Well if you count this website, you can chalk me up to the column of never having done that stuff. I do it on duty, with the exception of studying for another rating, which, read this very carefully, is not forced on you (I'm not counting corporate gigs where they might). If you get displaced into different equipment, or otherwised moved without your request, you *gasp* get paid for the training. If you wear the cell or pager on the weekend, then you're either on reserve (not a valid complaint), or you chose to do it. In any case, if you get called in, you get paid for it.
Ralgha, based on your miniresume under your name, you're very low experience....give it a few more years and get a few companies under your belt...some broader experience, and then make the same reply. You won't be a ble to do it honestly.
Big deal about ten years. We all know that back in the day it was not uncommon for pilots to be F/O's for 15+ years only to get furloughed towards the end and get hired with Eastern or Pan Am.
At major airlines, yes. At regionals, even "back in the day," no. More particularly, this person passed through the hottest hiring period in the history of aviation during his tenure with eagle, when upgrades were occuring at the fastest rate and the most consistant rate that they have occured, ever. This wasn't back in the day, this is today, and pre-09/11. Big difference.