I did absolutely nothing at a job once. I got paid for the ENTIRE time I was there. I think this is part of the problem in the airline industry. "oh its not that bad, we could work for {insert airline name here}". Most of us accept it because we love to fly and hated that other job.

Honestly though, it is that bad. Ive also heard the whole we have to be competitive issue. That's fine, be competitive but why are we competing for pay with other ALPA airlines? Shouldn't ALPA have some sort of standardization here?