Reporting culture in emirates

[givemewings]

And again I would ask you, how do you know!!!

Are you 100% sure of your information? Crew have a very nasty habit of jumping on a bandwagon due to galley FM, I can cite you a case I know of personally where a whole crew (in a different airline) put around the rumour that one of the girls had slept with a colleague on a layover and it was not true. That girl was bullied and harrassed by her 'team' members for it and eventually ended up quitting the job because people called her 'slut' on flights afterwards. All because of some half-baked story that people not really in the know believed!

I'm not saying it's the same here but we cannot know the full story from something posted on PPRuNe. If true then yes it is shameful behaviour however the issue I took is with the wording of some of the posts here. If you mean not socialising on the layover or whatever, then fine. But these messages come across as intention to bully or harrass said person for something which may or may not be true... and that is very slippery ground.

Again, my point is- distancing yourself (your words) from a crewmember whose actions you do not approve of is very different from 'making them feel unworthy'- which IMHO is behaviour on the same level as what you all claim to hate. Not engaging in galley chitchat is a different beast to making snide comments or throwing looks at someone and no matter what you say ignoring a member of the crew to the point of exclusion will poison the working environment to the detriment of the other crew. You may feel better completely ignoring someone but trust me everyone else (including the pax) notice this kind of thing and then you would have to explain why you are doing this to crew who are not 'in the loop'- again something which is actually not their business if they are not personally acquainted with the case.

Again it's sad that this resulted in someone having their career hurt and loss of benefits etc, however I think this is something for that person to address and take up on their own behalf rather than people going on some campaign to take matters into their own hands. You may just find yourself on the wrong side of the employee regulations. If you are friends of said person then your emotion is understandable but if you are not then again I ask how you can know so definitely and specifically a) who the reporter was and b)the exact details of the case.

This is one isolated incident which I have heard of in the last few years so to run with it and say there is a snitching culture in the airline, is a bit of a stretch in my opinion.

Edit: Could it also be a case of not having the documentation to back up the extra breaks? I've been on flights where for whatever reason breaks were extended and supporting reports written by purser & captain, nothing 'bad' happened because the paper trail was there. Or is there another reason we don't know of why it was not accepted in this case? Most of us will probably never know and therefore is why I am urging caution in running with this on a forum of this type...