Just flew a trip that had been covered 5 times. FIVE. It was built by someone with zero understanding of the destination city and it's ability to do crew and airplane swaps. I called the duty pilot & crew tracking ahead of time to point out the obvious and it was a worthless effort since they had neither the power or inclination.

End result, two reroutes, an airplane swap, three plus hours delay, around 100 people put in hotels to try again the next day, rampers (at this station they do not like to clean airplanes) bullying inflight, FCRs filed and surely management interventions to follow.

Alternatively, I could have sicked out, reset my 30 hours and enjoyed a nice 4 leg three day that went out junior to me ... instead it is midnight and writing FCRs. With the incentives such as they are, what I did (my job) was really stupid. What is soul crushing is what we did to our customers. After a while you get tired of apologizing for something you saw coming, did your best to fix proactively and best to mitigate reactively.