merit merit where is my merit
Your gripes are not with this poor girl, but with the system you work under. It is unfair to harrass someone who is using the system to their advantage (honesty please gents). What you are facing here is the "the merit principle", a dark force steeped in multiple layers of family protection, darker and more sinister than the fat man himself. A force so powerful that not even thousands of hours >5700kgs turbine time could make one eligible for command.
Cadets schemes are not new, BA, QF, SAF, CX, UA, Delta all have them and they are successful. The RAAF lets 200 hour pilots fly 50 million dollar fast jets. This girl is only trying to make her career, you would all rather do it this way, rather than flying overloaded 206's out of KU (again honesty please)
Let her get on with it, as should you. Find creative ways of using the system. Perhaps you could annoint yourself as the "Antimerit", a force so disruptive and time wasting that no-one will ever actually task you with anything. Or you could just work in operations, under the disguise of Merituous behaviour only to be the mole, the all new Spikkers fugitive. "Spankers Ops say again???" Say again, say again,......aircraft calling Skippers standby"....PARP".
So instead of serving the company for 4-5 years, gaining valuable regional , demanding turbine time, then being promoted to fly the 120 or Dash, just paint a few rocks, establish systems that have no purpose, teach courses no -one cares about, add a special title after your name , acquire an office in the building, kiss clients asses, kiss CEO's ass, Kiss Family members ass's daily, make terminal staff feel that despite having no formal training, that they could really fly to Leinster at night if the company really needed them to, and no crew were available. Never park out the front (very naughty, 2 demerit points), dont smoke anywhere, not even in the same state. Dont throw food around at Social club functions. Dont vomit at Social club functions. Dont remove clothing at Social club functions. Dont pick fights with ramp staff at social club functions. Dont throw glass ware from moving vehicle hired by social club for social club functions. Dont fly approaches in company aircraft thats what your check1 and 2 is for. Dont use foam cups for coffee, use empty discarded crew meal containers. Dont eat crew meals, so they can be re-used for the afternoon shift. Dont tamper with paperwork in operations. Dont read newspapers in flight. Always talk to passengers. Dont purposely kick passenger baggage from the aircraft hold. Dont purposely remain in turbulence because a passenger was abrupt with you. Dont choke one out after a curry night in the Metro23 lavatory. Dont amend company memos' to read as you think correct. Dont engage in tomfoolery on the company frequency. Dont assume that an innocent pat on the buttocks of female colleagues / passengers is appreciated. Storage of pornographic material in aircraft document folders is appreciated and can offend some sensitive crewmembers. Dont turn with prop wash blowing over the minesite dongers as a good bye gesture. Some staff and passengers dont understand ICAO flight deck sign language so dont use it to signal people from live aircraft. Especially dont use this type of sign language close to the terminal. Skipping past the terminal in the rain singing may be funny to you, but isnt to passengers. The aircraft emergency torches should not be used to make scary faces at passengers at night in the cruise especially RPT Clients. The VIP room is not a night club for your use. The VIP room shouldnt be used for your rest and recuperation or foe entertaining female guests. Solitaire is not classified as a form of flight planning. Fuel checks and 3% checks were designed back in 1914 and really should be taken with a practical view. Magna sticks can be very accurate and well within 3%. Try to involve ops in all your operational decision making, remember there is no I in team. Just because operations is housed in an impermeable silver and eavesdropping proof container and is inaccessible and uncontactable by crew , try to remain as a team. Once again operations staff are not converant with ICAO flight deck sign languages, so dont create confusion by using at the windows of operations. Remember weather is subjective, no one really understands it so why worry about it so much, ops dont so why should you.
Embrace the MERIT, let it course through your veins. Feel the love, feel the togetherness. Remember..." If you are full of.....MERIT, we will give you the CREDIT".
Did I say dont throw food at Social club functions"