Originally posted by Aluminium shuffler:
Case One, do you care to elaborate on how I have led the profession down ths path? By taking the best terms and conditions available to me? Is investing in y childrens' education and the UK government suddenly deciding to up the pension age by four years poor planning on my part? Why do you support an illegal, discriminative policy? Oh- because you want everyone pushed out of your way so you can progress. It's all about you, isn't it?
Well I didn't say you personally old chap. Perhaps you may not have sold your skills to the lo-co's or done the expat thing in search of a quick command/ TRI/ fleet manager position etc. - thereby facillitating the operators who are slowly destroying this profession. Or did you? I call those who do, greedy, selfish, shortsighted and a couple of other things that the mods wouldn't like. It was certainly all about them. Nudged your union, local MP etc. to do anything about the way current entrants to this industry are now being treated, or EASA nonsense, or was it none of your business?
On the other hand you seem to have placed reliance on an HMG pension. Now that was just foolish.
I don't think the policy is illegal - yet. Perhaps I'm wrong. Discrimination? Stop whining, much bigger problems in the world than relatively rich pilots not having quite as much money as they'd like. Save the D word for those suffering real injustice.
I've progressed just fine, thanks for your concern, there's no-one in my way. However, I'd be very happy to see many of those mis-managing things at the top shuffle off to retirement - doesn't mean I want their jobs. All about me? Nice try. I'm not sat here cr@ping on those behind/ below me.
Again, it's nothing personal old chap, I don't know your specific circumstances and attitude, I'm making general points. You may be a good egg. Too many aren't/ weren't.