All,

Hope everyone is having a good week. Only 37 shopping days left until Christmas! Please at least read the following about the bid.

Bid Update

Ok so we are done with round 4. Round 5 is the one where everyone can bid accumulated leave. This means that we need to know everyone’s accumulated leave. Lora Singh is suppose to give us those totals but I won’t be able to get them from her until at least tomorrow, possible Tuesday. So we are paused until then. In the meantime, please look up the amount of carryover leave you will have going into 2020. That way we can double check the numbers we get from Lora.

An important thing to remember — you may technically have a carryover (accumulated) balance but if you have those days requested already in 2019 (approved or not) you CAN NOT BID THEM in round 5. For example, I have 3 days of leave requested around Christmas that are not currently approved and may not ever get approved. My accumulated balance will show those 3 days in it, however, I cannot bid those days though because I already have them requested. If you mess this up and go over it’ll be a huge mess and you will have to go in and delete some requests and no one wants that to happen. It is also unfair to those people who save their leave for this purpose.

As for how round 5 will go…the website is not set up to handle the way that we do round 5. So I am thinking the safest way for us to do it is for me to notify each person individually and say “Ok, there are 31 slots remaining and you can bid X number of them.” Then I will make you eligible to bid and hopefully it will let you input your bid, if not then I will have to do it manually. This is going to be a bit tedious so please bare with me through these trying times.

If you do NOT intend to bid any days in round 5, please let me know ASAP so we don’t have to go through the trouble of figuring out your accumulated balance and all that. This includes trainees. Please let me know if you are not going to bid in round 5.

BTG Delay Times

Garret is working with FAST on setting up a build of this in the lab. This would allow us to see what it looks like before we put it in place on the floor. One thing we are working on is whether or not we want to see both lists. I think for now we should leave both and then we can toggle it on and off as we sit fit on sector. More to come on this as we know it.

In Solidarity,

Drew