Prob40,
Truly sorry for you m8.
The main reason for the low houred intake is for ACL to be able to put them on the new "training" payscale. The lesser hours they have, the longer they'll stay on that training scale. This means extra savings for the company. In that pattern, ACL even found it worth it to partly fund one newbie's type rating.
Your 3000 hrs are your weakness at this moment in time.
420,
"salary is good" ????
Try a "normally" taxed FO salary. At best I'd say average.
"T&C are being squeezed".
That's more accurate. Yet, they keep on reminding us about reliability goals. Agreed this is about serving common interests. But then they should stop playing the "overcrewed" broken disc while everyone knows it's a lie and sees it as an insult to our intelligence. They tend to forget the degree of good will involved in these goals achievement. Maybe should we try and play by the rules for the sake of giving them a wake up call. Winter's coming ...
Hardcase,
"but hopefully just the 2weeks on, week contactable and week off without being pestered on our week off"
I'd suggest you wake up ... productivity improvement is their driving factor. Nothing balances it apart from their own assessment of what they can or cannot force feed us with. The only [kind of] force we [as crews] can rely on is the employment market supply and demand unless a proper and recognized pilots association is put together within the company. Can't see that happening.
But fairly enough, it's their company, they set the rules. Can't stand the heat ?....
Sad to say but they're merely another reflection of the state of the industry.