Jayc004 - well said. I echo all your thoughts. No one is holding a gun at anyone's head saying you HAVE to work for Ryanair. It's our choice. As with the vast majority of jobs in life - we can leave if we want to. It is NOT a sweatshop! Sweatshop workers have no choice. We do. And Jayc004 has stated that although it's not the greatest airline to work for, it suits him. Don't slate him for being positive.
I could leave if I wanted to as well, but I'm taking the positives out of it - ie hours on a great aircraft and good experience in terms of lots of non-precision approaches etc. Those of us that are here and enjoying it have simply weighed up the pros and cons and decided to stay. And if things were to get unbearable we could leave.
Most airlines have preferred schools. BA newbies are taken just from Oxford, Jerez and Cranfield, BMI are taking on a lot mainly from Oxford, Easyjet mainly only take cadets from CTC - so this practice is not unique to Ryanair.