Originally Posted by
Ijustlikeflying
They keep sending these company surveys etc. and you know what I’d like to see...
...The company to get off our back for sick calls. You get 4 and guess what, if you use them beyond that then they have every right to request doctors notes and investigate. It is pathetic that we are in a industry of professionals and we are treated like 4th grade parochial school kids.
“Now little Johnny, I’m going to need that doctors note from your mommy...or you will have to serve detention”
...in our case a mark on our record with AAG or even termination of employment.
It’s ridiculous and quite frankly embarrassing for the company and ourselves. What other professional industry does this? If they are worried about us all using 4 a year freaking decrease it to 3 then. Just get off our backs..
Btw. I’ve never called in sick and frankly, haven’t needed to. I’ve been lucky my first two years here with not getting sick. However, I want to know that when I am sick, that I can call in sick and focus on recovering, not playing the Envoy run around to please the people in the CPO. It should just be a quick call to crew scheduling “hey I’m sick” and that’s the end of it. Unless you get to 4 you shouldn’t have to answer to anyone. It’s ridiculous.
to be fair, what you're describing is what happens. The horror stories you hear are from guys who are beyond the 3-4/year mark. I haven't called in sick in over a year and a half and and got sick earlier this year, called in and the phone call with scheduling was 30 seconds. Got an HI6 a few days later saying my sick call had been marked as cleared by the CPO and my obligations per FM1 had been completed. No problems, no issues. The only conversation I had was the 30 seconds with scheduling. It's these guys who are calling in every other month that get issues.