Despite my rant I have met some very good trainers over the years. However to deny someone a training position just because they didn't join the company on the right day and consequently are a long term FO whereas the Captains obviously left the womb with the title "commander" is an utter nonsense and is quite unbelievable to people in other professions where appointments are made on the basis of experience and ability, not just your star sign and inside leg measurement.
That does not change the fact that there are some unutterable twa*ts who become trainers. Not because they want to impart knowledge or pass on their experience to others but simply to bolster their immense egos and feelings of ineffable superiority over everyone else. In a previous airline, some of them wanted an extra bit of gold braid on their uniforms to distinguish them from the common herd. I would have suggested a stripe around their nether regions, except they couldn't make the braiding small enough.
