"Lets face it, they aren't hired for their people skills are they?"
Take a look at yourselves, people. The posts above demonstrate the biggest lack of people skills I have seen on either side of the door in a long time. Spit, eyedrops, loo water, and (Shadowpurser, I know you are usually much better behaved - don't stoop to their level) penises are all things in tea that are not only disgusting but downright dangerous. It is very difficult to preach about the safety aspects of your role when you are capable of even thinking of sabotaging the people who fly you around in such a way.
While there are a few old school pilots still around (think of poor old me locked in the box at the front with one of them for 12 hrs), the majority of flight crew are highly professional people who work very hard at maintaining a good working relationship in spite of the locked door, and who are finding it increasingly difficult to interact with stroppy cabin crew who have the sort of attitude toward their colleagues flaunted in some of the above posts.
I have great respect for many of my cabin crew friends and colleagues. I have had some fantastic nightstops with them, and am usually greeted with pleasure as one of the gang when I fly at work. I would not dream of helping myself to their galley in flight in the same way as I wouldn't expect a CC to make free with the controls on the flight deck. However, every so often I am confronted by some incompetent harridan (like the one today who served me with not one, but two frozen solid meals resulting in me only eating a banana and a muffin I had brought with me and this had to last me 12 hrs). In these cases I don't think "she's awful, all CC must be that bad." I take a deep breath, try to do my job properly, and wait for the next crew to come along, safe in the knowledge that they will be better and I will be able to resume a normal working environment.