Just like after I have finished all my training in aviation, I should expect an entry level job flying, not getting a job as the chief pilot! Also, not an entry level job washing the managers car (which is what I did, and was paid for when I was young and stupid!).
I'm with you. Don't get me wrong, I don't feel sweeping floors and making coffees are jobs which are beneath me, if they are jobs that need doing then I'll happily do them. However, I won't agree that since this is how it's been done in the past it's necessarily the right way. I don't see making someone sweep floors for minimum wage as any different from the low wages which companies like J* pay their cadets, both are taking advantage of someones passion for flying and we know how people on pprune feel about the latter.
Yes, many the pilot has started out sweeping the floor and making the coffee, but also many the pilot at hours where they are not yet to be trusted with the heady delights of a C210 were given thier head in massive 4 engined bombers and set off over Europe to service the war.
Aren't ADF pilots nowadays at the helm of PC9's and hawks with a few hundred hours? I don't have the benefit of experience like some people here do but I would think that if their civil counterparts can't be trusted with a clapped out c210 at those hours then perhaps something is wrong with the quality of training and testing.