Sounds to me like Dope05 Didn't quite make it into comercial flying himself.. (obviously correct me if I'm wrong!!) A bit bitter and twisted...!?! I wouldn't trade this job for anything else in the world... Doing what I love the most on a very decent salary.. Yeah we probably haven't got the flying skills you needed a decade ago on those aircraft.. I'll be the first one to admit that..!! But the way aircraft are designed to operate these days you don't need those WW11 flying skills anymore.. It definately is more about managing a flightdeck than handling an aircraft.. But I can't quite see why you feel like you should have a go at all us commercial pilots like this?? I can vouch for my airline (Midsize airline, about 450 pilots) that when needed believe me we've made a united front on more than one occasion!! And as you said.. the divide and win trick.. they tried.. but failed miserably!! It's not everywhere like that before you start to tar us all with the same brush!!!
Back to the topic at hand......