Your "certain perspective" is off..Did you get used to the pay that you were receiving as a Capt i.e. just bought the new Capt house, or Capt car etc??? And just as you were settling in have your pay cut by 20% or 50% in some cases...I think not, you coulda shoulda, blah blah blah, Just because you are a professional FO and will probably never upgrade doesn't mean the rest of us who chose to upgrade bidding 100% shouldn't be ****ed off because our union has allowed back seat over 60 guys to excess off the 727/DC-10 with no other vacancy postings available compounding this whole mess. You didn't take a pay cut. But a lot of other guys did and your attitude is typical of a guy who is not getting bumped off your current seat...