I know it sounds bad, but it’s the truth and I’m not going to sugar coat it. I’ve been there, you want to believe it’s not happening, you want to think at the last minute that things will change and there is no way it will happen, then it’s here and it does happen. The best advice I can give is to have your finances in order. Flying isn’t the only job out there. If you need to replace 1st year pay, it’s not hard to find a job to at least get by on. Don’t blame me because of my position. I was in that same position before trying to replace $150k job.
This place is in survival mode. I don’t think any of our jobs are completely safe. We don’t know what the future holds, a merger, bankruptcy, downgrades management tactics. I’ll say it again, this place does not care and will be looking to extract anything it can from this group. Ignore their scare tactics.