OK Cdr Shreddies, I'll bite. The histrionics, as you put it, were caused by a) being force drafted {some out of seniority}, b) they had just spent the better part of the previous year doing their command upgrade and then had to complete yet another convex, within the space of 12 months, and c)" horror of horrors" the airbus roster is frankly ****e with ****e aspects, which is why most of them had elected to do their conversion on the -400, where if there had been any suggestion of an airbus course, they would have bided their time and done their upgrade intra-Boeing on the 777. Note you've been here a while, not as long as I have I doubt; interesting to see what histrionics would have ensued if it had happened to you.