Originally Posted by Lord Spandex Masher
If it wasn't for the greedy "I want one and I want it now" spoilt brats of today none of this would be happening.
I'm not trying to exonerate 'em; they are quite guilty yet it's not their fault only. There were always those who wanted to jump the queue yet in the days of yore, they couldn't. I remember a couple of years ago the collective bemusement in my outfit when we first got the word that the ZFT TRed guy would be joining us. We wondered how can anyone get chopped between successful sim and base training and concluded it was some poor soul whose company went bust just at the wrong time. Then it turned out he paid for his TR @ Toulouse. Shock and awe was a bit subdued when we learnt he was closely related to famous politician. We wondered where was the world going to, when sufficiently rich & famous could buy themselves TR.
A few years later, we know.