Originally Posted by SailorJerry

See that's the issue. You assume that everyone that calls in sick is like you. I assume that most people that call in sick are sick, but some that call in sick, are not sick. I don't see how that's anything but arrogance on your part. The new sick rules give you every opportunity to use every hour of your sick leave with a developed, private rapport with your CPO. If you get sick a lot, don't stick your head in a hole and think its no one's business.

The issue at hand is the mechanism to protect the company from the abuser. Not you, not me.

You make some incredibly arrogant and blind claims on my "youthful" health, and how "great" it is, and while HIPAA laws prohibit you from ever knowing the truth, I honestly LAUGHED OUT LOUD at your sniffles. Get a neti pot and a doctors note on file with the CPO that says you have chronic sinusitis and burn every sick hour you want. Your propensity towards secrecy is the reason, however, that the company feels the need to protect itself. The new system allows you to be left alone, while the guy who's Facebook Friends with the CP who posts a picture of himself on a far away beach on a sick day gets fired.

I make no mistake on this issue. I know it and understand it well, and its abuse is present in the vast MINORITY. My argument being that's why the language exists. Hopefully NO ONE abuses more than 100 hours of sick leave per year - even though, now they can - as long as they aren't rocking out with their band on YouTube on day three of their 5 day. I see nothing concessionary or inadequate about that, nor anything concessionary or inadequate about our own individual situations.

Ed Note: An arrogant thing to say about this would be "Do all of you FPL haters post on sick leave? What's the difference?" Or "No one ever gets sick. That's absurd. Be sick on your days off" I don't recall ever casting a blanket on this mostly honorable and honest pilot group. But I did directly state that absurd, however rare, happens.