Flying Fiona - indeed as er82 pointed there are indeed Op's and crewing personnel that read these threads.
Dont you think that flying might not not be the right career for you ????
And what about your collegues - how do you like having your life mucked around, being called off standby and doing nightstop's and all because you one of you collegues cant hack it !! You would'nt like it if your collegues did it to you so why do it to them...
As you value your family life so much above everything else would you not be better working a monday to friday 9-5pm office job - as all pilot's and cabin crew know, unsociable hour's, nightstops go with the job it's part of the job desription.
No Airline is perfect whatever you may think - flybe is no worse than anybody else,were certainly not perfect but if you speak to a pilot or cabin crew from any other airline - they will all say they are overworked, and how badly crewed they are and they dont spend enough time at home.
It's people like you - going sick just because they feel like it that make the situation worse and so make it deteoriate for your collegues and yourself and so we just end up going around in circles.....
(now stand back and wait's for torent of abuse....)