How often does it have to be said that the "i'm only here for a few hours" brigade are f**king it up for everyone else? Look at the big picture. Every low-cost hour you gain is undermining the airlines with the better T&C's. It's like musical chairs. Eventually the music will stop when you've managed to undermine everyone else and at that point, if you're still in ryanair, you're goosed and if you've left already to gain a temporary advantage, you're now goosed anyway. And you were never there to begin with, you can look with contempt on the fly-for-cheaper pilots who have ruined your life.
vikingdk Maybe most of your colleagues are happy, but I suspect they all have low experience and haven't worked out yet how they're screwing themselves and everyone else. Once the above scenario happens, they'll know all about it.
You can't get away from the fact that if you accept poor conditions it screws everyone else. The argument that it's only "entry-level" and "all professions start out bad" is a fallacy. Here's why:
A junior doctor, accountant, lawyer etc gets paid less cos they do the monkey work with little responsibility. As they move up the ladder, they can command a premium for their added experience and ability. And if they're particularly able, they can command a bigger premium again.
However, a pilot of a given can not and does not command a premium for being "better" or more experienced than another. If that were the case, passengers would gladly pay more to fly with EI, BA, KLM, Easy or whoever. However, people choose ryanair assuming all pilots are equal. Yes, we all know ryanair pilots are generally much less experienced than anywhere else, but other airlines have to compete with ryanair on price, not on the quality of the cockpit crew.
Experience is an intangible quality that can not be accurately measured. That's why ryanair, who only care to tick the boxes, will always be able to undercut an airline who cares about how able the pilots actually are.
If you don't stand and fight at ryanair, the sh1t will follow you wherever you go and you will not be thanked for it by the rest of us.