zero - i is not always about what you get,sometimes it is about what you give back.
sadly this is a feature all too common in ryanair pilot thinking,lets call it the me,me,me syndrome.whilst pilots in ryanair are grovelling and curtsying for scraps here and there.the overall package is being diminished even further in a tactical base by base planned strategy.people see what is happening and choose to look away,hoping it will not come to them or that by turning away they will not feel others pain.others are just plain stupid and cannot see the reality.a significant number of pilots know well wat has gone and is coming,but they seem powerless to educate all pilots in sufficient time en masse.
the harsh reality of the situation is that it will continue.it will continue until all cannot escape it.it will continue until so far as one will not be able to remember where one started from.it will continue in a downward spiral.everyone will eventually become aware of the reality,but by then it may be too late.
i read an interesting post recently on "what ryanair has taken from us over the years".yes,it is a long and heavy list of material things.it however omits the most significant of all steals during this time.what has been most preciously lost is the DIGNITY and SELF RESPECT of a pilot group and sadly know the pilots of ryanair who choose to ignore their career destruction lose the RESPECT of others.
Have a good look at yourselves and see what has happened,trudging into !!!!ty little offices where nothing works in donkey jackets and parkas.have you not even enough pride to turn yourself out smartly in your uniform.locked in a 5 by 7 foot space for 12 hours, 5 days a week,sitting in and surrounded by stale food,the remnants of previous crews meals, and dust and other !!!!,where not even your own cabin crew members think you worth speaking to,let alone considering you worthy of authority.standing in the pissing rain so that passengers can board 5 minutes early and then sit on the ground while everybody else screws up the departure.
you know what is sad.not what management do to us but what little we have come to expect of ourselves and what little worth we place in ourselves.
if you are happy to sell your humanity,then feel free.when the totting up comes,it will not be about pounds,shillings and pence!!!it will be about you the singular.
as always comrades,right behind you.whenever you are ready!!!deus caritas est!!!