By "Hamsters" I presume you mean those of us who were fortunate enough to be trained at that seat of excellence, the College of Air Training, Hamble - ah, yes, those were the days!
Well let me put my hand up and plead that I was so trained! However, I have spent circa 15 years with the charter airlines so please don't assume that all of us have spent all our years with the "corporations".
Since when has where you have done your training had anything to do with FTL etc?!
Discretion means precisely that DISCRETION and should NORMALLY be used where "circumstances warrant such action". If discretion is being applied on a regular basis with a particular company then need one say more? One presumes the CAA would act in the case?
There are many very skilled aviators who have been trained at many different establishments and we all have a valuable contribution to make but us "hamsters" went to Hamble because we wanted to be professional airline pilots and that's what we were trained to be!