I detect in dartagnan someone who is prodoundly grateful to Vueling for giving him his first jet job. Who can blame him? I felt the same once. Alas, as time goes by, dartagnan will realise that there are reasons that a relatively small company like Vueling lose 16 captains a month. However nice it may be to get candy before each flight, it does not change the fact that Vueling are a 2-bit flying operation taking advantage of the desperation of young pilots to fly. They are in the same category as Onur Air, Inter Air etc - rubbish employers who are a stepping stone to a slightly less rubbish employer. In the unfortunate event of their continued success, Vueling will no doubt be able to raise a glass to the likes of dartagnan, whose blnkered view of his new employers has made a few very people rich and him very poor.
Incidentally, I understand that their chief pilot has been making approaches to other LCC FOs and offering them Direct Entry Commands. From my understanding, a Vueling captain earns a similar amount to an easyJet SFO and, not surprisingly, not too many suckers have taken the poisoned bait. Awful as it is to admit, even working for Ryanair would seem positively attractive in comparison to working for these guys. Maybe Michael O'Leary is really a jolly nice chap after all.