Originally Posted by TOCTOD

I just don’t buy the answer that this was SOLELY implemented to comply with the PWA. There’s something off about senior folks getting assignments they otherwise wouldn’t just because of removable “rest”. If this is the way they want to run the ship, that rest should NOT be able to be removed, even if you’re the last one standing.

Something tells me this has to do with preventing senior to mid senior folks (who can easily bid between RES and REG and wash payback days) from getting said payback days somehow. Either by dissuading them from bidding RES altogether now that they know they’ll ACTUALLY be utilized or something else…. I can just feel it