is this thread still about Key Lime Air ?
I worked at Key Lime for about 6 years and had time in the chieftain, 404 and the Metro's
Maintenance in that time was never a problem, the mechanics are good and know the planes well
As far as them telling you fly or your fired I never witnessed or heard of it , they do expect you to fly when the weather is at minimums and I would imagine if someone was not comfortable shooting approaches to mins and turned down too many flight's that were at or above minimums they would let you go, but I have not had a job where you could fly when you felt like it and get paid ..if you know of any pass it on I wanna work there.
as far as SIC goes ... if it was more work letting the SIC fly, than not letting them fly they got to load freight and watch me fly.
The only thing I can say was not cool there, was the UPS schedule, but the Metro is a great airplane when you get it dialed in, it's a blast.