What? 4 hard days off per month, and most of the times you fly trips in less call time that stated in your contract/ops manual?
Why even bother having such documents then?
And in your opinion a pilot that stick to his guns and want his schedule respected should righteously get fired? Really?
These statements are unacceptable, even for time builders, left alone for professional pilots.
This kind of attitude is what makes the corporate sector of the aviation industry the destination for pilots that never made it to a real job.
There are few good corporate jobs, but is up to all of us to raise our own bar.
Please, anybody entering the corporate world, don't give up on yourself.
Now of course, we will read about a bunch of guys; how good is their life at home, even with no hard days off at all, playing golf, staying with the kids, and when they do fly is just like a vacation trip, and the boss is like family, and the last minute call (almost) never arrives etc etc.
Bla bla bla.
Well, guess what? They are just barely content, and they won't admit that could be much better with real hard days off.
Deep inside they know it, they just won't admit it.
Unfortunately all it takes is few bad apples to ruin it for everybody else.
Pilots that think other pilots should be fired for abiding to their contracted scheduled days off. Pilots that never say no. These are the bad apples.
Thanks to them, having 10 days off a month in corporate world is a rare luxury.
Thanks to them, your cell phone is expected to be on 24/7.
Thanks to them, you will be "asked" to take your vacation during the annual.
Thanks to them, when you were flight available, but did not fly, you were "off".
Go ahead, lynch me, for what I care.