In the climate of greater, if not excessive, touchy freely comms from management, a somewhat anonymous missive, totally lacking in ownership, landed in pilots’ inbox, today.
24 hours after a conspicuously silent and dreary FOP weekly update, the new draconian - and discriminatory, since it only applies to HK and NZ flight crew (other jurisdictions cannot be trounced quite so easily) - revision of the Noticed of Revised Sick Leave Policy has been declared.
Let’s not beat around the bush and let’s communicate frankly: you pilots are pulling fake sickies, is the only, very unsubtle message conveyed by the author(s) of this cack, oppressive unexplained change in policy.
From day 1 of your injury, sickness or incapacity, your priority within 24 hours, is to self-diagnose your predicament or ailment or make damn sure a medical professional can attend to you and do so on your behalf, without condition, especially if you fall ill outside Hong Kong, and communicate the same to Our Dear Leaders.
Failure to do so is not spelt out in this gash revised policy, just so that the implicit disciplinary threat hovers ever so slightly closer over you.
A spineless, impractical document, if ever one was conceived by over excitable incumbents of new managerial positions.
It makes me sick.
Can I self-certify for that?