Surely not!
Sounds like a potential example of an atrociously unchecked Flight Operations management team; “lead” by some of the industries most laughable and notorious incompetents you will encounter ever, anywhere in your career?
Could only be a mythical scenario; where you have, say, a senior flight ops manager, encumbered not only with a personality disorder (narcissistic tendencies, delusions of competence, personal insecurity etc), who despite holding an “illustrious” TRE certificate, can’t even open an aircraft door (whilst dubiously “assessing” someone on behalf of the regulator...) without deploying a slide narrowly missing ground staff?
This would only be one but example of this mythical individuals long list of dangerously incompetent antics whilst holding a gifted seat of authority; like, using a busy ATC ground frequency to issue instructions to company aircraft, stating his/her managerial title over the airwaves, applying and insisting on pilots using his/hers personal “techniques” that contradict the manufacturer - some of them downright dangerous, a list of reportable incidents as PIC..
You can you imagine the culture if he/she weren’t alone in their scarily delusional self proclaimed positions of respected authority?
If there were a place where the acumen at the top is represented by such an appalling lack of professionalism, one could presume the crew training and mis-guided understanding of “standards” may be derived from their own insecurities; given their worldwide reputations...?
I doubt such a place exists, it’s the modern age.
Yeap, unfortunately what you said is 100 percent true. I am told he actually crashed a few planes in the outback before and has the most FOQA at the company especially for the way he taxiis. Napoleon syndrome for sure. He is definitely not well liked and now I can see why.