Prepared for FDP?
CivAirs set the limits and the discretions. Obviously, they'll chk records, and I hope they'll be right. NO CivAir will say you cannot reach the limits. When these are met, the crew stops flying until is legal to so again. How many times has this happen, really?
Again, I remark that if a pilot (or cabin crew) is fatigued he has to say so in time for timely trouble-shooting and not with the intent to screw up things.
Statistics will eventually say that this same pilot (or cabin crew) has the higher nš of "misses". The same applies to any ground staff or anyone else in any biz. The numbers don't lie at the end of the year. They help gauge things. I ain't a cost controller, but I don't need to be a rock scientist to figure it out.
Ref "making friends or not", it depends from what angle u r looking at things. In this aviation biz, we all have to fill our shoes properly. That's what one has accepted to do for that price (contract signing?). Opportunities will eventually occur to go UP. If promises were made and not met, u've got to deal with them yrself (but that's a different topic).
Flying staff have to fly, Despatchers/Flt Followers have to despatch and flt-follow, Crew Schedulers have to schedule crews, Loadmasters have to their job and so on. All have to play the part and within LEGAL BOUNDARIES.
To keep our jobs, we all have to do our best to make the biz profitable. There is a lot of prejudice under the desguise of FDPs, sickness (notes or certificates) and a nš of internal and other regs. Anyway, this is a very subjective issue like many other.
A good performer will always be a good one and the bad one..... UNfortunately nowadays, it is general rule that a good performer usually gets penalised for being pro-active, on the DOT, communicating well and seeing as a trouble stirrer for certain management, while the bad ones get quickly rewarded more often because of "socialising" (spelling wrong?) and being chums. It's proven, this a new phenom and it works... for a while.
When the real truth is found out, it's usually too late and everything has to be restarted.
Rgds.