Are you saying that anybody who has more than the corporate defined and approved number of sick calls in one year is an automatic sick list abuser, and a “clown”?

Several years ago I had a severe arm injury. It tore the all the tendons loose from my elbow front and rear. The first two surgeries failed to reattach the tendons. It took two additional surgeries and multiple rehab appointments to get everything hooked back up and fully functional.

Between the surgeries I was able to come back and fly for a while then go back in and get the next operation. I spoke in depth with the flight office about all this prior to, during, and after each surgery. I got medical clearance after each one to come back and fly. Guess what happened on my 5th sick call for the year? Yep! I get a dependability monitoring call from the very same flight office and in fact the very same person I’d been talking to about this whole issue.

“Yeah we both know why I’ve had so many sick calls this year, we’ve talked about this in depth and YOU know what the issue is too.” Flight manager “It doesn’t matter, once you you hit 5 sick calls in 12 calendar months I’m required to council you.”...

These people (the flight office, and management in general) are not your friends and the dependability monitoring system doesn’t care if you are having a legitimate issue or not. Welcome to the clown show, and you Core4 that where the sun doesn’t shine...