Originally Posted by
Karnak
Huh? A pilot can get what they request...then be unhappy about it?
Sailing likes to tell us the horrors of other well-paying jobs. None that I know of ask their employees to risk skipping once-in-a-lifetime events (graduations, weddings, etc.) or completely bypass promotion. I appreciate your attempt to lower our expectations, but I refuse to yield total control of my annual schedule to simply continue along a normal career progression with this family at Delta. It won't be hard to take back small bits of schedule control if it's the will of our union to prioritize this particular QOL-enhancer.
A wise management team would recognize the value of some more short- and long-term schedule control...if they really want to reduce "unpredictable" and expensive sick leave use. Until they do...a dad/mom/husband/wife/son/daughter's gotta do what a dad/mom/husband/wife/son/daughter's gotta do. CPOs will tell you the same thing in whatever code is the approved code-of-the-moment, I'm told.