UOTE=SAABaroowski;289316]You make some good points, but the reality of it is that he works for an airline that pays decent and treats their employees like human beings, you on the other hand don't. If I worked for Southwest I too would probably want to help the company out, if I worked for an airline like CAL that walks all over their employees, you can bet your "behind" that I would use all of my sick time...............[/QUOTE]

It appears the differences between sick leave policies may be in play here. SWA has a pretty generous 10 for 1 accumulation rate of sick leave. You work 10 you get one trip of sick leave. Pretty easy to acculmulate if you are relatively "healthy."

I am most certainly not going to say I haven't used sick leave in some grey areas. I will say there is a difference between using it because your spouse is ill and you have young children or you have a doctor's appointment, etc., and using it for "personal" reasons that have nothing to do with being ill. Not judging, just posing an ethical question which we each have to make peace with.

The pilot group at CAL saved their pensions (as well as AA) while other "legacies" lost theirs. I believe they are to be commended for that. Did the mgmt take too much? Perhaps, but I would say that making a fellow employee work (by abusing sick leave) because you feel the mgmt got a big bonus is targeting the wrong culprit.