G to be honest these people are pretty much standard now across the UK working at airports..
It doesn't matter what the airmanship reason is why your are doing something if it doesn't fit in with what there interpretation of the rule book is it is there right to throw a fit. And I think that pilot being in the main alpha males (including the burds) don't instantly recognise the percieved status of ground ops director little piddlington intergalatic space port.
The fact that later in the main they find out the are largely impotent in the grand scale of things annoys them even more, and the next breach of their labour of love rule book incures an increased rath.
You won't change anything by complaining. But at least posting on here and making it public will annoy the pillock even more.
There are a few goodun's out there though. It does seem related though to how much of an aviation god the SATCO is and how much control they have over the ground ops.