Very few know how crappy things are coming in. Granted, you can do a lot of research online and get copy's of contracts. But that is something "new".

It really ticks me off when everyone says "you knew this coming in". BULL! They drink the KOOL AID management feeds them because there is no one to tell them any different. The only way they LEARN is by experiencing it! Don't tell me you knew how everything was going to be when you went to your first airline.

Of course this job is better than some flight instructing/freight/ect gigs, but that doesn't mean it isn't crappy.

I think the people who complain are the ones who've worked for good companies in the past and got spoiled. The ones who don't complain are the ones who don't know any better and are use to being treated like crap.

If I know what I know now. I would NEVER have gotten into aviation.

Oh well...Hind sight.