SOP, I can wholly understand, and indeed quite wholeheartedley agree with you that the company culture comes from the top end and pondlife airframe drivers have little chance of influencing it, hoever, I cant quite grasp the what is driving the discontentent aired on R & N and other forums.
On the one hand bmi and bmir are laying people off ( 1 less it would appear at bmi ) and thus feelings are running fairly high both about the layoffs and how they were decided. On the other Ryan are hiring but only if you shell out for the interview etc but that, and talk about pay and conditions also seems to raise hackles.
So you have the case of both ends pulling against the middle; I'd just like a slightly better understanding of a situation which baffles me.