Originally Posted by
dirk85
First strike you should get away with it, with the standard threat of forced transfer and/or dismissal. That normally does the job.
Same procedure if you call fatigued.
After all the RYR 5/4 roster is approved by NASA, so you can’t possibly ever be fatigued.
I have directly worked with people who have filed fatigue, showed me the reports, and the subsequent time off. This is totally incorrect.
I have no doubt someone who files fatigued after 5 days of early starts before 6AM will not be very successful, but where the cases are genuine and can be backed up by an unusually demanding roster (combined with some personal circumstances in one case I know) - the company gave them 2 consecutive blocks off to recover.
So yes, they do spout nonsense about "NASA approved rostering" (and we get a great laugh out of that), but that is not the full story either. Try to play fast and loose with them, you wont go far, be genuine and honest, it gets you very far. With most things in this place.