If You are unhappy in your job, grow a pair and vote with your feet!
C4, that's not an original suggestion. It's also not helpful because it's not the job or even the company (both of which are quite good) with which many pilots here are so unhappy; the problem is some of our fellow employees in management.
These office individuals work for the same company as we pilots do but their attitudes and approaches to their jobs are all wrong for the long term health of this airline, and the crewing issues you read about in this thread are merely one symptom of this malaise. Current pilots are leaving and other pilots are not joining not because of the job or the company but because of the management techniques employed by our office "colleagues" here.
These said employees are a scourge in this company and are affecting the outlook, attitude and work ethic of so many other employees that their continued employment here is a threat to all our wellbeing. We have one group of employees fouling the work environment (and in some cases home environment) for a large number of the rest and the result of this abuse is finally coming home to roost.
It's not that these management people are inherently unpleasant, at least not when they start here, but the company has an inherent flaw in its structure: many management (I believe it's VP and above) are employed under bonus-driven arrangements and this leads to a short-term interest on their behalf which leads to everyone else paying for those bonuses.
One more thing,
C4: telling people to "
like it or leave" is water off a duck's back these days.
After so many floggings, most of us know how to take a hit and roll with it.