As AV Flyer observed, this is much about the legacy fiasco of BA 'management' as anything.
However, time to move on into the world of reality and common sense. i have some slight sympathy for some CC, but it's a hard world out there [as all other parts of BA have noticed, and acknowledged].
In the final analysis, 'working one down' and having the CSD do something constructive is hardly Armageddon ... except for the CSDs who believe in the their own self-importance. If they were that good, they might have actually ensured a decent CW service on my last few sectors: as they didn't, I have no sympathy whatsoever.