Yep hiring sucks, but there are other factors at play beyond Kirby is out to screw everything up.

1) TK is a construction mess
2) We quite rapidly displaced the most senior fleet with the whale
3) Failed to train bumps to allow effective redeployment (34 TDY's
into 777 SFO next month )
4) Completely bungled closing the Chief Scabliner base

Incompetence has it's price unfortunately. Training resources are tapped.