Basiclly, from the day you call in SK, until well is counted as sick days.

Not just the actual days of work missed.

Example.

You call in sick the day before a four day trip. (Sunday)
The trip, 4 days, is Mon-Thur.

You forget or don't call in well until the following Sunday. (Regardless of when really well).

So, instead of counting that as one sick call at four days missed (lost) work, the company counts it as 7 days out sick.

That's the short of it.... So when DAL says we use more sick time, it's flawed. I forgot to call in well because it's a new system for me. Now my missed work log (whatever it's called, either in iCrew or PAS) shows me out 12 days even though I only was out for a 3 day trip. So to the company it looks like I used 4 times the amount of SK I actually used.