It's so easy to make fun comments when the post is about FR, isn't it....
To the problem: pilots working for FR, who show up at the gate in uniform, can possition for free between their home and base. No boarding pass is issued, as we are put on the load sheet as an extra crewmember.
Last summer, the Management in FR claimed that they had received a number of complaints (letters) from pax regarding crew sitting in one of the overwing exits or row #1.
Noone knows if the company ever have received any complaints, but this led to the company issuing a MEMO saying that possitioning crew in uniform were not to sit in these rows.
Most pilots, cc, and dispatchers don't care about this "rule" and we sit wherever we like anyway. And as stated on these pages; in an emergency, a crewmember is better to have there than pax.
But the company policy stayes the same.
For other people paying a "full" fare with FR, you can sit wherever you want, and there should be no surprise that the CC that tried to move you, was at best a bit eager!
Next time the same happens, show of your boarding pass and ID, that should give the poor girl a hint!
And why shouldn't the last row (31) be considered an emergency exit?? Is the leg room to small for that?