They know exactly how to use company resources.... until they drop dead or plow an airplane into a house due to exhaustion.
Seriously though, if a company knew how to use company resources, we wouldn't have PBS "doing it" for them. We also wouldn't be severely overstaffed in one base but understaffed in the remaining three. We wouldn't have "punished" 30 pilots by forcing them to downgrade. If they knew how to use company resources, we wouldn't be getting "denied due to staffing" during a day in which there are 20 reserves available (for a 16 airplane base).
If a company could staff probably, they wouldn't be sweating the fact they are paying 75 hours of time to guys who are flying 6 hours a month.
You definitely sound like management in the making. I suggest you go back to your business degree classes because you're not winning any points here asserting that we are overstepping our bounds in our attempt to get safety into the equation for the pilots.
I suppose you think we're overpaid.... I make $2000 a month and I'm a fairly well paid 2nd year FO at my company.