Why would I not answer?

And no, didn't miss the emoticon but also didn't want you to misunderstand my irritation.

Jumpseat-if FC wants to remove me with pay, all for it. Last line of defense is pilot judgment , and although judgment is impaired by fatigue absent some concrete actions at show time there is absolutely no reason for FC to intervene. (it's never been CRS in my experience, CRS would have no issues scheduling us for 24 hours straight if the computer would let them...I have had CRS use judgment, but it's a rare rare thing. Also never had a DO not support me when I pushed back on CRS BS plan. But I've only been a Capt for about 5 years, so that's recent history)
Back to the JS, our own CBA says that if the FAA ever considers JS duty time that the contractual section becomes null and void.

Back to sick. When I wake up with a cold that's gone from minor to severe, I know that it takes me about a week to recover. If it's 24-48 hours prior to show, then I call in sick. When I scratched my cornea, that's a week+ to recover, so I immediately called in sick. There is nothing preventing me from calling in well prior to the drop time if I recover quicker then expected...but that's not been my experience.
When I became ill driving into the AOC at 1 in the morning, I actually did call CRS and tell them I was sick.

United for awhile required a Drs note with every sick call. American requires their pilots to talk to an actual person to use their SL.

DOL allows companies to ask you for medical documentation in certain circumstances.
Our own contract has a long, long history of allowing the company to request information as to why we called in sick under certain circumstances.

If you're the guy being asked for a note on July 12th and you haven't called in sick for 3 years...then ask the company to explain their good faith reason for doing so, as for me, after pushing back I'm going to tell them I had GI issues (if I did) and offer to provide pictures for future occurrences should theu so desire.

If they say not good enough, then sorry, still filing an ASAP report because quite frankly taking away pay is definitely an illustration of pilot pushing and should be documented as such.

There are exactly 0 trips open in my seat. Explain to me how RTT makes my life better. Would reduce the annoyance of waiting/wondering if a trip went through. But I already have a pretty decent idea of my odds since the software change showing pending trades on specific trips.

Make OTP a never go away provision and then we'll talk about RTT