11-20-2023Quote:
I understand your logic, however, I thought the idea was to help your union negotiate a contract, and in that regard, you're giving back to the company, flexibility, by conflicting trips with vacation time, only to pick up make-up trips out of open time. Why not do that next year, or perhaps after a new contract is negotiated, and not at this particular time?
Originally Posted by Jetjok
Busdriver12,I understand your logic, however, I thought the idea was to help your union negotiate a contract, and in that regard, you're giving back to the company, flexibility, by conflicting trips with vacation time, only to pick up make-up trips out of open time. Why not do that next year, or perhaps after a new contract is negotiated, and not at this particular time?
Sure, I completely understand what you're talking about. You guys are talking this specific year, and I am considering generalities of any year. It would be much more beneficial to start this at the beginning of the year that you had vacation. It really is similar to what the OP is saying, except he is saying to pick up lost trips in vacation makeup, and I'm suggesting to pick up trips in regular makeup (except of course, you lose any priority).
For example, if you use his method to knock out large blocks of trips in vacation, go way over your bank, but yet still fly a vacation month (ie fly one 7 day trip)....do that for your 3-4 vacation periods over the year, that particular year could be comparatively higher than average. The next year would be very low. I don't see the negative in doing that, unless you knew you couldn't live with a low year. And most people can't, but some of us can.
