Every airline in the history of airlines has sucked at some point... If there were message boards 35 or 40 years ago, there would be delta and southwest pilots saying, "don't come here!! This place sucks!!"... Just to offer some perspective here, half the world, around 4.5 billion people or so, make less than $2 a day... There are maybe 100,000 airline pilots in the us... That puts all of us in a very unique and impressive spectrum... Now you're going to say, "you're what's wrong with the industry... You're one of those *******s that's just happy to be paid to fly a plane." That couldn't be further from the truth... I think it's laughable and pathetic that a group of people could cite "economic conditions" as a reason for not giving the lowest paid pilots in the industry a pay bump, especially when we're one of the most profitable airlines... Management is doing their job and doing it well... They lack integrity and they're selfish but there's nothing I can do... If it gets to the point where I hate my job that much, I'll quit... In the end, I think they're shooting themselves in the foot but time will tell... If we directed the time and effort we put into these message boards toward our ultimate goal, we'd really get something done...