I have never, ever, EVER had any pilot--regional, mainline, or otherwise--give me any sort of guff for where I work (Chautauqua). It's just that the keyboard warriors here that are "changing the world" one whiny post at a time are an extremely vocal and annoying minority. Common sense would dictate that if there were ANY group of people that would understand how pilots factor in to the decisions their respective airlines make (as in not at all ever) it would be pilots. Curiously, this is not the case.
I'm all for unifying the profession but it will never happen as long as we have idiots swinging their "egos" around because X airline called them back for an interview before Y airline. Seriously, the week after I accepted a class date with CHQ I got calls from no less than five others at which I could just as easily have found myself--and I'm sure a large percentage of people are in the same boat, so what the crap are we all arguing about?