Thanks cpdude, a well- reasoned and reasonable post. I heartily agree. The longer we spend slagging each other off on this very public forum the more we give our game away and lose the initiative. I see no advantage in letting management know our feelings. A lot of the sentiments expressed on this forum, whilst I respect the right to freedom of opinion, are an embarrasment and paint a very poor picture of ourselves as professionals.
Retirement at 60 was not an option when we joined but as a B-scaler I would welcome the negotiation of an option to extend to 60 and would be prepared to delay my time to command to achieve it. For pushbackred - no I am not close to 55, but I do have a deeply distressing view of retirement underfunded with a family to feed. Make no mistake, as we all know, it looked much more viable at the interview and shortly after I first joined but that was based on the widely held belief that B-scales were a temporary anomaly . The reality has taken time to sink in but it surely has.