What you are reading in this thread has been brought about by the Western style of management, where you have foreigners tripping over themselves to show the Sheikhs how clever they are.
Some animals eat their own, and most airlines with overseas management, are nicely fattened.
In companies in Singapore like Scoot, Tiger etc, they pay the locals at the top at least 3 times that of the serfs, and a share of any budgetary savings they can withhold from them.
Overall, the bottom line of supply and demand is the key. But conditions, respect, blatant lying, shifting the goalposts, depend on how much management pilots think they can get away with.
After all, they have to show Marketing and finance that they too are not pilots.