Buried in your posts are some good points. RR pay is complicated and it would be nice if it was easier to calculate. Waiting on hold for 2-3 hrs during an IROP to talk to a live scheduler is a burden.

However, if you had a rotation go from 3 to 4 days and you're not happy with the RR pay you got might want to recalculate (I know, the horror) and check the Co's work. Even the most basic RR going into another day should pay handsomely. And, I too, sometimes bid for a trip for a specific layover. It's nice to fly a trip as built. It's also nice to earn an additional 5-10 hours of pay to often do less work but not go where I bid. That's one, two, etc. less days I have to work the next month.

Being upset that it's 'hard' to make the Co follow our contactable and noncontactable provisions seems like you're missing the forest for the trees. At a previous carrier we were on a constant 10 hr leash with a Co provided device while on a layover. It was certainly easy. They sent a message at any time saying, you're going into rest now and you had to acknowledge.

Our rules protect our layover QOL and are hard fought and we should not give them up out of a desire for convience. New ideas and perspectives are good, but maybe take a minute to listen to those pilots that have been here for a bit longer than you.