"For getting me a job 2 days before graduation driving some Dash 8's"

So, Riddle "got you a job". Do they just assign class dates to Riddle guys these days?

How about. "I earned the job because I did well in the interview process and met the airlines min hiring standards". It just doesn't sound right when one says "My school got me my job". Kinda like....I paid my money, now where's my job....

It's a sense of entitlement I'm just not comfortable with. Such strange times we live in. I almost liked it better when a Riddle guy had to scratch and claw for a CFI job, like when I graduated, and the "ERAU job placement service" was a joke.

I really hold nothing against folks for taking whatever job comes their way, whenever it comes there. I just think it's sad that the industry has stooped so low as to view a guy fresh out of Riddle, no other background, no other experience, as someone qualified to be a 121 airline pilot with 300 hours of flight time.

Just the other day a sport plane here in Spokane landed on a road when the engine quit. Guy did a great job. The guy had 140 hours and the local media was making an issue of what little experience that was to be flying an aircraft. How amazed would they be to see the backgrounds of some airline F/O's these days?