Originally Posted by
Harrier Dude
And I was one of them.
"You guys will be holding lines by Thanksgiving", they told us during training.
In fairness, they didn't mention that it would be Thanksgiving 2018.
It's your inalienable right to gripe. Bear in mind though that there are pilots here, hired during the Clinton administration, who currently are not lineholders; even in the right seat of the lowest paying airplanes and not all by choice.
I hope your luck and timing in this wonderful industry is better than ours.
Semper Fi.