Put a new guy in the bottom of the Airbus bid pack, and 6-9 months after flying that stuff, it doesn’t matter if he’d lose money wise by punching.
I'm seeing a lot of newhires on the bus flying relatively senior trips. Either they have moved up so quickly they can hold the lines, or decent trips on a VTO, or they are savvy enough to trade for them. The guys/gals I fly with, even the new ones, seem pretty happy and can trip trade faster than I do. If you don't figure out the system and just work your schedule, you may be unhappy no matter how senior you are.
It makes me wonder if BAe3100FO was junior and didn't figure out how to trip trade. I never purposefully flew an ugly trip, because if I didn't like it, I dropped/traded it. Sometimes even the best of trips can get delayed or revised into something unpleasant, however, if one is repetitively flying crappy trips, then I suspect they are not taking action to change that. In over 20 years at FedEx, I have averaged less than 20 block hours a month. It would take effort to make that as miserable as described.