

Sometime a better play for non commuters one reserve is to pick up additional reserve from open time. It’s always less competitive to bid them, and if your MTD is already high you have a good chance of not being used during the week in a slow month.

Unfortunately, the company can remove reserve from open time in January and February. Big give away a few contracts ago and wasn’t rectified this time around.