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Old 07-05-2013 | 09:56 AM
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Originally Posted by johnso29
My buddy was out sick for 3 consecutive trips. Not one call. Maybe....just maybe the guys that are receiving calls have shown a pattern?
Once again Johnso is sounding like a corporate salesman and slanting the view. Three pages after he posted this, Superpilot told the real story.
This wasn't a guy just missing three trips with unverified sick with no doctor visit head cold, it was a guy with a hospital surgery and thus a ton of "verify"-worthy paperwork.

And YES HE DID get a call from the company! In another post Johnso slants his case again saying "Then he chose to call and verify it because he would exceed 100 hours of usage", while Superpilot tells the real story, " The Chief pilot called after 15 days consecutive out to ask if i was ok and if i was going to verify it."

It doesn't really matter which of the three triggers the CPO tells you caused him to call... either you get a call or you don't from the company asking "Hey what's up with your sick? can you explain it to me (we're here to help etc. if we think it doesn't sound fishy...)". He just posted that he did get a call.

Of course guys who get calls have "shown a pattern"! A pattern of USING THEIR SICK LEAVE, and not being as healthy as the guy sitting at a desk checking up on them. This excuse of "good faith, they showed a pattern of badness man!" is exactly akin to this type of thinking by police:
"Every one is treated the same under the laws, but we pull THESE guys over and frisk them a lot more because they show a suspicious pattern--they're black, they live in this ghetto, they were walking around and not in an office working, and they were younger than forty! CLEARLY a nefarious pattern that justifies us calling them to check on their so-called-sick-leave, err I mean jacking them up and frisking them."

The proof of "liberty" and a culture of freedom isn't in pointing to a few cases where someone was NOT violated, if you can ALSO point to folks who WERE violated! That is absolutely faulty logic that even a middle-school debate club wouldn't miss. This is a logic "truth" test-- it's true until you can find one example of falseness, and then it is FALSE, proven.

We've got cases of folks getting called at home in the first month for sick use, case closed. Pointing to a guy who had spinal surgery who "stayed up front with everything and kept in contact with the company", who got called at 15 days to verify his sick leave, is NOT proof that everything's hunky-dory...

Generally disappointed with the thinking from Johnso, starting to seriously think he may be Bill Lumberg...