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Swapboard - are any regions using it?????? - Ang


Posted: May 28, 2010

I am in the north region and no one is using the Swapboard except me, which does not do me any good!!  What is going on???  Any other regions actively using it???

Swapboard-are any regions using it - Oldtimer

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It is not up and runnin yet, at least not in the West region. They keep postponing it because they haven't worked out the bugs.

My region is using it, but it is only useful for - Useless for me

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part time people. It is useless for full time people because the system will not let us claim shifts/hours because scheduled for 40 hours. We cannot plan for time off ahead of time by swaping shifts because of this and have to use PTO instead.

Maybe in your group there are more full time people than part time people?

supposed to claim OT shifts from swap board - NE MT

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Yeah right, so much easier to NOT work OT rather than mess with the swap board. I used to work OT all the time, but now that we have to claim a shift I haven't picked up a shift yet. And what happens if someone wants to work OT but seeing the shifts are only posted on the hour and when they want to log in it is 30 minutes past the hour? Honestly, are they supposed to wait to work OT? Why must we claim shifts again? Yet another MQ idea that looked good on paper but not practical.


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