I think what us "young guys" find out on the line or here in the forums is a tit-for-tat type argument. My scenario was worse than yours, no mine was, no mine was, and you have a couple of people fighting like children.

In the regional world, we saw our CEO's making millions of dollars during the worst recession in our Country's history. Meanwhile, they were telling us we had to keep cutting costs to make ourselves more competitive, or else we'd lose our flying. We were nothing more than contractors. Hell, the regional world is still the same today as it was back then. The only difference is they have to pay the pilots because of simple supply/demand. There aren't a lot of young whippersnappers at Riddle/UND/Purdue who want to be pilots, because the idea of making very little money while paying back an asinine amount of student loans is not appealing. Why would it be?

My point with this diatribe is this: pretty much every pilot here at Mother D has made a sacrifice somewhere along the way. Regardless of your sacrifice, whatever cross you choose to bear, I think we could all do better to not belittle each other. Let's come together to get the contract we deserve.