Originally Posted by
JoePatroni
Maybe we should use professional negotiators instead of pilots.

Right, except when professional negotiators look all the **** we get paid for that we don't ever do, it would wash
Originally Posted by
rvfanatic
Let’s start with paying more than 3.75hrs for a 6hr sim session and paying more than just $10 in per diem for a 4hr field standby. I wonder what your doctor wife thinks about that?
Often times, it doesn't matter if it's the spouse thats been with you since the beginning or a random stranger, trying to explain how we get paid is an exercise in futile and frustration laden.
There was one of those old "extranormal" videos of the cartoon conversations from long ago with a funny exchange of a pilot explaining how we get paid to a passenger, pretty much summer it up.