Originally Posted by
Ultralight
I would love to hear the phone conversation with the chief pilot for that one.
"I'm calling in sick because I had to stay awake all day."
Vilcas, pull your head out of your fart pipe, smell the coffee, and get yourself a reality check!
So you advocate flying while fatigued? If you are fatigued due to work, you call out fatigued. If you're fatigued due to other than work reasons, you call out sick. It is unfair to the rest of your crew to show up to work unable to effectively do your job, commuter or not.
Also, when have you ever had to explain why you are calling out sick? The most an employer can ask of you is to get a doctor's note, which only has to say you went to the doctor or are under the care of said doctor. Most companies I know of only do that when said employee has called out sick an excessive amount of times in a short period.
Privacy laws prevent you from having to disclose why you called out sick.