My airline had a L1011 with a L1 door down route that would not lock closed.....
There was only one copy of the L1011 Mel in those days back at base and the ops manager basically sat on this secret in his office and issued dispensations like God .... most line Captains were unaware of this Mel manuals existence and simply did what they were told by the ops manager.
The delayed Captain who was aware of the new Mel system cheekily asked ops if he "Could take the aircraft and fly the schedule on time with passengers provided he left open the R3 door to normalize the airflow through the cabin from the L1 door and he considered this would avoid a delay?"
The level of knowledge by our leaders in ops caused them to ask the
ops manager who did not know much about the L1011 anyway to urgently consulted his secret Mel....being unsuccessful in his search for a dispensation he phoned the engineering department who asked for the Captains name...on receiving it they said "Oh him! He is just taking the piss!