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This is how it's supposed to work, but the company just blasts it out (probably to everyone that has availability); then it's first come first served. Whether or not you are you're "junior" matters not.
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Unfortunately, inverse assignment morphed from a bad thing, as in being forced to work on your day off when you don't want to, and is actually limited because of that into whatever it is now. Now people gobble up as much time as they can, so that part of it is lost from the zeitgeist.
If you actually ran IA the way it was supposed to, under the current envrionment, the senior pilots would lose their minds, because now you're letting junior go first for a no-trigger green slip. That would last all of 10 minutes before the reps got floodeded with calls from senior pilots demanding a change. OTOH, if they actually went by the list, and forced junior people to work on days off who didn't want to, there'd be a similar revolt.