Actually, maybe Oasis has a point. Unless one is really..really sick, you harden the F up and fly.Maybe thats the true meaning of Christmas, where our responsibility to flying colleagues in times of key dates, albeit with more commercial meaning than religious, overcomes our need to go sick at the drop of the first signs of flu.
On a mid year standard 100hr roster, I would have no hesitation in signing off sick but this time of the year, as cliched as it is, the image of some poor sod in DB with a family of 5 missing out on a pre ordained lunch and dinner, a valued Christmas event, means I shall take my sniffling virus into dispatch, take the hits and allow others to enjoy their festivities…and just maybe..maybe, assuming I am still part of this wretched circus, have someone do the same for me.
merry Christmas!!