Originally Posted by rustypigeon

I am wondering how many of you work for airlines with policies that punish those who call in fatigued/sick. Some airlines, if you miss work for any reason; sick, fatigue, accident, car won't start, etc. you get an "occurence" after a so many occurences you get suspended, then after, I believe it is the 7th occurence in a year you are "subject to probable termination" This only applies to the pilots of course, management can stay home when they are sick. Hardly a week goes by that I am not flying with someone nodding off, or coughing and sneezing all over the place. Everyone wants to save a few extra occurances for those times that they are "really, really sick". This policy is all in the FAA approved FOM. The FAA knows if anything ever happens, they will just blame it on pilot error.