From a few informal chats with colleagues it seems, yes, everyone is doing exactly this. When they feel like they're being ripped off - they throw a sickie, or four. Payback I guess you'd call it.
Don't get mad - Get even.
Oh, what does it profit a man when he rips off his fellow man?
Nothing in the end it seems. It's a zero sum game, where all that's left afterward is a bad taste in everyone's mouth.
The thing that boils my blood is that the creatures who foist these policies on aircrew are guaranteed their 8 days off per month, and at weekends too! They swan in at 9am, and swan out at 5. With generous lunch breaks in between. No rushed meals for them. No 4am wake ups on Sunday mornings, or endless nights away from their families.
Sure, this is the job we signed up to. But nobody signs up to being taken for an idiot, and robbed in broad daylight, by a smiling assassin looking for more than the contracted pound of flesh.
Off to the good Dr then.
Last edited by Killaroo; 8th Oct 2013 at 16:13.