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.
Fangs, you've always been a level headed poster on here. I've always liked reading your posts and comments. Sick leave abuse does happen. There are 17000 of us. We can't even imagine some of the shenanigans some Pilots have tried to pull. Mentioning a graph or chart that illustrates the rates of sick calls and spikes over weekends and holidays shouldn't send you to the dog house. Don't mind whoever that was that got twisted about it.
Supporting people that do stuff that causes the rest of us grief doesn't help anyone, I don't care if they're a pilot or not. (KCM random checks, anyone?) I've been randomed the last 7 attempts at KCM straight. If I ever meet the idiots trying to get through KCM with prohibited items....ugh it's frustrating. So is GFB calls, and sick notes. But if someone wasn't abusing the system, they wouldn't have these deterrents in the first place.