Believe me this doesn't give us a bad name AT ALL.
Seriously? have you read what's in the local chinese newspapers about our complete lack of professionalism. Whats cool in a C152 in the circuit at Bankstown when you are 18 and your girlfriend has skipped school strangely isn't cool on a commercial aircraft with punters down the back.
Every CX wife out there views this as confirmation of what a bunch of lowlifes we are. What about the public's perception of our cabin crew or our cabin crew's perception of us?
Forget about the aviation angle, look at it from the position of a manager in any business using a position of authority over an employee several levels junior to him.
No wonder HR are spinning about it.