Ofcourse there will be serious "arse covering" as you say. Those not confident with their position are too afraid to even sneeze in the wrong direction fearing to be fired. This conclusion is derived from all the posts I've read around here in the past about EK management treatment.
Oh, and my comment about the parked plane/engine off etc etc was a sarcastic remark. Hence the new sentence/line and "sarcastic rolling eyes" at the end.
----Edited some vocabulary errors