Straighttalk,
RSV assignments are out by 1900 when the tape goes on. We can plot them at whatever time you want us too. As someone else pointed out, sick calls will come after the tape goes on and we will still be calling people.
I have no idea what the companies motivation is but if the sick list were to clear before the time limit for AVBL’s did (hell screw the sick list, allow the AVBLS to plot till 1700) then they will get a better selection of trips and we will not plot them on the stuff they don’t want and won’t feel like reserves.
Skymess,
I don’t care about how, when someone calls in sick. Most do not give a firm date so the trips just hang there. As I said above, if the AVBLS could have a shot at the sick list, then we would not be plotting you and you would not be the company #### as often (someone is going to get assigned the 3D Carib sequence but someone will have a shot at FCO, GRU or some of the other good stuff as well. This has nothing to do with the sick list or those who abuse it. That’s a different thread and a different issue.
You can get your trips at 5p, hell you can have them at 12n for all I care. As someone else mentioned, we get a lot of sick calls after the tape goes on as it is (that’s why I do not run my last round of MU till 1800 and plot by 1845 or so because I hate running MU 10 times between 1600-1900 for all the sick calls. Bottom line is we will still be calling a good number of reserves after the tape goes on for sick calls.
Skymess, are you telling me you don’t look at the sick list and wish you had a shot at some of those trips before all the senior people snatch them up on MU because they dumped their entire line? Because the way it sits right now, all you can do is look at them and dream.
Youbetcha,
How does 4 hours make such a difference? I guess I just don’t see it. If I am sick at 1600, I’m sick at 1200. I get the impression that most know I they will be on a trip or not well before that time. That time is just as random as 21 is for the drinking age. Someone picked an age and went with it. There is no science behind it.
If you make them use a “firm†date then they will just call in for one trip and extend the date trip by trip.
As for the commuters, screw them. I work where I live and live where I work (I know, a novel idea). Why we cater to commuters is beyond me.
Added stress of early clearance? OH please.
I’m not so certain it is a “give away†as some have said. AVBL does not have to be offered. Part of the plan for this past 2007 holiday was to have AVBL’s at the end of the month to pick up the sequences. We told bean counters (what a bunch of idiots) that the AVBLS would not help because the sick list clears after the AVBL window. We release AVBL’s by the truck load. I think someone might have finally realized the problem with AVBL/SK list. If they have, you might see a huge reduction in AVBL lines and an increase in RSV lines since as it stands not, AVBL is useless. So perhaps a better way to look at this is clearing the sick list earlier might help save your AVBL lines. Just an idea.