Sick leave letters

saintoftaint said:
As someone who has 10 weeks in a row OT scheduled, please keep taking the SL. I enjoy the $
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Scheduled as in upcoming, or scheduled as in past + future schedule?

If the former, didn't know facilities got their schedules that far in advance (we only get 6 weeks ahead)
 
ATCJoe85 said:
Scheduled as in upcoming, or scheduled as in past + future schedule?

If the former, didn't know facilities got their schedules that far in advance (we only get 6 weeks ahead)
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Per the contract you’re supposed to have at least 28 days in advance posted
 
I’m on month 4 of straight 6 day work weeks, our traffic count drops a good bit in the winter and we lower our staffing numbers so we get a 6 month break from OT in the winter. With that said I know of 3 sick leave letters being given out, all were to new cpcs (less than a year and a half cpc). Almost all of them used less sick leave than the average cpc so I’m not sure what that’s about.
 
Noturpilot said:
I’m on month 4 of straight 6 day work weeks, our traffic count drops a good bit in the winter and we lower our staffing numbers so we get a 6 month break from OT in the winter. With that said I know of 3 sick leave letters being given out, all were to new cpcs (less than a year and a half cpc). Almost all of them used less sick leave than the average cpc so I’m not sure what that’s about.
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Some good representation by the local sounds like.
 
I became a supe at a Z after 1 year CPC at level 6.

Tuesday Wednesday RDO's are my favorite cuz you can give sick leave letters to young guys for no reason (they deserve it anyway). If they sick out on Thursday or Monday it's in conjunction with their weekend. Sick out Friday or Saturday it's the actual weekend. N Sunday is quick turn.

My management buddies and I always laugh about those. So EZ LOL
 
Pot_Stirrer said:
I became a supe at a Z after 1 year CPC at level 6.

Tuesday Wednesday RDO's are my favorite cuz you can give sick leave letters to young guys for no reason (they deserve it anyway). If they sick out on Thursday or Monday it's in conjunction with their weekend. Sick out Friday or Saturday it's the actual weekend. N Sunday is quick turn.

My management buddies and I always laugh about those. So EZ LOL
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ClearanceClarence said:
To fancy my ignorance, what exactly are the repercussions for receiving a letter? And isn’t the most common way to get one is by showing a “pattern” of bang outs?
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The Repercussions are having to show why you are taking sick leave for 6 months. Big deal. People are so scared for nothing.

Now if you get a second one inside of 2 years that can be escalated but that’s unlikely.

If I got one I’d share it with everyone so they know what it looks like and why I got it so they don’t get caught and if they do the facrep can use it as comparison for the next one. It’s funny to me when people in the facility don’t share the sick leave letter. Put them in the union office or whatever. Instead people just spread fear mongering bullshit.
 
Electricfence said:
The Repercussions are having to show why you are taking sick leave for 6 months. Big deal. People are so scared for nothing.

Now if you get a second one inside of 2 years that can be escalated but that’s unlikely.

If I got one I’d share it with everyone so they know what it looks like and why I got it so they don’t get caught and if they do the facrep can use it as comparison for the next one. It’s funny to me when people in the facility don’t share the sick leave letter. Put them in the union office or whatever. Instead people just spread fear mongering bullshit.
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Managers hate this one simple trick
 
Mike Kilo said:
A lack of a pattern is not the absence of a pattern!
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I remember the first time I heard those words come out of a supes mouth "no pattern is a pattern". I finally realized I was dealing with a special kind of stupid.


Electricfence said:
The Repercussions are having to show why you are taking sick leave for 6 months. Big deal. People are so scared for nothing.

Now if you get a second one inside of 2 years that can be escalated but that’s unlikely.

If I got one I’d share it with everyone so they know what it looks like and why I got it so they don’t get caught and if they do the facrep can use it as comparison for the next one. It’s funny to me when people in the facility don’t share the sick leave letter. Put them in the union office or whatever. Instead people just spread fear mongering bullshit.
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I became friends with the Dr that worked at the urgent care closest to my house. I would walk in, pay my $15 copay and tell him my tummy hurt. He'd write up that I had the shits or the stomach flu. Next day I'd goto work I'd get pulled into the supes office to be counseled on my SL usage. When they were done I'd hand them my Dr's note. They play their games and I'd play mine.
 
A few years back I was presented a sick leave letter for scheduling 4 doctors appointments within a few months of eachother all on Thursdays. They were all entered and approved weeks prior and I told them exactly what the appointments were for and why it was on Thursdays... the only other time I could have scheduled them were Mondays and that would have messed up the schedule at work even worse making someone move back in the day that would mess up their ability to pick kid up from school. I had well over 200 hours of sick leave so definitely not a turn and burn person. They found another Thursday I called in sick a year prior and put them all together as a "pattern"... I was actually floored at how crazy it was. That sup was a dick and after talking to the useless rep I went right to the ATM and he squashed it without hesitation.

Then there's a guy who's a sup now that used to call off every Sunday/Monday that his football team played on.... never gave him a sick letter, they just promoted him.
 
DADDYSbabyBIRD said:
A few years back I was presented a sick leave letter for scheduling 4 doctors appointments within a few months of eachother all on Thursdays. They were all entered and approved weeks prior and I told them exactly what the appointments were for and why it was on Thursdays... the only other time I could have scheduled them were Mondays and that would have messed up the schedule at work even worse making someone move back in the day that would mess up their ability to pick kid up from school. I had well over 200 hours of sick leave so definitely not a turn and burn person. They found another Thursday I called in sick a year prior and put them all together as a "pattern"... I was actually floored at how crazy it was. That sup was a dick and after talking to the useless rep I went right to the ATM and he squashed it without hesitation.

Then there's a guy who's a sup now that used to call off every Sunday/Monday that his football team played on.... never gave him a sick letter, they just promoted him.
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You know in the corporate world and here you get promoted to your level of incompetence. Those who can't do science teach it, those who can't do sales are the sales team manager, well you get the rest
 
DADDYSbabyBIRD said:
A few years back I was presented a sick leave letter for scheduling 4 doctors appointments within a few months of eachother all on Thursdays. They were all entered and approved weeks prior and I told them exactly what the appointments were for and why it was on Thursdays... the only other time I could have scheduled them were Mondays and that would have messed up the schedule at work even worse making someone move back in the day that would mess up their ability to pick kid up from school. I had well over 200 hours of sick leave so definitely not a turn and burn person. They found another Thursday I called in sick a year prior and put them all together as a "pattern"... I was actually floored at how crazy it was. That sup was a dick and after talking to the useless rep I went right to the ATM and he squashed it without hesitation.

Then there's a guy who's a sup now that used to call off every Sunday/Monday that his football team played on.... never gave him a sick letter, they just promoted him.
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It's good to have supes that call out consistently imo. Then if management tries to do anything they have to punish their own first. We had a supe like that at my last facility and we never had sick leave letters. I actually didn't know sick leave letters were a thing until reading this website or reddit.
 
Management gave me a sick leave letter once, then sent it to pro-standards once they realised it was for a gene therapy trial and I had to give blood/poop in a bucket every Friday. Kind of hilarious.
 

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