Originally Posted by
ZapBrannigan
There's a not insignificant faction among this pilot group that thinks you should just move to your domicile. [emoji849]
They don't understand commuting and aren't sympathetic to pilots who commute - even if they're displaced or need to do it for the spouse's job, a divorce agreement, etc.
Can't tell you how many times I heard "well you CHOOSE to commute" when I was a commuter griping about the lack of long call reserve or commutable trips. (I understand they could've also just been trying to get me to quit griping)
My response to this is "you choose to live in base", meaning anything cool that commuters get is just benefiting another significant subset of pilots. It isn't like commuters are some strange outlier group that is asking for unreasonable accommodations.