Originally Posted by
Buck Rogers
Easy to keep a scorecard when it plays like a broken record (especially when m311 is so wrong about me re: younger pilots.)
Almost like you houndoggin me with subtle jabs.
So, what's your opinion on the impact of IM SAFE on sick calls and how that might affect the GFB calls and Dr note requests?
A pilot can call in sick for virtually anything. It will be unprovable that it might be "abuse". The individual pilot is pretty much the only arbiter of fitness. Management is over a barrel due to IM SAFE.
If pilots feel their integrity is being besmirsched by management by the notes/calls.... the time is now to push a grass roots effort to go to what other legacies have...an accrual system of sick leave. Notes and calls will go "poof", but so too will 250 hrs sick leave/year.
I don't really expect you to answer, the horse has been beaten already, but I wanted to come full circle in the discussion after appropriate airing of opinions(substantive, not emotional)
I felt a good discussion was warranted because in the past coupla years, 4000+ pilots have been hired at Delta....many of them military. Many/some of them might benefit from access to insights on the realistic pro's/con's of both sick leave systems.
Hounddoggin? I think you’ve turned your sensitivity up too high, I haven’t responded to one of your posts in quite awhile. I respond to plenty of people when I have something to say. Maybe it ain’t me in this case?
As far as sick leave goes, if you aren’t up for working call in. If you know you won’t be up for working in a few months on a day you have no intention of bidding off, maybe that’s not a true sick call. At the same time, short of advertising your intent, I don’t know how an enterprising CP would catch on to that. How closely do the CPs watch when you call in from retirement?