Good to hear Twiglet.
But undoubtedly, many many flight ops depts have relinquished FARRRRR too much power to HR and alike.
I don't work for J2 anymore so my input is merely a thread drift. However, I will say that they have an enormous problem with support / admin departments such as HR and Travel Services having far far too much power and an inflated sense of their own importance. Infact, those departments alone are a big reason lots of people leave the business.
But, as I said, this is detracting from the thread subject at hand.