Covey, Can you define sensible please.
If the only options are
A) unemployment and mortgage default, or
B) sign a crap contract which overworks you, underpays you and generally treats you like crap.
Which is the sensible option? Because that is the choice way too many pilots have to make.
Your post betrays your ignorance of pilot employment, particularly expatriate pilot employment. You speak as though changing jobs is the easiest thing in the world to do. It isn't. Its bloody difficult. Kids at school, change of country, acquiring new licence, new type rating, wife's career considerations (most have to work out of necessity), just getting sufficient time off at the right time to attend interview in another country is not easy. And the real kicker is that Emirates knows that and trades on it. So when guys subject themselves and their families to those levels of frustration and disruption just to get out of Dubai you know things have already gone too far.