This is why in my breakdown on post #2844, I intentionally said "Never acknowledge any micrew/icrew notification unless you have first been properly notified."

The problem is soooo many pilots simply open micrew, see a notification, and simply acknowledge it before even really seeing if the assignment is proper. Plus, if the assignment does require a phone call from scheduling, self-acknowledging removes that requirement and you are now fully on the hook for it. At a minimum, like I said, we should never be self-acknowledging anything until properly notified by scheduling, unless the assignment does not require them to call you (post rotation schedule check, placement coming off non-fly day before 12 hours prior to start of LC). Rest especially should never ever be acknowledged unless properly notified.

This also gets into why I said you should never answer the phone when scheduling calls, especially if you are not contactable (rest, training, off day). Answering the phone puts you on the hook when they go fishing like that. Plus, if they are trying to assign 30 hours rest, if you don't answer the phone they cannot start your rest for 2 hours after that phone call/voicemail. I've had them try to start rest immediately at the time of phone call for a future rotation and several hours later I've called and forced them to remove the rest and rotation and re-start a legal 30 hour rest period.

My favorite sequence:

1. Finish a 5 day spill GS. Should have PB days immediately afterward, but scheduling doesn't add them and I don't call since I'm not legal for much of anything anyways without a 30 hour rest soon.
2. SC is assigned next day (still legal for that) on the post-rotation schedule check.
3. During rest prior to SC, scheduling calls. They remove my SC, place me into 30 hours rest, and assign a future rotation. I ignore everything and acknowledge nothing because I am in rest and not contactable.
4. 2 days later I no-show the rotation I was never notified of. Scheduing removes rotation and breaks it up. Someone gets a nice 2-leg 2 day last minute GS.
5. Scheduling properly assigns me the rest of the broken rotation starting the next day.
6. That next day I call scheduling a few hours prior to report and tell them I am not legal because I haven't had a 30 hour rest in over a week now. They were still showing the 30 hour rest they gave me a few days ago but since I was never notified that wasn't legal rest for me. Scheduling removes the rotation again and then places me into 30 hours rest.
7. Once my RES days were done for the bid period I call and get my PB days in the bank.

This was during a summer when we were super short staffed and reserves were getting used every single day with rotations, and I sat at home for basically 5 days straight due to the sheer incompetence of scheduling. Plus I made 20+ additional hours cashing in the banked PB days that should have been placed on my schedule during the month. This is what I'm talking about when I say that people who know the rules and stick to them can get more time at home AND more money. Expanding the use of CNO/electronic notification in the next contract will lead to a loss in pay and QOL for many pilots. If someone is too lazy to learn the rules to the game then that's on them. There is no reason for us to make things easier for the company, especially when they make things so difficult for us.