because then he’s not hoping for you and 500 of your friends to have also been furloughed as you assumed and ridiculed him for. He’s just musing about a specific person that he has distaste for to have been furloughed vice someone he has no distaste for. I’m sure if you had a say there are some pilots you would rather see on the furlough list than others. And if you say you wouldn’t then you are just being dishonest with yourself.