As for the "manager" - 40 hours is bullocks. Try an min of 50 hours + and on 2,000 e-mail's 24/7, 7 days a week with a tonne of stress...
The "managers" and other staff are working under tougher conditions, with fewer resources to support the greater workload, whilst living in fear of job losses all the time...
How many pilots have been made redundant?
And yes, "managers" and below, conditions have also "eroded" over the years - and that is the reality...
If you don't like it, leave.
It's not so easy as a Pilot locked in a seniority system to up and go. Especially when this will probably mean moving states or even countries and the subsequent impact on families.
Managers on the other hand can go manage any other company in any other industry, in just about any other place, but most importantly - in their home town.
Pilots are not made redundant because it costs a lot of money to train them, and resources to check them to line. A manager can be hired and working in a week. A Pilot from advertising, interviewing, hiring, training, checking to line can take 12 months or more.
See where I am coming from?