Let me see if I got this straight.
5 minutes to go through 100 pages of flight plan and prepare for an intercontinental flight (safety is our top priority, you know). If we take more, we get blamed for any delay the flight will suffer, regardless of whether our 'late' arrival on the aircraft actually causes it, which it NEVER does.
Yet strangely, advancing sign-on time appears to be out of the question?
Methinks the third floor is getting some heat from above and the only way they can deal with it is to pass the sh#t downwards.
I don't know what's more pathetic. The fact that they're trying to look for a scapegoat for their clusterf#ck of an operation or the distinct possibility that they genuinely believe this will fix their dwindling OTP... Gotta love the corporate world.