I'm not actually anti-VS. I recommended several mates to the company while I was in the process of leaving - two joined and are very happy. My posts in the last 3 years have merely been to offer an alternative to the 'everything is rosy at VS' point of view which seems to prevail in this forum, because as with any company you have to take off the rose tints eventually. I remeber the rhetoric on the Voice (is that still going?) post 9/11 and I seem to remember that even Scroggs was far from happy when the redundancies looked like they were going to be done out of seniority.
I probably would have stayed if I had been on the 340 which seems to have much better routes - except for the fact I woulkd have been made redundant! The 5 or 6 East coast trips we were doing a month on the 744 were killing me and I wasn't enjoying it much.
Anyway, I left and am much happier and much better off.