Thanks, for me they're attributing it to a car accident I had in college about 12 years ago is best guess. I got really bad whiplash and could barely hold my head up for a few days back then and did therapy after for a few months. Being young I "healed" quickly and got back to business with school and didnt think much about it up until this year.

In January I woke up with what I thought was a bad pinched nerve. I thought I over did it at the gym so took some time off from the gym to heal. My nerve running down my neck and down the left arm was being pinched causing burning and numbness in 3 fingers. A few months went by with no real relief andi was getting very frustrated until I woke up one morning and something very bad had happened through the night. I felt like I got stabbed in the neck and couldn't function or do basic things without extreme constant pain. I then ran to the first doc I could get in with which was my chiropractor/pain management guy. They ordered MRI which showed 3 herniated discs and the worst one which was causing the pain was pinching the nerve and also pushing up against my spinal cord.

I then went through 2 rounds of injections into the location to shrink the bulge and reduce the pressure/pain. It gave minor relief but just enough to get by with basic functions. Following the second injection I ran out of options to avoid surgery and saw a specialist surgeon. He took one look at MRI and ordered emergency surgery due to the pressure on the spinal cord worrying that if I had a car wreck or something else causing trauma it could do major damage . 1 week later i had a spinal fusion done (same procedure Peyton manning had). 4 months later I'm ready to come back. Doc said recovery is 3-4 months to get back to semi normal but 2-3 years before the bone takes over completely vs the titanium plate.

Overall I'm very pleased with the whole thing, had I had an injury like this 50 years ago my life would've basically been ruined and I'd have had to live with the pain somehow.

As far as your question on how to prevent it if you have family history of back problems or degenerative disc disease etc the best thing you can do is avoid impact activities, heavy lifting with bad technique, but stretching helps. Some suggest the machine that allows you to hang upside down to stretch the spine out some allowing the discs to get space and relieve pressures. My doc said my disc he removed had been dead for a long time with a lack of nutrients therefore when he relieved the pressure in between the vertebrate, my disc that was bad just shattered into 3 pieces.

Not possible. DAL just won the employer support of the Gaurd and Reserve award.

Check in and Check out, aka sign in and sign out.

The last 6 years Delta has been overstaffed. Staffing is going to become very tight soon.

Now I'm not justifying actions by DAL or the CPO. But I think our staffing situation may factor in.

Ha!
Yep, that ESGR award provided Delta some great PR in the short run. But the real value of the award is that it provides a few years of de facto immunity from Mil complaints against the company.

The cynical observer would suspect Delta pushed hard for the award simply so it could crack down now without any interference.

I must have missed the part of the law where it says "inadequate staffing" provides sufficient grounds for the company to harass those taking mil leave.

In any case, the company wouldn't let the OP rescind his mil leave, even when they needed the coverage. So the "staffing situation" argument appears invalid.

Welcome to the new Delta.

Make sure you're calculating the fact that any trip hour credit from the current month's trip isn't credited until the following month. So if you add all the block time that spills over into the following month plus the entire trip hour credit for the trip, that number should exactly equal the C/O shown on PBS.

Carl

Purple,

I'm not condoning it. I'm not saying it's justified. And you should note I didn't quote the OP.

Dirty,

I did the same thing. I did not even talked to the schedulers I went in a talked to the CP in my base. Within a day it was off my schedule. I am not on reserve so not sure about the days going back on your schedule. However I did do this before while on reserve and had the days replaced.

I received a call from the CP in August about a Mil leave issue where I had to move the days due to that furlough. What I was told was the schedulers thought I was using ML to manipulate my schedule so he was calling to talk to me. I explained the circumstances no issues with it.

DOH! Unbelievable... how could I miss that? So obvious now. I guess I was just overthinking it, and assuming PBS would do all the 30/7 calculations that I would program into it if I had control over it's updating. Also I guess in my head I do call it "Sign In" and "Sign Out", and PBS calls it Pairing Check In... so C/I wasn't lining up with anything for me.

Thanks much dalad, and also Carl for the response.