As an outside observer who stumbled upon this thread, can someone enlighten me as to why anyone in any profession would want to buy their job?
Surely the point of a job is that you provide your time and effort in exchange for financial reward, not the other way around?
Not having a pop, I'm just puzzled, that's all. I work in Ops, and we just turn up, do our shifts, get paid, go home again. Nice and easy! Which is why I have trouble understanding the approach of Reluctant737.
Are you buying hours on your way to a fourth stripe by this route? I can understand that to a degree, but then what happens when MOL decides that Captains can buy their commands too?