ahhh. tk mako ... (you are tk, right?)
i thinks you are conflating the ideas of "whining" and "legitimately bad to be on reserve sometimes at this airline"

yes. reserve was really "bad" in the early nineties. (you had to be phone avail 24/7 for strings of days and pretty darn close to the parking lot). and when we went to the bars down by the beach, we whined about it over beers.

and today, i guess, sometimes they call at odd hours and sometimes they ask pilots on reserve to be - horrors - near the parking lot ( and we call this "SC" now i guess). and ppl get online and "whine". it is still whining - even if it's on a forum and not at a beach bar AND even if it's truly truly true that it kinda pretty sucks to be on reserve

sometimes, mako, your posts make sense and at least make good efforts to be not-bland. so appreciated.
but don't attack the posters (like me) who point out whining when they see (and know) whining
i whined a lot on reserve. a lot.