I don't know what the OP is talking about with the thousands of dollars worth of loans. Some in the flight attendant class during my new hire class were AMAZED that we had to go through "a whole 8 weeks of training?! Ours is only 4 weeks!"

Seriously, they thought we were just hired off the street and they were turning us into pilots in 8 weeks. (Insert great joke about ATP students here)



However, back to the original subject. I would just LOVE to print out the OP and hand it to some flight attendants while the original poster was standing in front of them. After it took them the 15 minutes to read it, he'd be beat into a pulp.

The best thing that makes and FO's job better than the FA's is what separates us - a reinforced, lockable cockpit door.