This thread is turning into 'bizarro world'.
If some of these posters here and on the Wannabes forum really are applicants, and not bored adolescents, wind-up merchants or management stooges, many of us, including the travelling public, need to be afraid. Very afraid.
Judging from these posts I would have serious doubts about the technical, practical and inter-personal skills of many of these individuals. The length and frequency of some of these missives would indicate a problem with priorities in life, and some of the posters display serious persecution complexes. How will these individuals will react to criticism, training and the unexpected, especially in the Cathay Pacific culture and global flying environment?
It may take at best, an incident, or at worst a tragedy for the company to revert to its previous very successful policy of paying 'good money for quality crew'.