Originally Posted by
afterburn81
What we are all feeling as F.O.s currently is stagnation. It's kind of like brain freeze. We know what it's like and hate it but we continue to suck down that delicious frozen drink. Only because we know the brain freeze will go away.
All the BS F.O.s deal with regularly such as crap pay and working for free wouldn't be so bad if we knew for sure it was only temporary.
I wouldn't touch an ice cream if I knew there was a chance the brain freeze would last forever. Wish I thought about that before becoming a pilot.
Crappy analogy but might shed a little light on what we whiny F.O.s are trying to express to the more privileged folks.
Very good post! On a normal work day for me I know I often come across as a compainer. Usually though, once a captain realizes that I'm a reserve FO in our most junior domicile in my 5th year with the company most captains have an awakening. Especially since the PBS they gave the company has had 3 and 4 FO's junior to me with lines the last 2 months respectively. I didn't get to vote on the PBS agreement because I was furloughed, though I knew it would go through because of experience flying with senior guys. I usually don't even bring up my 18 months of furlough, though I am a memeber of the first and only group ever furloughed in my airlines some 30 years.
What I am getting at is that I love your brain freeze analogy. Ofcourse I would not have gotten into this if I knew it was going to be a perpetual brain freeze. Hopefully this brain freeze will be over soon. But there are very few at my company that have any idea what that brain freeze can feel like at the level and extent that I have.