Taters was one of the lucky ones. For every Tater there may be 2 or 3 who were not so lucky. You would fly with a guy one day and then never see him again. People just disappeared. Guys like Tater were the ones who never asked the question, "where did that guy go?" Maybe he had to take FMLA leave because his wife needed surgery - Fired. Maybe he wasn't the gal who got breast cancer and the company would be liable for 500k in medical treatment - checkride then fired, instant 500k savings for the owner. Maybe Tater was never a check airman who was told to takeoff with a 15 kt crosswind at night while it was snowing, off of a slippery and contaminated runway. Maybe Teter never got the call from a strange number only to find it was someone from the company calling on a private line so it would not be recorded telling him to change something in the logbook from a couple of days ago.

At Gojet it was not really who you were, how good you were, or what you did. It was more of a question of what circumstances you ended up in by chance. There is always a Gojet out there and it is always best to avoid it.