It's not cherry picking for me at least. It's a legit issue. If I could call in well, stop burning my sick time, go on LC, pick up open time to either recover pay or restore sick bank like UAL/DAL can, etc it would slightly help. But since you have that 500 hour bank, of course the only thing that benefits you is the payout at retirement. I am not a person that calls in sick just because I don't feel like working, or couldn't trade a trip, or angry for not being able to hold a holiday off. I call off because I am unfit to fly due to illness. I had to call out sick this year because a captain flew sick. Got me sick...... Thankfully that one was only a 2 day trip..... The real painful one was a 25 hour 4 day and I was better on Day 1. But nope had to burn all 25 hours..... I am glad you got a payout, but besides that one item, UAL/DAL have better rules for sick. And I am with you in that I think I prefer our and UAL system over Delta's use it or lose it. But UAL's system beats ours with the one exception of the payout.....

It's one of the heavy items on the no side of the scale for me. Not enough to get me to a no, but it's a huge negative to me that we couldn't rework the rules and get more accrual.