The problem is that if they know you having been looking at all options and none succeed, and then you throw a sickie
Which is precisely why sickness has rocketed. People no longer make any effort to swap - they just go sick. In fact if they really need the time off, they dont even bid for it because they know they will only get roster assigned and then really be on the radar if they go sick. The company wonders why sickness has jumped so much. This is the reason in a nutshell! Our managers manage costs not people, and by not considering the human element of the equation they just jump from one unintended cosequence to another. I am convinced they would run the airline an awful lot more cheaply if they would only start thinking about the humans they are employing.