Originally Posted by flyallnite

And so you'll be intentionally violating the FOM. You may or may not be called on the carpet for that. And the many new hires we're about to get could face termination.

This isn't the old Delta, slap on the back have a nice day. I don't ever want to be in a position where I'm explaining myself to the CP these days. Hey, good time to review sick usage and uniform inspection though, right? Yeah, that'll never come back to bite us either.

Originally Posted by flyallnite

Wrong.

The FOM defines 'should' as follows-

"The word 'should' is used to indicate that compliance is expected. Deviations are permitted only where an operational requirement exists."

The word 'may' is used when compliance is not mandatory.