When I was active we were asked to give up positions so we created bogus positions and the offered them as part of our down sizing. Just didn’t file the crated positions and were hero’s. We also had positions that we never filled just keep them in case we were asked to down size.
Yep, I remember that bogus billet strategy. You’d have twelve positions of “X” and the manpower guys refused to fill more than ten of them. So when cut order came....you happily gave up two, but then you were shocked as the manpower guys now refused to fill more than eight slots. There is a plus and minus to this strategy.