Originally Posted by
gettinbumped
It's not that we are all just a bunch of whiners. It's because sadly, in this business, many managements will take advantage of your enthusiam and cut, cut, cut: you contract, your pay, your retirement, your pilot positions, and your time off.... Just because they can. They won't stop until they feel that they have reached the limit of what they can get out of you, and they know they've reached the limit that when the complaining gets SO loud that the operation falls apart.
Best of luck in your career. The next generation is counting on you to keep it safe and worth doing
This. This. This is what you're missing noob. I'm plenty happy in my day to day flying, but I'm not going to dance over rainbows telling people how good this job is when they're trying to illegally junior assign me into one of my contractual minimum days off. When you're an adult and a professional it's very irratating that we aren't treated as such. Everyone else has said it already but I'm going to say it too. Come live our lives for awhile and then tell me how much you love 121.
And for reference, I don't think a senior international legacy captain is probably going to have a point of view on how regional guys get treated....