There was a culture of "get the job done" but as the guys you spoke to in ops were mainly young lads, they, to my knowledge, never put pressure on crews to carry an unsafe fault.
Well actually,they did! We were tasked with taking a shed from STN to LPL one night with BOTH R/H fire bottle discharge lights illuminated.When I asked the chief engineer how we would know if ,in the event of a fire, the bottles had discharged. His response? "you'll get a massive drop in ITT". News to me, I thought the discharge spray ring was
outside the turbine casing,not inside.
The penalty for not doing as we were told? I'll leave it to your imagination.