Joined post-Covid. Don't recognise much of what's been said but will give a little story to explain what I think is going on. Flying with quite young, brand new joiner FO who's telling me how he almost failed his initial LST.
"They can't expect me to read the whole of the FCOM. It's far too long and I've got a life, you know?"
Unfortunately I think management have had to cast the net a little too wide to get warm bums on flight deck seats (I mean, they recruited me after all). Whilst I'm no fan of management here, I think there are almost certainly a few characters amongst the recent recruitment who need to have a bit of a think about their behaviours, both professionally and downroute. There are plenty of stories going round about why a few particular characters have been let go, at least one of which I could confirm personally.