A comment on the Swamp Board -- sm - ververyoldMT

Okay, so in my experience in trying to be compliant on making up time and "switching" swapping time when I had a funeral to attend.   No problem picking up the times, but here is what happens.   When I have had NJA or something happened which required a 30 min here or there I wanted to pick up and make up the hours.   Well, in theory it would seem to be good; but in reality it ADDED hours to my schedule and kept my original 24 hours per week.   This "swap" board does not have a way of just adding hours to those missed (for whatever reason, NJA, computer glitches) making up the deficit.  

I know I am being clear as mud.   Here is my example of what happened to me.   I am normally scheduled 24 hours a week.  Most Pay periods I have 48-49 hours; others have no more than 52 hours to be scheduled.   A pay week I was sick and could not work a 2-hour shift I had.   Okay, it was too late to put it on swamp board, but I was told just pick up the missed hours from someone else on the other days left in  my payperiod.  I did, and ended up with 69 HOURS that my timesheet in SS told me I had to work that pay period.   Oh man.  Then I was told just unclaim the shifts????  You can't do that if they have already passed!!!!.   So, guess what, we MTs are left with being out of compliance...  I still have not been able to make myself understood about this.

With lockout we have to claim more time, but it adds it does not Swap!!!! 

Yep a real murky Catch 22 swamp land....  Has anyone else seen this, or am I just a confused trooper here?  Would it be remiss to put it on the suggestion "box" MQ has about questions and comments?