Originally Posted by Boulderian;1613162·

ALL vacation that you elected to bid in the annual process prior to the Primary Cycle WILL be awarded in the Tertiary cycle. The system will award you as many vacations as it needs to (in increments of at least 7 days) to award all your remaining vacation days. If you don’t put in enough bids or can’t hold what you do bid, the system will automatically assign you a vacation as follows:
o Beginning at week 26 (10/24/14) and working backward to week 1 (5/1/14) the system will try to assign as many of the days you have available as possible. Then it will work from Week 27 (10/31/14) to Week 52 (4/24/2015) doing the same. The system will decrease the amount of vacation it tries to assign until it is able to assign all your vacation somewhere.

Originally Posted by 130drvr (Post 1619083)

How do you bid in PBS to maximize the effectiveness of your vacation? I want as much work awarded during my vacation as possible to reduce my overall number of duty days during May. I have a 12 day block in the middle if the month. Do I use the Award work command for my vacation dates or Avoid work commands for blocks of days outside my vacation?