Totally agree! That's why I don't help with boarding procedures at the gate - otherwise it might hide the fact that Passenger Services are short-staffed; if a flight goes late because of short-staffing, then maybe management will belatedly pay attention; otherwise they will just assume we (as a team) can cope!
What about the summer season, when the dispatchers get sometimes asked to do two short-haul/low-cost turnarounds SIMULTANEOUSLY... something that's obviously unprofessional and unsafe, and that I now simply refuse to do (for the same reasons as mentioned above).
Cheers
