Fedup- if you were to stop me in the hall in the middle of a 3-day and say "Do you like it here". I would have to answer with something along the lines of
-I love a challenge and that is all pinnacle is right now. The long and hard fight towards a contract will pay handsomely when its all said and done. I am here for my 1000TJPIC and I am GONE. If I was in your shoes right now I would show up in training and get the type (SIC yea yea but its 121 experience) but I would still be sending my resumes out and looking very hard at which regional you WANT to work at (not just a job to have). If you get hired somewhere else then leave, if we get a contract you are ahead of the wave, and if you can't get the job you want now you are on your best path of resume experience to get there. This is a big choice you have to make that only YOU can make, but keep in mind the saying of "don't burn bridges behind you". If I had come here 6 months later with the same resume I would have gone to another regional, now I have pretty good QOL and will fight it out for the upgrade. There is a line in the seniority list where people get the shaft and where people get what they want. I have numerous friends who went from 15-17 days off to 10 getting nothing they bid for. I don't know where the line is but I feel bad for those who got the shaft.