Originally Posted by
Bungalow
Allow me to point out some of life practical realities.
You don’t deserve anything. You are, hopefully, in control of your own professional destiny. As long as you willingly continue to work for the “slave driver” you have forfeited that control.
You don’t get to tell the “slave driver” how to treat you or how to run his affairs. They’re his.
You however, have the opportunity to run your own. Use it.
Constantly coming here to cry and complain wont do you any good. Just makes you look small.
A similar thought which is usually expressed is something like this: "You made dumb career choices to land you in this ACMI, so eat up the terrible return on your dumb investment."
Let's be careful about entertaining these notions as well. It wasn't so long ago that we had UPS and United furloughs and those UAL and UPS pilots were beating our doors down to come fly here and elsewhere. We could have turned that same thought on those guys. "You made your dumb choice to go to a giant company that has a history of dumping pilots. Enjoy Walmart 'til you get your recall, chump!".
The reality is there are a lot of factors behind your seniority number. Some of those factors are within your control and some aren't.