I never said that I believed Management have not over the years behaved in what I would consider a criminal fashion and gotten away with it, however, the fact is that we fly planes, and our behavior should inspire confidence. Regardless of what an ego does in a desk job their is no obvious direct psychological impact on passengers.
On the other hand, we know only too well that the decisions management take and the humiliation and fear mongering they do to us as a group does actually impact safety in that it damages our dignity and confidence, two things we need to do our jobs when well , yet we are expected to carry that burden. The general public are not as easily able to see that link.
There is a generic lack of morals and integrity at large today in most sectors of life the result of this is seen in financial, political, medical, religious and legal sectors as one by one those ego empires are collapsing causing international devastation. My question is, by backslapping this puerile and unprofessional behavior of a colleague, we are as bad as the rest. I think the man owes an apology to his colleagues for letting himself and the profession down and so does the woman.
I am not pontificating here on what people choose to do in their personal life but at least when they are being paid for a job they should take it seriously.
There is a lack of reverence prevailing and it is destroying many peoples lives.