NotYet

I'm a newhire, in real need of some PBS help today or Sunday afternoon.
No answers at any of the advertised help lines, prefbid or IAH MEC office.
Emails, voicemails have been launched. Can't log in to PrefBid. The old PBS documents have been deemed obsolete, and a new one exists but can't be
found. Guess I'm on my own, unless anyone out there has any good ideas.
Any ideas?

EWRflyr

What exactly is it you need help with? Can you ask the question here and maybe someone can pipe in as to how to solve your problem? Unless of course you mean you need an A-Z rundown of how to use PBS. In that case I would see why you need their help.

To be honest, three times in the past I have asked for or tried to utilize the various experts and help options to get questions answered on PBS bidding and how something was awarded. Twice I never got responses. The third time I chatted with someone who took down my question for research with a promise to get back to me with the answer. Never happened. Other general e-mails to the scheduling committee have gone unanswered as well.

That was three strikes for them as I found them absolutely useless in responding to my needs as a member. The fact of the matter is I wouldn't need their help if they were able to write coherent documentation which fully explains PBS, Dynamic Bidding, Mixed Lines and Reserve Denial Mode bid groups.

watching6

How can they write it when it is a dynamic document based on the company needs, when the company wants a change they do it and we suffer? And it all started with a Pre-Tentative Agreement advertisement of "HONORING ABSOLUTE SENIORITY" to a contract stating, "SENIORITY WITHIN FEASABILITY".

Daytripper

Exactly!! Absolutely has to change in the new contract.

As to the new hire, the best bet in my opinion is to sit down with a line pilot side by side at the computer. Somebody who is familiar with reserve bidding. I've been here since it's inception, and it's still a WAG for me.

EWRflyr

Thanks for the confirmation. I sometimes think I am the only one who doesn't understand the literature put out even after reading it multiple times in a quiet room with no distractions. Read it and interpret it one way then read it again and get a completely different interpretation. Most of the time I read that stuff and ask myself, "Now what does THAT mean??"

Seriously, that Dynamic Bidding document and explanation of Reserve Denial bid groups is the most confusing thing I have read. And english IS my primary language!

Spicy McHaggis

Don't worry though. Once you get below the G-line and into the mixed line world, seniority no longer matters. Even more so than the splat effect above the G-line. It will build lines how it sees fit. Every month I will sit rsv while people junior to me get mixed lines. Frustrating to say the least. Even more frustrating is the union says there's no dispute. THE SYSTEM IS DESIGNED TO WORK THAT WAY.


Unbelievable.

EWRflyr

Seniority doesn't seem to matter period.

EWRflyr

I see....GIGO

Garbage IN, Garbage OUT.

That clears it up then. I've been operating under the wrong premise since I've been here.

APC225

It was a pain to scroll through a year's worth of awards just to find the current one.

"CAT Report Publication: Beginning with April PBS awards, category line reports found in PBS under the CAT Reports Tab will only display the current bid period. Prefbid which has always had archived CAT reports will now become the sole source for referencing these documents. Whereas initially many bidders requested previous months' CAT reports to be published alongside current months, recent feedback indicates the majority would prefer this new approach."

pilot64golfer

PBS programming ability outweighs seniority.

This specific PBS system is a joke. And the worst part is that its a joke on us.

If you want your kids to make a ton of money in their lifetimes, encourage them to become UI/UX designers, because apparently there is a worldwide shortage of them.