Originally Posted by
Short Bus Drive
God forbid you live within the means of your monthly guarantee!!!

The rest is gravy. There are others trying to ACTUALLY feed their family (not the SUV, or boat, or whatever,...), on unemployment, COBRA, etc., while people are picking up "extra money".
IMO.
Why someone is picking "extra time" may not really be extra time. Very often my "extra time" (a white slip at Delta) is very often a result of "fixing" my schedule by drop and pick up or swaps. I have rarely broken guarantee and yet have lots of white slips. Another thing to remember is those flights will get flown by someone so not picking them up is not going to help guys on furlough. Another thing to remember is some of us have a lot of leftover bills and missed savings to make up for due to furlough (4 years for me). So if happen to pick up a white slip, green slip (2x pay) I'm not apologizing for doing it (we don't have any furloughs right now.