Perspective from the peanut gallery
Speaking as someone who is not quite yet even one of the Newbies being referred to...
As I drag my way painfully slowly through my training at my own (laboriously accumulated) expense, a couple of things occur to me:
1) I hope - when I have earned my shiny new CPL and the couple of endorsements that make it remotely useful - that I manage to find myself with a genuine employer such as Mick. One willing not just to give a Noob a chance, but to pay that Noob enough that it may survive, and perhaps even more importantly
2) I hope (scratch that, I INTEND) to be good enough to deserve that chance.
Perhaps that makes me entirely naive, but there we are.