Obscurum per obscurius - jumping to many conclusions aren't you.
Many have joined with stars in their eyes with thoughts like fat cats, won't worry me etc. Then reality starts to bite.
Trying to get kids into school, arriving at dispatch to do a Taipei return (1.5 hours each way) to be told that you are going to LAX(14-15 hours flight). When you complain you are told, sorry I know the temperature here is 25C and in LAX it is 6C in rain, but haven't you read the new Vol 1 amendment (take clothes for every condition and for several days - takes care of the complaints received the last time). You could try looking for commonsense when you say, but that will mean that I'll have had no sleep for 30 or more hours when I land at LAX - you will be told it's legal. Then the killer blow, Oh, and did we mention you'll be coming straight back as a passenger on the same aircraft.
I could go on and on, but the new guys will find out for themselves. Then many of them, will be sitting in the cockpit bitching with the same aggression as everybody before them. Yes, in a childish sort of a way, I am looking forward to flying with them. I want to say, well you were told !
To the real pilots looking for a job who post in this forum, be careful as management are here in numbers.
[ 14 February 2002: Message edited by: Lovely Morning ]</p>