I am currently contracting at the Greasy lot (I am one of the bunch made redundant from bmi and took up a flexiscrew contract)
Hmm. I don't expect that impresses time-served "Greasy" FOs one little bit.
What did you expect? To have your vaseline provided foc?
Grin and bear it, before you get it vaseline free.
And if you plan to go through a career in bed with such a bunch of rogues as that with no protection at all, you'll soon be dreaming of the help you'd have got from BALPA. Just how blinkered, short termist, cheap, selfish and superficial can people get?
Best of luck. You're gonna be needing it.