Poor NSF, slowly being exposed as a sort of orange Leo Hairy Camel: selfishly touting the management horn or telling every to bug off if they don't like it,
except when his own contract is at stake of course. Such chivalry...
But hey, then again, it's pretty obvious why, isn't it...? How many more months until retirement Norm? Anything to talk up that share price and cash in those options just in time before leaving the sinking ship, right Norm? The ends justify the means, 'ey...
Like the Piper of Hamlin, our favorite direct entry "senior training captain" has gathered a following of naive, new and
cheap cannon fodder (a.k.a. cadets) to feed the orange monster by telling everybody just how
wunderbar life in the low-cost business is! Hey, it's so great that 'they even pay you whilst positioning,' isn't that fantastic! They f*cking better be Norman, because you're on f*cking duty! It's
work and usually you get
paid for doing that.
These poor kids with 200 hours and a CPL must now feel truly shafted as they have been suckered into this Ponzi scheme of paying for ratings as they stand in line hoping to be privileged enough to pay for a P2F (P2BR) schemes, not sure of how and when they can make their next interest payment on that gigantic loan that get's bigger with every 'job.' Great advice Norm! I hope you scored enough brownie points in hangar 69!
And the most scary thing about it: this low-cost sh!t will float all the way to the top, affecting all major airlines as they desperately will need to lower their T&C's in order to level the playing field to keep up with the low-costs. Soon there will not be any decent companies left over to escape to. That's why I'm so active against low-costs and the selfish, short term, naive idiots who defend it. Perhaps I have a
bigger picture Norm, a picture that requires me to
work for a few more
decades (not months!) until retirement?
Doug the Head - I suggest you and wind check get into a bit of a PM flurry and he can commiserate with you still not being able to escape from the evil orange empire. He can then share with you his exciting new life which is just so much better. Go on - you owe it to yourself to leave here mate.