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Why would I not answer?
And no, didn't miss the emoticon but also didn't want you to misunderstand my irritation.
Jumpseat-if FC wants to remove me with pay, all for it. Last line of defense is pilot judgment , and although judgment is impaired by fatigue absent some concrete actions at show time there is absolutely no reason for FC to intervene. (it's never been CRS in my experience, CRS would have no issues scheduling us for 24 hours straight if the computer would let them...I have had CRS use judgment, but it's a rare rare thing. Also never had a DO not support me when I pushed back on CRS BS plan. But I've only been a Capt for about 5 years, so that's recent history)
OK, I provided an example of flight management substituting their judgment for the judgment of the pilot involved, and you clearly would rather use that as a tangent to chase rather than stick to the topic.
Look, squirrel.
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Back to the JS, our own CBA says that if the FAA ever considers JS duty time that the contractual section becomes null and void.
Yeah, that squirrel. Yeah, so what?
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Back to sick. When I wake up with a cold that's gone from minor to severe, I know that it takes me about a week to recover. If it's 24-48 hours prior to show, then I call in sick. When I scratched my cornea, that's a week+ to recover, so I immediately called in sick. There is nothing preventing me from calling in well prior to the drop time if I recover quicker then expected...but that's not been my experience.
OK, last time I'm gonna try this. Nobody cares if you call SICK early. Lucky you, you always get sick or injured well in advance of report time. Give that man a participation trophy.
Some of lesser humans get sick or injured or experience other situations which leave us unfit to fly at times much closer to report time. We should be able to call SICK whenever it occurs, even if it's minutes prior to report time. And that's what I have been talking about.
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When I became ill driving into the AOC at 1 in the morning, I actually did call CRS and tell them I was sick.
United for awhile required a Drs note with every sick call. American requires their pilots to talk to an actual person to use their SL.
DOL allows companies to ask you for medical documentation in certain circumstances.
Our own contract has a long, long history of allowing the company to request information as to why we called in sick under certain circumstances.
Good for United. Good for American. Good for DOL. I don't know if you've noticed, but we are none of the above.
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If you're the guy being asked for a note on July 12th and you haven't called in sick for 3 years...then ask the company to explain their good faith reason for doing so, ...
That's not how it works, Capt Kronan. You don't get to ask those kinds of questions. Just send in Sick note, and don't miss the deadline.
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... as for me, after pushing back I'm going to tell them I had GI issues (if I did) and offer to provide pictures for future occurrences should theu so desire.
If they say not good enough, then sorry, still filing an ASAP report because quite frankly taking away pay is definitely an illustration of pilot pushing and should be documented as such.
Cool. I forgot you have your own deal with The Company. That stuff they put in contracts and letters of agreement and settlement agreements shouldn't bother you if you've got your own system worked out with management.
Hey, but at least we agree on one very important point.
Taking away pay for calling in sick IS pilot pushing!
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There are exactly 0 trips open in my seat. Explain to me how RTT makes my life better. Would reduce the annoyance of waiting/wondering if a trip went through. But I already have a pretty decent idea of my odds since the software change showing pending trades on specific trips.
Make OTP a never go away provision and then we'll talk about RTT
Look, another squirrel. And, just as I figured, if it doesn't affect you, who cares?
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Why do I call in sick early? Not looking it up but still think there's contractual language that indicates we're supposed to call in sick when we're sick.
And, when I was an FE, had a Captain that called in sick 5 minutes prior to show because he was PO'd at the company. Specifically stayed up to call in sick just prior to show. 80 minute delay for the FO and I while CRS found us another Captain
still shaking my head on that one
Nobody cares if you call in sick early.
I'm not calling in sick on my days off unless I expect it to extend into a trip. Would you call in sick if you got sick on the first day of your vacation? Oh, wait, never mind. Please don't answer. Ignore the squirrel.
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