Wow.... sorry to hear that about AA, but I had a feeling that it slowly has become an industry-wide thing.... I could swear though that there was a time that it wasn't like that... and my overall consensus is that F/A's are less prone to that "management is out to get you" work environment in east bases, whether AA, US, CO or UA...
There were a number of times that I JS on AA and I saw some pretty brutal stuff coming from F/As towards the passengers. That was the Miami base though.... East mentality, I guess, is completely different, management doesn't seem to nit-pick on little stuff... but I could be wrong. Maybe we were in the midst of a whole management-(union) employee relationship change.
I always wondered, considering that so many more F/As get fired in PHX, compared to all other bases at the east together...