Nope. Not buying that excuse/cop-out. You can replace "AA management" above with [any airline management] and the same holds true. If APA/AA pilots spent as much energy fighting to raise the bar as they do making excuses for why they can't, we'd actually be getting somewhere as an industry.

Instead, as a group, you're just an anchor weighing the rest of us down. you've had what, 2-3 bites of the apple to RAISE the bar, and failed every time. I'd be ashamed to ask for a jumpseat on DL or UAL.