PBS help please!

[E_Dawg]

Here's one for those who use PBS:
just a random example, but lets say this is your layer 1 bid:

Layer1:
specific paring X
Feb 14 off


Now, if the system can't give you Feb 14 off but is able to give you pairing X, will it?

In other words, is it all or nothing, or does the system give you everything it can out of each layer?

[calcapt]

Originally Posted by E_Dawg

Now, if the system can't give you Feb 14 off but is able to give you pairing X, will it?

Yes it will.

[Cptnchia]

Hmm... ya'll must be using Carmen. The Southernjetter FA's use that jacked up program. I know it's bid time when the wife starts mumbling "damn points" under her breath.

[pilot602]

No one uses the system E_Dawg is using except his company. Everyone else has looked at it, laughed and moved on to the next software.

But to the questions, the only thing that will override a day off bid is a specific pairing (if that pairing falls on or across the day(s) requested).

But then it'll just give you what it wants anyway.

[E_Dawg]

Originally Posted by pilot602

No one uses the system E_Dawg is using except his company. Everyone else has looked at it, laughed and moved on to the next software.

But to the questions, the only thing that will override a day off bid is a specific pairing (if that pairing falls on or across the day(s) requested).

But then it'll just give you what it wants anyway.

Oh didn't know that; I figured it was somewhat standard among companies. I can't stay motivated to really learn the system, there's just sooo much to it. I'll just keep lighting incense and doing interpretive dances every bid session, it's worked okay so far.

[Ophir]

Originally Posted by E_Dawg

Here's one for those who use PBS:
just a random example, but lets say this is your layer 1 bid:

Layer1:
specific paring X
Feb 14 off


Now, if the system can't give you Feb 14 off but is able to give you pairing X, will it?

In other words, is it all or nothing, or does the system give you everything it can out of each layer?

Um, wait, you can't, or don't want to, bid for a specific pairing that falls on a day off you want. That is, in a sense, what you describe above. PBS will look at your days off first. Then it moves through the layers respecting that. If it get to layer 8, the PN layer, then it will go back and eliminate days off it needs to. Clear as mud, right?