I called in fatigued on a reserve assignment that was supposed to leave at 10pm for 10hr flight to EZE. They ended up pushing the flight back that afternoon to a 530am departure. Before these trips the night before I stay up late and sleep in late to kind of push my body clock back. I was up all night trying to sleep until 3am when I called fatigued. I was still charged with a deduction to my sick bank because of their stupid a$# policy of just completely changing departure times for these long haul flights and keeping the original crews on it.

If I would have just called in sick I would have gotten the same pay but wouldn't have had to fill out paperwork.