You can live a happy upper middle class lifestyle on permanent 2nd year pay. Whether WB B or NB A happens in 5 years or 10 years or that you’re going to have however many years as WB A are all finer points.

the elephant in the room is your income going to zero when they furlough all the way down to your class and no further.

unless a bases decision is extremely important to you I wouldn’t advise anyone to move from any big 3 seniority list for pretty much any other reason.

Nobody knows when the music is going to stop and 1000, 100 or even 1 seniority number junior to you on the list can dramatically change your life way more than whether company A has more ____ than company B.