Funny isn't it.
People get on here to moan about the decline in professional standards, and when someone, Centaurus in this instance, puts his hands up and raises an issue that is clearly an issue and people shoot him down on the basis that they had to put up with the crap he was describing and therefore why whinge about it!
Aviation is a business with razor thing margins and clearly this tempts people to cut corners, but I would rather fly a well maintained aeroplane with a ****ty paint job rather than a shiny looking turd.
Medicine is another business where bastardisation and bullying exists and because it has always been thus it is therefore ok to continue. Different issues but unacceptable nonetheless!
If we don't listen to the lessons of the past we are condemned to repeat them.
As for the regulator allowing this sort of stuff to occur, they are too busy pole vaulting over mouse **** to worry about the real issues.