Originally Posted by
busdriver12
Forget about it. If the company wants a sick note, I'll provide a sick note. Even if I'm off a one day trip for a cold. If they want me to go to the doctor, and FedEx wants to pay the $200 doctor's visit charge, and whatever blood tests the doc might order up, even for a freaking cold, it's their money, they can spend it. I have no problem ponying up the $20 copay to avoid harassment. They want a doctor's note, they got it.
Though it's kind of embarrassing when the doctor laughs and says it's kind of weird that we're being treated like grade school kids. I can handle it.
That seems like a fine strategy until you are in the market for post-retirement life insurance or healthcare insurance and you get to that question on the application, "How many times have you visited a doctor in the past year?" They won't care if the visits are for real health problems or for untethered Assistant Chief Pilot problems -- they just want the number, and it may affect your eligibility and/or rates.
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