Originally Posted by
EGTrise
Notice that there is no more voluntary sick verification. That's not an accident.
That is the key to the whole sick time issue, and they know it. There is no good way to preserve unverified sick time in this TA.
We need unverified sick time.
Because there are lots of reasons why we cannot fly and yet at the same time cannot verify a sickness. Im sure you can think of more than a few.
I don't know, maybe you are getting a divorce. Maybe your parents were in a terrible accident. Maybe your teenage daughter got pregnant. There may be lots of reasons you are temporarily or suddenly emotionally unfit to fly for a day or more. You can't go to a doctor to get a note for that and its not your chief pilot's or DHS's business to know your personal problems.
Oh, I forgot. Pilots are supermen. We don't have personal problems.
But the bean counters and desk jockeys can just pop a Xanax and go to work. No problem.