For fNW guys:

Because of The way short call is assigned and because some pilots that were blockholders under fNW rules were forced to Reserve under DAL staffing rules.

They were the junior blockholders that used to take the 68 hours of pay to sit reserve at home.

Now we have commuters on Reserve that get a SC day, they show up for SC, they commute home on a 3 hour flight, to find a message from scheduling that they are on SC the very next morning.

SC needs to be tweaked because guys that were forced to reserve without being allowed to bid off to another plane where they could be blockholder (BP5), end up calling in sick for SC rather than be fatigued. Some improvements were mentioned in an earlier post. The randomness of SC assignment seems to be a big factor.

Just my opinion.