Dumbest Comment Ever

Someone posted this stupidity:

• You do not have a bid if you are a buy back.

This came up during our hiatus, and we regretted not being able to address it at the time.

The Department's contention was that when your day off was cancelled, you had neither a watch nor a day off group, so they could deploy you at will. We believe the FOP lost this in front of the arbitrator, a ninety-something year old Biden clone.

What the actual f#$%? 

• if you don't have a Day Off Group on your actual days off, then what's the point of even scheduling days off?
• if you don't have a Watch, whats the point of bidding for one every year? 
• for that matter, what's the point of having scheduled Start Times if the City can just willy-nilly schedule you for Third Watch or Midnights whenever your non-existent days off come around?

Someone could be working what was their Friday on Third Watch and run up against a cancelled day off, and the City/Department could say, "You're working First Watch on your cancelled day off," meaning it was right back into a squad car for a back-to-back shift. Seventeen hours minimum

And that shift could be anywhere in the city.

You ALWAYS have a Day Off Group, a Watch and a Start Time. That's the point of seniority. Otherwise, the Contract is a joke and you are essentially a slave to the whims of the Department. 

There's a lawsuit in there somewhere. Unless the City wants to pay cops for every off-duty hour spent on-call, blowing up their chances to be with their kids, attend family functions and generally unwind from an increasingly stressful atmosphere, then we're sure a bunch of people would take the overnight approximate 40% raise.