Originally Posted by
interceptorpilo
Fangs: The post you replied to gave a way for “raw data” to not tell the whole or correct story. You go on to say you are not making a value judgement but then go on to value judge your fellow pilots and say “pilot’s are obviously cheating”. Please, please don’t go into management. BTW I have read Freakonomics.
I just want to add, a graph isn't raw data either. It's a way to present it, sure, but that can formatted in a way to tell a story and doesn't even necessarily tell the whole story. To do that, you need to really ask what percentage of GFB calls over the holiday (because I know there are some) result in sick abuse determinations as compared to non holiday usage.
What if people are just more likely to call out sick for minor systems over a holiday than they would normally (i.e. flying sick). That doesn't mean it's an abuse. After all, most of APD holidays are in peak respiratory virus season and a large portion of our group have living petri dishes at home (or visiting which is when worse). While I'm sure SOME people are, like very very few, are fake sicking out every holiday, I'm doubtful it is as rampant as some are portraying