Picmas,
As you said there is nothing glorious about buying a job: but what is the most important?? Glory or the job?
For each job you have to be qualified and you should understand that having a Type Rating on the aircraft that the airline uses is a minimum and logical point. It is not because of you pay 50000$ for a license that an airline is supposed to pay your TR. The purpose of a company is to make profit and it is a waist of time and money to send you for 1 month type rating course expect if they are desparate to find a qualified pilot (which is not the situation in 2005). In that case they might give you the PRIVILEDGE to pay for your rating.
TRTOs now offer line training included in the TR price which is a great experience as you fly for 100 hours under the supervision of a training Captain and it should be considered as a training and not a pay to work experience.