Shortley,
Well you got me ... PUERILE???? I even check my dictionary and I still don't know what that means!
You find my views offensive and that's fine. I find it offensive to have my workplace still affected by 49 guys who aren't even with us anymore! I have operated with some of 'those poor people' and they definitely do not have my pity or my pocketbook. I will only make comment on those I did fly with and they should have seen it coming. They were hardly names pulled out of a hat but were behaving in a way that I could certainly understand how the company would be able to justify a 'loss of confidence'.
From a more personal perspective, I'm glad that I'm not having my life disrupted from some of these fellas calling in sick as it suited them. One, in particular, made a point of telling me that he'd be calling in sick for his return trip to HK. He was true to his word and I was delayed 2 hours while we waited for the reserve FO to get to work! And some people think I should be bankrolling this guy? Sorry.