Originally Posted by
1234
Well, you can't tie their hands like that. Since reserves can only be assigned 6 short calls in a month, you can't have everyone bidding for short call (and be guaranteed to get it) at the beginning of the month.
No, but you certainly COULD bid for short call just like we do EVERYTHING ELSE that affects our work schedule... They have empiracle data on
how many short calls they use on average, and we could bid based on that data. If they require more than that.. pay/no credit (unless you fly). That would
make them justify the number of guys they have on SC every day... no more "just in case". If they want to have a few in reserve for the "just in case" scenario, then they would only bid out (for example) 80% of the historical SHORT CALL useage.. not total reserve usage... short call reserve usage on a given day so that they would have the flexibility to assign SC in the event of IROPS. There are ways to skin this cat, and hopefully this SOT will find avenues to do that. My hope is that they will take input from the line dogs and not operate in a dalpa vacuum...
Originally Posted by
1234
What would be nice is to get more visibility into who was bidding what on any given day and a guarantee that at least xx% will be allowed to be on SC a day. My guess is that this is just a beginning for good dialogue with the company to put some processes in place.
Yup