I don't know if I decoded a double negatives properly or missed an earlier comment, so this isn't directly calling you out, but I want to emphasize that we, as a pilot group, need throw away this way of thinking, that any reserve day you are not called is a "free day off," into the trash bin of history.

Unless I am free of any and all company duties, it is a worked day. Period. Just because the schedule held, nothing broke, or the company decided not to utilize me to fix a likely self-inflicted problem, is irrelevant. We all sell ourselves short in thinking that just because we didn't have to put on the monkey suit, it "didn't count." Every other industry that has "on call" work, is usually paid at top dollar because it is severely disruptive to our personal lives, not to mention the harm that comes from sleep disruption, etc. Why is our industry different? Why do we tolerate this? This sounds like "Alaska discount" self-sabotage thinking and it needs to stop.

Reserves are how you properly staff a resilient and durable operation, (aka the cost of business) and this company has been able to skate by on being able to resort to PDX bailing out SEA or vice-versa to run razor thin reserve staffing in SEA. And before you all get wound up, I am well aware that there are no "free lunch" in life, and we aren't going to get 100% of everything we want, but if the company wants to play stupid games, then we need to ensure we at least get the stupid prize.