Well, BavarianBoy, if I am living in dreamland, you are living on a completely different planet.
As many do, you confuse the standard pilot whingeing with reality. Many might complain, but very, very few have actually resigned (and there are LOTS of jobs out there for experienced crews).
I'm willing to bet that there will be no pilot layoffs (and that also from someone "on high").
Regarding your alleged "resignations", any that might have gone would have done so by now. More idle speculation.
Regarding fleet "rationalisation", ,NO decisions have yet been taken.
mercury_7: No, I am not flying the rosters your colleagues are. I fly the roster I am given, and very friendly it is too: this month, about 60 hours flying, 39 sectors, 11 days off and a few meetings thrown in. That is fairly standard for my base. Some are better, some worse- hard to comment without seeing your colleagues' rosters. For your information, I am a representative on the internal BE employee forum, so, yes, I am trying to improve things.
be142736: NONE of the events you mention have yet been decided upon. At least two of them are complete bollocks. The third one is also complete bollocks if you got the type right. The second, well, all those aircraft have been for sale for a very long time (over two years).
By the way, EXT is a very small flying base (probably the smallest), and is therefore hardly a good guage of general company morale.
SussexPSR: correct, I referred only to flight deck. Having said that, I would be very surprised if cabin crew made redundant were not offered jobs elsewhere within the company.