That you have harsh feelings is not in dispute. Who "screwed" who is a little more ambiguous. I believe it was you that wrecked your bosses airplane, was it not, or did we get that part wrong?
Juxtaposed to:
You totalled their aircraft by flying a piston engine airplane over the ocean in thunderstorms at night, and they kept you employed for an additional two weeks, and then offered to help find you another job when their insurance would no longer carry you due to your recent accident history and total lack of experience. You find this unfair exactly HOW??
Lets see here, pilot flies piston airplane out over the ocean at night in thunderstorms, gets struck by lightening, destroys airplane...and has complete disrespect for others who view themselves as disposable. If you're willing to push yourself that far, you've got to know that sooner or later you're a statistic. Seems you're the one who views himself as being disposable, else you wouldn't be doing that now, would you? You have, therefore, zero respect for yourself.
By your own assertion, logic follows, you are to blame for the industry problems, and from your posts, indeed you are. You feel the world owes you a living, you feel that you are something you are not. Apparently neither your employer, nor the industry, agrees with you. The insurance company apparently doesn't see things the way you do, either. Be sure to slam them while you're up on that soapbox.
Pilots are a dime a dozen, and from the corporate perspective, we are all disposable. Have you not learned that by now?
A wise decision, perhaps the best one you've made yet. Apparently a person can make a living with no skills in a Navajo, too, though there's always that 27,000 dollar thing and the responsibility.
You aren't by chance talking about a salary, are you?
Would that be the xeroxed copy of the "contract," your only copy in this lonely world, the one that spelled out your salary (the one to which you were no longer entitled because your employment had been terminated)? That contract? You didn't happen to see the words "at will" at any point in that contract, did you?
I don't believe I've seen any pilot salary contract that promised the money regardless of the term of employment, and regardless of pilot performance. You got quite a deal there, but it was probably because of your vast experience in high dollar turbojet equipment (GIV, wasn't it?). Shame your boss stole your contract from you, though. What are bosses coming to these days?
Most folks would have figured that out a long time ago.
That whole "dirt nap" thing sounds really dramatic, almost micky spillaneesque. All you needed was a broad, and a dark rainy night. Actually, you had the dark rainy night...anybody else on board with you at the time?
Just how does one take a "dirt nap" in the ocean? Does the ocean not wash off the dirt? Where does the dirt come from? Can one nap in the ocean? Or is that just a figure of speech?
What does one do from 4,000' at night in a thunderstorm after being struck by lightening to wrinkle wings and avoid taking a dirt nap, anyway? I'd think that at a minimum your employer would be paying you at least the cost of the airplane for such strong flying skills that you managed to fly the wreckage home to him so that he could file a claim.
Keep going. This is good stuff. You're about fifteen feet down and still digging...
