TED74, your premise above seems to be a search for some type of plausible deniability that causes CS to "wipe an assignment out" if its published report time happens to fall within 2 hours of your short call start time. As a short call pilot, this is not your concern. You are not going to be marked "late" for reporting to an assignmentafter the published report time, if you report pursuant to the definition of "promptly available" when notified. The published report time for any given rotation is completely irrelevant when you are on short call, if it happens to conflict with the parameters I just laid out.

For a pilot living in base, exercising the non-contactable option is actually more work, and more of a burden than necessary. Why? For one, you have to call Crew Scheduling. Once you do that, you have signed up to check your schedule. Rather than risk forgetting to do that (I stay busy outside of work), I'd rather have Crew Scheduling call me to notify me of an assignment per usual. Their number is set to emergency override in my phone and will bypass Silent Mode. If they forget to call, that is not my problem. On the other hand, if after exercising the non-contactable option, I forget to check my schedule, and I miss an assignment as a result, that is on me.