Originally Posted by
RJSAviator76
On the other side of the coin, I have flown with captains at Southwest who would gripe with the best of them, yet the worst thing that ever happened in their 25+ year career was...... what? A merger where they came out on top? They certainly outearned their legacy peers by leaps and bounds, and all while the rest of the industry lost half our pay, lost our pensions, saw stagnation due to age 60 getting unstatus-quoed, etc. etc. There is no such thing as cookie-cutter career that everyone feels they're entitled to, but collectively, we sure can whine with the best.
But sure is hypocritical.
I've made the comment that guys born on 3rd base are complaining that another guy has taken a step off of 3rd base towards home - "I'm getting screwed!" It makes FOs heads spin - "nothing worse than a 777/787 Captain complaining about how bad he's had it..." The guy they're whining to? He's had it much worse. I always say "it could be worse...you could be married to them."