Originally Posted by Elevation

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.