Originally Posted by sweetholyjesus

Because we're a union workforce and it's hard to fire people. And the captains here are highly experienced in the airplane (because it takes forever to upgrade) and have managed to keep the kid from hurting himself and others
He would not have upgraded at AWAC, he would have been the second name on the training department's list of lifer FOs. I would be shocked if he even decided to attempt upgrade training at PDT. He can just sit as an FO and continue to be babysat until he flows to mainline, as apparently others have done when they failed upgrade training. Scary stuff.