All,
I hope everyone is having a good week. The bid is moving along nicely but we gotta keep the pace up or we will run into issues with publishing.
El Bid
The bid is still ongoing, we are almost done with round 3. Anyone who earns 20 days per year or less will not be included in rounds 4 and 5. Those rounds will only be the 26 day earners. They can bid 5 days wherever they want in round 4 and 1 day in round 5. Then round 6 will allow people to bid any remaining accrued or accumulated leave in the remaining slots. Keep in mind that after round 5 we will be reducing down to only the 700 total slots that we are entitled to.
AWS Requests (Dream Lines)
If you have not received an email from me regarding your AWS or “Dream Line” then it was not approved. I have kept all the sheets and am happy to sit down and explain to you why it didn’t work but I’ll give a couple of general explanations in this email.
There were some that were smaller moves (0800 to a 0700 or 1400 to 1300) that seem on the surface like they would be fine to do but we have a minimum number of each shift that we have to publish the schedule with. For example we have to have 3 0600 shifts. So going under that number will usually be fine after the schedule posts (assuming no one is on leave) but we couldn’t change the agreed upon schedule to go under those numbers at publishing. So some that seem like “easy” ones were denied for that reason.
Bigger moves like full RDO changes or swing to day shifts we were also not able to accommodate because of how tight we built the schedule. We have exactly what we need to make it all work and any changes to that collapses our house of cards. If we had had 33 lines, this would be a different story. However, 32 is pretty much the exact number we need to make the D area run, anything on top of that and we get to start being more creative.
In Solidarity,
Drew