Originally Posted by
FangsF15
I try to be intellectually honest, and call it like I see it. Like when I’ve posted multiple times over the years about how the Whale guys screwed the rest of us when they failed to commute for any SC for as much as 2 full years, got caught in 2017 out of position, and caused ALPA to spend a bunch of ‘green stamps’ to get 3 of 4 fired pilot’s jobs back? After which the company spitefully decided ‘we can play a game too’, and gave the rest of us maxed out SC’s that summer.
If calling that, and sick abusers out costs me the “pilot advocate” title in your eyes, then so be it.
Feel free to correct me if I’ve mistaken your position on this, but the reason some see you as taking the company’s side is because you’re justifying us “all wearing diapers” (via GFB calls) due to the company’s assertion that we have a sick leave abuse problem.
I don’t see the GFB call, which is not a standard practice at AA or UA, as an appropriate response to perceived sick leave abuse here, which DOES also exist at AA and UA. It’s ineffective at reducing sick calls (which were UP last year), and represents a form of harassment that isn’t seen elsewhere at the legacy level. A pilot advocate would not be making the case that those are the diapers that we all must wear because of the actions of a few (the same type who exist everywhere else).