Fourgolds, I got your sense of irony; you needn't have deleted your posts. If these fools cannot figure it out, then leave them to cry over their keyboards.
To echo what the chaser of kamels has said, our management heap as much responsibility as they possibly can onto the shoulders of the Captain, so that when the **** hits the fan, they will have someone to blame.
In return and at the same time, they remove as much AUTHORITY as possible from the same Captain over what goes on aboard the aircraft and involving the passengers he has responsibility for.
You only have to read through the FOM and OM-A to see this.
"please check destination and alternate weather before deciding on final fuel load"
I wish they had the balls to write that on every flight plan, instead of just the ones where they think there might be a problem and want to pass the responsibility for it to YOU.
That's right up there with the ignorant and insulting DISCLAIMER at the bottom of the ACARS messages from VPNC, etc, when they decide to get involved.
FLying in circles while you make a PA is great - right up until it becomes the critical factor in the time it took a fire to burn through a spar or a fuel line or whatever and disaster results.
Then the VPNC will say, "But HE was the captain. He shouldn't have stopped to make a PA if he didn't think it was suitable. It says so in the OM-A. "
They are loathable bottom-dwellers.