You figured right. Ask just about anybody (which it sounds like you did but I say that for those still in doubt), ask any of the lower seniority pilots that have been here for 6 months or so, this place is awful on everyone but the lower seniority guys get relentless beatings. I recognize that it is tough to be low on any list at any airline, that is why I dread leaving to start over yet again at another airline, but this place takes it to a new level. As just one example of the life of a lower seniority pilot, our reserve work rules (not that they follow ANY rules) are horrendous. Single day off between blocks of 6 on. You WILL be called every day and that six days can turn into a tour of the country but you won't know what you will be doing from one day to the next, or even from one hour to the next. You will constantly be on the phone getting new assignments, 121 flights, mx flights, test flights, ferry flights to airports with no real food, and they arent afraid to order you to extend your reserve duty day by 2 hours. Thats right, they interpret 117 as allowing even reserves to extend the duty day to 18 hours! Any time you don't "agree" to extending your duty day (which they consider REFUSING to fly), they want to know why because they try to turn it into a fatigue call or attitude problem, and then things get political which gets sketchy.