Taking a 250 hour pilot for crap pay is one thing. To be forced to go to a 1500 hour pilot and offer the same pay scale is something different...no sympathy on my end if you head to a regional after 1500 is law and 'accept' the same conditions that we see right now. Hopefully in that extra 1250 hours you'll pick up a little knowledge as to how valuable a commercial cert will be to regionals, assuming that like others here have commented that regionals don't snatch and grab low time wonders and grandfather enough in before August 2013.