Lets face it, crewing is one of the most demanding jobs around. I work in Ops and I wouldn't touch crewing with a barge pole. They hear every excuse in the book, get sworn at, lied to, spoken to in false voices and still get complaints from management as to why they couldn't crew a flt. Lets face it, there are never enough crew (even when they are rostered efficiently) and supporting an operation when it is suffering from tec/wx delays is almost impossible, especially when we ops boys keep asking the impossible. Yet somehow they manage to conjour up crews out of thin air! I take my hat off to the crewing department, they work with impossible resources yet still manage to keep them coming. The majority of crewing staff are excellent and have been in the job for years. How they manage to sort out crewing problems I'll never know. Yet some come and go on a regular basis because it is a stressful job, something which isn't always made clear when they apply. Then there is the financial rewards, or lack of them. Why put up with a poor wage when you could have an easier life earning the same wage, if not more? The answer, because we enjoy the challenges and variety that the job provides. How many other people can say that they made sure that several thousand people made it to the destination?