Originally Posted by
caddis
So this is my first month on reserve...I screwed up my December bid and i am not looking forward to this. I do want to make the best of the situation and since my category has no days with adequate coverage I figure there may be some GS opportunities. So here are my questions.
1. Where do I input my Golden Days?
2 Can I do a GS on a non Golden Day and do I still get payback days?
3. I live in base so I do not care about SC or not but do we bid for SC during the days we are on and if so how?
4. Anything else you can tell me to make this "opportunity" better?
Thanks
1. Where do I input my Golden Days?
If you haven't already done it, you won't be able to request specific Golden Days, as those needed to be entered through ICrew by the 19th. If you check your December schedule, I believe CS will have placed Golden Days on your line at their discretion. Someone else can correct me if I'm wrong, but if you didn't request specific days, then the days they will give you as Golden default to your first couple of groupings of days off, provided that those days are available to be awarded to you based on your seniority. Otherwise, they just continue on to your next stretches of days off and so on until all your Golden days have been awarded.
2 Can I do a GS on a non Golden Day and do I still get payback days?
Yes and Yes
3. I live in base so I do not care about SC or not but do we bid for SC during the days we are on and if so how?
If there are certain days you would prefer to be on SC, go to the "PCS" option in ICrew, then "Slip Requests", and "Enter Date Ranges to be First in Sequence for Short Call". You can enter the dates and whether you'd prefer AM or PM. CS is supposed to make every effort to honor requests, but it is still at their discretion. I've been about 50/50 in having them honor my requests so far.