Phileas,
You must be MOB coming up with a post like that. People need jobs which is the only reason lots of them put up with Emerald and the complaints are a symptom of this.
Does being a team player involve knowingly doing something illegal and by such action being part of it? (eg complicit with being rostered into discretion).
If I were Chief Pilot and someone came to me complaining about constantly being rostered into discretion I wouldn't send them packing seeing as it is forbidden by CAP371. I would hope that I already knew of it and had done something to stamp it out. If I could not influence things in that area I would have to consider my position as well as get straight on to the CAA. Mind you, if the mobster has made up his mind and issued an edict that FTLs are wrong and should be used as a guide only, then that's the way it WILL be so perhaps I'm being a little hard on my hypothetical Chief Pilot.
Just an observation