Originally Posted by
EatMyPropwash
Exactly what I was about to type...
Coming from a mainly CFI background, and at TSA training for the E145, and now Silver for the SF340... TSA's ground training was more organized, and that's just funny to think about... However... That's about where the line stops...
This whole Silver is the "worst" airline thing is a very very opinionated answer. Some despise it, some love it, some are just along for the ride and don't think one way or the other (me specifically). Stay off the radar, do your job, speak when you're spoken to, and just be lucky you have a job to begin with...
And that my friend is why this profession is so crappy. I know the economy sucks right now and times are tough all around however, we all busted our butts to get our ratings, degrees, ground school, sims, etc. Some of us have to commute or drive a few ours to work, away from our familes days or the way MM makes the lines weeks at a time. So please don't give that "be happy to have a job" line. We have all sacrificed to be airline pilots, is it too much to ask to make this place at least better? Make better lines? Not deny our moving expenses? Not deny a legal pairing swap? Not try to make us DH for 18 hours for training? Not deny our ground repo pay because the CP thinks that you're milking it? Not deny upgrade because of a stupid technicality? Then allowing another pilot to change his staffing bid, but not helping out the other pilot. Not deny a hotel during a 4 hour sit to mitigate fatigue? Not screw somebody out of a vacation because of a MM screw up then cover up? Not listening to crews that will and have disqualified for not flying? Then blaming the crew for it.
EatMyPropwash, I believe you're still in training correct?
Welcome to Tarnished Airways, you know, the cheap silver that turns color and leaves a ring of green crap around your neck, yeah that one!