Cpt. Buzzard, relax man. With 1500 hrs you have not been around long enough to "get screwed". You are just sarting out and there will be many more bumps in the road so to speak. It is just the nature of the beast and all airline managers/ hr people are the same. And it does not matter whose shadow they are hiding behind; North West, Sky West, America West, South West, none of them have any respect for the situations that they cause to arise in your life and none of them are your friend period the end