Yes Multi-X, I thoroughly agree with your last posting. I might make the comment that it was management grade TMG LAE's who signed the workbooks of staff seeking to hold RMA status, there were only a couple of these guys in each area and for reasons best known to themselves they did so knowing that the books were works of fiction. Now that in recent months the Quality Dept has delegated the responsibility for this to non management LAEs and have dropped the requirement to scrutinise the workbooks themselves. The RMA staff are having a harder job filling in their books in the first place and then getting them endorsed. I hope any BA LAEs who might read this will think long and hard before taking on the role of the Quality Dept.
I would also point out that not everyone has accepted the supplemented LAE status as this opens the door to management leaning on you to go along with their plan.