BASHLH
Thanks for I think being quite brave in sharing your thoughts with us. As you rightly pointed out there are times when family and personal life is more important than bidding for command. Hope it works out for you.
Lead
Do the company/CC recognise the lifestyle issues on SH?
They are being made aware...despite that it seems from discussion elsewhere that there's a least one individual (Long hauler) who has recently discovered his roster has been massaged to the extent that it contains only three clear days at home in the whole of July. Certainly some have found that if you have a month fully available to the company (no leave/DFW) and are not an appointment holder then "cunning bidding" provides no protection whatever from a major roster rewrite and loss of desired day(s) off.
The rule set has changed forever. Hopefully recruitment ( that's where a lot of you guys come in) will reduce the scale of the problems some people are trying to cope with at the moment, but what we certainly won't see is a return to the status quo ante otherwise known as "Bidline".