Originally Posted by
Angle of Attack
It’s now payback time, due to the ridiculous standown provision brought in by the Coalition all those years ago we the pilots now run at 70% productivity and taking sick leave to get paid back for lost wages. 2 year pay freeze? So be it I’ll be off work for 25% of the time to pay for it. There is so much sick leave to take, may as well use it before we die, the training bottlenecks, the idiots not ramping up earlier, so be it I’ll just sit back and laugh while using sick leave. Loyalty is a fickle thing but that horse has bolted they will need at least 15% more pilots to do the same work from here on in, idiots…
There is a lot of this happening. I know lots of people who are taking two days a month as that is what we accrue in sick leave so why not use it and recoup some of that money.