I wish we could sit here and pretend that everyone always acts with honour and integrity in their work life, but they don't.
Yes I have seen some bastardry at work from management - one of our pilots lost his Father and they only grudgingly gave him one day off for the funeral yet when the MD's father died shortly thereafter, the MD gave himself nearly 2 weeks.
On the other hand, I have seen employees pull every excuse in the book to avoid flying or some other obligation.
If you had an employee who grounded himself a few times because he has turned up to work hungover, how long would it take you to sack him?
It's taken me nearly 40 years to understand my own fatigue tell-tales, but only after I have found myself overhead my destination late at night and wondering how the f
k I am supposed to descend into the circuit, struggling to make my brain work... scary.