Chine et al
Why don't you just start your own thread, rather than, as you said, hijack this one?
Don't get me wrong, I totally agree with you regarding our seniority system. I too suffered from it, but somehow every time someone ( trot, in this case) asks a question about the company then it always ends up the usual mish mash of anti-ek posts. I'm surprised that d***head Waldorfin hasn't showed up in this one yet, with the resultant mud-slinging, as in most of the other EK threads.
People like Trot have the right to ask questions about EK and he has the right to relevant answers. If he's seriously interested in joining EK, I'm sure he'll have a good look at ALL threads, whingey ones included.
I totally disagree with the company employing DECs but ultimately if I were somewhere else and offered a DEC job with EK, I WOULD TAKE IT AND SO WOULD YOU AND THERE IS NO ONE IN THE WORLD WHO WOULD CONVINCE ME OTHERWISE.