Really? So I'm not sure if this is a true story but I'd heard it some years back.

A guy had a checkride but for whatever reason, midway thru the sim, the sim stopped working. So, he was told to go home and someone would call him from training and coordinate a reschedule. According to story, he wasn't called for about a year. So, he sat at home and earned his 75 hrs a month - never bidding. Once the company realized that he wasn't flying, training called and asked him why he hadn't called anyone to tell them he needed to complete his checkride. His response was classic - "I shouldn't have to do someone else's job. I'm available for training whenever you want to schedule me." Of course, after that, he was given a sim and thereby returned to the line.

Do you think there was EVER a time he complained about being paid for not working?

Some guys want to start flying to get their 1000 121 time to upgrade or move on. Sitting around for a year getting paid sounds nice until you realize you basically wasted a year of career progression.

Boo hoo the 22 year old who went from CFI to Major has to wait a month for OE.

This story is almost assuredly false and if they're happy doing the bare min and getting paid, more power to them.

Everyone has their wants, needs, priorities etc. Sitting idle for a month+ without a schedule and in a scenario where overnight your schedule could change, for some, genuinely sucks. Hard to commit to plans when any morning you could be assigned some flying with a minimum 48 hours lead time. but the cOmpLaIniNg

Don't be an ass because some people had more fortune than yourself. Maybe folks just want to not suck at their job because they went through training and then had to wait a month+ on their first type. For about half of my class this is our first jet experience.

So, I just want to be sure I got this correct. You (or the some guys you refer to) are complaining that you have to wait to use F9 as your stepping stone to elsewhere? And the "elsewhere" you want to go won't hire you due to not being fully qualified (hours wise) but you're complaining about the one place that did hire you? And they're paying you over 100k/year?

THIS is your complaint?

You DO know you can go to any regional right now (I'm sure they'll hire you) and get those same hours....probably much quicker.

Made me laugh

Give him a break. How's he going to pick up all that open time and complaint there's no open time if he doesn't get done with IOE?

35 yrs ago I would have jumped at the chance to go from a MEII to an A320 fo.......
just saying

As for me, I enjoyed making 12k hand flying Metroliners all over New England just to have the company go bankrupt.
While it was excellent flying experience, I would have gladly gone from CFI to Airbus!

QUOTE=ReserveCA;3818839]35 yrs ago I would have jumped at the chance to go from a MEII to an A320 fo.......
just saying[/QUOTE]