The augment policy is simply a "no respect for the employee" scheme. And deliberately so. Even the clowns down the road have 5 Y-seats where you can go out of the working crews way. And by that I mean the tech crew, galley operators, station personnel at the door, and even the passengers. We are simply in every one's way up there and distracting heavily. Even worse now that we are not allowed to help. But that's just a legal FCI, as to please the investigators. As augmenting crew we are to be invisible. Only when battling our way through 350 passengers, in a outfit merely suitable for the next gay parade, only then we are visible: "Just follow the queers with the cute nighty-night costumes, Osama, they'll lead you right up to the flight deck."
No respect for the employee is the subject.
It comes to no surprise that the treatment endured is given back by the victims. A recent experience as SLF (not recognised as crew) was very revelatory, the cabin crew were not rude, but simply robotic and absent minded, visibly fatigued and couldn't care less. Lots of flight deck operate in the same way, only to the book, robotic and quite inefficient. We lose a lot of money, unneccessarily, that way.
It is a human constant: We work the way we get treated.
