Dang you nailed it, but his wasn't misfortune, Katrina was misfortune, his was plain stupid, and he is gonna hafta pay for it, sorry!
PBR
Oh and make no mistake about it, PBR... he WILL be paying for this mistake. For a LONG time to come.
Even if he retains his job, he will be the laughingstock of the company. He likely will have to enter a HIMS program, and might not see an aircraft for another 6-8 months or more which will then require him to re-do his training and checkrides. I don't think he was finished with consolidation.
Even if he manages it back through all that, he now has a bullseye on his back. He's painted it there and there's nothing he can do about it. The next time he does something even vaguely questionable, he'll be doing a carpet dance explaining why, then doing a random drug and alcohol screening. Every time. For life.
Then, to get OUT of pcl, he's going to have to tell this story again,,, and again,,, and again,,, putting the best spin on something that was fairly stupid, but at least non-aviation oriented, and try to get an HR department to hire a known HIMS problem candidate when there's thousands of other non-problem children to choose from. That sounds SO familiar to me right now...
Can't tell you how hard his life is about to get. Personally, I think he has enough hell coming his way for the next few years without wishing anything else on him.
But that's just me. I'm about the punishment fitting the crime, and the mental anguish this is levying on him, especially the knowledge that he brought it on himself, will certainly guarantee it won't happen again. Suits my "reciprocity" factor in justice that I don't need to add anything more to the fire.
