Bellfest,
In my early days, I often weighed up the idea of getting a 412 endorsement after being told that you were guaranteed a job in the UAE if you had one. I could easily justify the expense given that I would earn twice the amount in the first year........ its an easy equation.
With bonding, it is effectively the same thing. An employer is guaranteeing you a job if you "buy" an endorsement, albeit payed in sweat and tears and daily cosumption of jelly chicken legs.
If someone agrees to 'purchase that ticket' then there really is no recourse.
That being said, there may be other reasons why an employer resorts to bonding. It could well be a person in a management position (operations, chief pilot, check and training, engineering) that is the cause of pilot resignations and not the buisness itself. An employee with all the good intentions of doing the right thing by the guy who has given them a job may well be faced with a demorolizing bunch of crooks at the helm, hell bent on keeping their own positions secure.... It is very hard in this day and age to remove bad eggs when they are in nich' positions.
