Varmint, Your post brought tears to my eyes it was so spot on. However, you did forget to mention the inane policy of checking and rechecking of personal documents in briefing. Is there ANY airline in the entire world that does this? Takes up valuable briefing time.
But we could run this thread to infinity with regard to some of these whacko policies that come from said managers. And that is where our frustrations come in. We are held to a standard to which if said managers where held to the same standard, well we all know what the result would be.