What makes you think anyone believes YOU any more than your so-called colleague? After all, you are BA.
If he wants to be believed, let's have a CV, name/rank/number, if not, well, I suppose this IS a rumour network!
I see there's no refuting the seatbelt story - I remember another of you guys grounding the jet because there were no wipes for the headsets! You couldn't make this stuff up.