Although many cabin crew (and pilots to a lesser extent) do pull sickies (amazing how its on Saturday morning most of the time), I am also amazed at how frequently crew members show up when clearly unfit to work. This is an unfortunate side effect of 'bullying' from management - ie. sacking or threatening to sack people on probation whos sickness record is deemed unacceptable even if genuine, or denying people chance of promotion based on sickness record.