Originally Posted by
USMCFLYR
Yes - let's concentrate on the sick day useage rather than any of the following:
If I need a day off for being sick - I'm going to use a annual leave day before I use sick leave.
I'm going to bank my sick days. I do have a max annual allowed and I have no limit on sick.
At the end of a career, I can apply my sick towards retirement.
I don't know if the Captain is under a similar system or not, but it certainly isn't admitting to anything *illegal* if at the end of my career I hadn't used a sick day.
Some people's glass half empty just spilled and they need to find something wrong in everything.
Sick leave is use it or lose it. Poof, it's gone when you retire. It does not fall under another sort of leave.
I've got to say, that line about never calling in sick was the one thing that did strike me as strange. If someone does that on a 44 year career, they came to work sick at least once.
That being said, no one should use that to detract that from his incredible career. Cal is one of the nicest people that you'll ever meet, and I've never heard anyone say anything remotely negative about him. He's just that good of a guy.