Wise words MiG. I really don't have a dog in the fight, (yet, fingers crossed) but even if I get the TBNT letter, I really think I need to bore Fly with a short story about how life works. I'm concerned for you FlyGuy.

It doesn't do yourself any good to hold onto bitterness. I don't know if you work at EAS, have a friend there, or whatever. It really doesn't matter. I know first hand that holding onto the past doesn't do you any good. I was at the realDHL for over 21 years. Before we shut down, we were the number 3 company in the US as far as pay, schedule, and even 401k's. When the last surviving member of the DHL founders was killed in a plane crash, DPWN bought DHL. Then, they bought Airborne Express. Knowing what's better than anyone else, they tried to merge the two operations together in a single weekend. Five years of 1 Billion dollars annually in losses later, they shutdown my airline, kept ABX, and drew the entire operation down to a smaller state than what we were before the whole merger started. Although ABX folks suffered too, with layoffs, etc. After fighting for over 5 years day and night to try to help save my company, I was so burned out that I didn't want anything to do with flying. So I went to work at a golf course. After about a year, I caught myself once in a while looking up when I heard an airplane. Six months after that, I realized that I missed flying. It's taken me awhile to get back into it, but I've managed it. And in the process I learned a valuable lesson about life.

The lesson I learned is, that to hold onto resentment and anger over past experience will do nothing to help you in the future. I'm guessing that you aren't at the final place you envision yourself for in your career. Trust me, people can sense when you are faking enthusiasm. If I'd tried interviewing anywhere right after my old job, I would probably never gotten a call for anything, because I couldn't let go of the past. Take it for what it's worth, and good luck!