No, Prop-Ed, some jobs are NOT more important than others. Without everybody equally pulling their weight, there wouldn't be any aircraft in the sky to crash, if she doesn't get her sleep.
Journo interpretation is now irrelevant as the story has been printed and the damage has been done, regardless of what she actually said. At the Unit I am at, a thread is currently running on the intranet regarding the article, and I've no doubt that there is something similar going on at other stns. Lesson needs to be learned by whoever 'vets' these stories.
The pencil comment is rude and arrogant whether taken out of context or not...and simply reinforces the 'us and them' attitude. Please don't try and justify it just because she's one of yours.
For the rest of you truckies, how many of you Bergen wearers are going to hang around for her while she drags her Samsonite across the bondu if, God forbid, something did happen (assuming that the FP boys are unable to get out as they are too busy picking up their pencils and doing something less stringent)?