Anyone have experience with this?
Does this mean if you conflict R days with vacation days or the 48 hr buffer that they will give you those days back if you so choose?

From VIPS:

If you have scheduled vacation and are awarded a Reserve Line, you will be compensated RLG and part of your reserve line may be reconstructed. Your vacation bank will be adjusted R-Day Value multiplied by the number of vacation days in the NOV07 bid period. You will then be scheduled for a number of R-days equal to the number of monthly scheduled R-days, less the total number of vacation days.

The reconstructed line will contain the originally scheduled blocks of R-days that do not conflict with the actual vacation, vacation extension, or the vacation buffers, unless the number of R-days in those block(s) plus the number of vacation days exceeds the number of R-days in the bid period (in other words, your vacation conflicts with fewer R-days than the number of vacation days). In that case, the line will be reconstructed preserving the greatest number of originally scheduled R-Day blocks as possible.

With this in mind, use the space provided below to indicate any special preferences you may have for reconstructing your reserve line:

 

The Buffer days will be given back, but the VAC days will come out of your VAC bank!

Example: I had VAC last month and knocked out 7 R days (did not extend VAC) with VAC and hit 2 R days with buffer. The buffer days were moved to earlier in the month!

 

Thanks, the verbage in vips was not caveman friendly.

 

I've done this several times. I usually extend my 7 R days into 10 R days off with pay. The futures scheduler then rebuilds the rest of your line (the remaining 5 R days in this case). They can (and frequently will) put them anywhere, having nothing to do with their original placement in the month.

That said ... thay almost always leave the carry-in R days alone if it doesn't conflict your vacation.

Hope this helps ....

Questions? Call your futures scheduler ...

 

I sure would like to talk to futures but with the bid award friday afternoon and the conflict widow closing at 0700 monday APC was my best source of knowledge...scary.