Originally Posted by
tanker
When I was at WN I got called by an Assistant Chief because Scheduling had reported that I had called out for 3 trips in a row, I informed him that the trips were all turns so I had only called out for 3 days.
I've seen that, where an airline counted sick occurrences by trips, or reserve days. A line holder could call out 4x annually and not even show up on the radar, while a reserve could get sick just once, trigger five or six occurrences in one week and then be in hot water.
Stupid Management Tricks.