It isn't just the horrendously low pay pay. It's the lies, the no pay for training, no transportation to get to the interview, how terrible their management is, what your life will be like while trying to live on the pay, how your days will go, how little chance you will have to upgrade, how they treat their employees, the fact that they are in serious financial hurt and more. They are the pariah of the industry.
Their training dept is second to none. I don't know how it is now but it "used to be" being an ex-Laker was a badge of honor and got you where you needed to go, ie not the left seat of an RJ but the right seat of a Boeing.
I didn't mention their training which is supposed to still be good, but everything else that goes along with that job is shameful and unpalatable, IMO. People need to seek out other options.
At 250 hours you are building experience and time. Lakes is a perfect place for both. Or you could do 50 patterns in a 152 per day with students. The guys who are young and at the majors took the hit early on and didn't spend 10 years at a commuter rotting away.
There's a lot of 91 and 135 VFR/135IFR SIC jobs out there. Try that for now. You can even make a good paycheck.
