These greedy bastards are all over the world. They are happily taking advantage of the bleak employment situation of today. But on the flip side of the coin some aviators have a tendency to be whores themselves. They’ll accept promotions, additional responsibilities, longer work hours. Too bad they don't have the back bone to step up to the plate and put their foot down to say “Enough is enough!”.
So now the descent on the staircase of respectability commences. The employer just got away with one offence. And guess what? He’ll just commit other offences with reductions in who knows what??? pay??? benefits??? quality of life??? poorer quality of layover hotels??? reduction in per-diem, since breakfast is included at the hotel? How much more are you going to take before you say, “I had enough of this show, and it’s time to move on?”
Come on! If the employer is balking at a raise in salary for the services rendered, and the added responsibility, as pointed out above, they are just arrogant cheap bastards, or they should sell the jet and fly commercially.
You remember the one, where a prospective buyer walks into a Rolls Royce dealership and asks the salesman… what kind of gas mileage dose this Silver Shadow get. To which the salesman’s reply is if you have to ask about the gas mileage, then you can’t afford the car?