I will submit an FSR every time I call in sick. I will mention that I did not meet one of the IMSAFE parameters, and that FedEx no longer recognizes the government mandate for pilot self monitoring. Once the FAA gets a few thousand FSR's we might get some relief.

I'm in for $100. Lets all pull together, and retain a HIPAA lawyer. It would be like a type of "union" to help protect our livelihood, since it would appear we don't have a union in place now.

The last time I got a Dr note, he wouldn't put the reason for the visit on the letter. Even though I explicitly asked him to do so. His understanding of the law, prevented him from stating my illness to my employer. What happens when your doc won't list your illness?

Can anyone imagine what the new and improved retirement plan is going to look like? Probably need a note from your doc to allow you to retire, but only if the chief pilot believes the note. In which case if he doesn't believe it, your retirement will be moved to an upper management slush fund for them to use for dinner parties, where they discuss various pilot illnesses and they vote to determine who is the grossest guy or gal out there.

We will tout it as a win, since the word slush is in there, and we all know how hot it is in MEM right now, and who can deny that a slushy doesn't sound good when we're sitting in the cockpit without the APU running?

WINNING!