So slinging gear for you has “a meaning behind it”... but taking the first possible upgrade for you wasn’t an ego decision? Sorry bud, calling bullspit.

Lifestyle matters and if furloughs hit deep enough, you get downgraded anyways. By your own admission you went to the left seat as soon as you could because the 4th stripe soothed your rampant insecurities as a “high lift device and undercarriage repositioning technician”