If you're talking about the "Evian Incident" at QR, yes it really happened - however it was a good 5 or 6 years ago.
Working environment in that outfit is absolutely unbelieveable ... the culture of fear, grassing up your workmates, cabin crew constantly reporting against pilots for any tiny infractions and vice versa, it's worse for cabin crew there's probably a dozen of them sacked every week, but the CEO likes to keep the pilots on their toes by occasionally sacking one or two of them for ridiculous minor offenses as well. They are the only airline in the world I believe that actually has a "termination department".
That, unfortunately, is the way the CEO wants it to be ... he can't provide, or isn't willing to pay for, a happy working environment or a loyal workforce, so the only way he can maintain some measure of control is the constant fear of instant dismissal hanging over everyone's head.