Originally Posted by
RJSAviator76
Is brown-nosing really the only way you can think of?
So let's say there are 1,000 dirtbags in front of him. Should his career be held hostage by them simply due to date-of-hire? I personally don't think so. There is no accountability in a union shop.
What happens when the "merit system" not only gets it wrong and promotes ineptitude and incompetence, it does so consistently and on a large scale?
Just about any ex-military can tell horror stories about this. I saw good pilots and officers fall by the wayside, while brown-nosers who couldn't fly out of a wet paper bag get the promotion. Fortunately for the military, this seemed to end at about O-6, colonel. O-6 and above, the vetting is so intense, few losers slip through.
Most of us who transitioned to a seniority based system felt a sense of profound relief.