My flight yesterday that was supposed to be a 3 hour flight took off 2.5 hours late and then ended up being a longer flight due to a couple of holding patterns. When the original delay was announced, the flight attendants were trying to figure out what the cause of the delay was--looking in the computer at the gate--and one of them said, "Great. Now we're not going to get paid." What is that all about? Do flight crews not get paid for time waiting around in a delay?

This would perhaps explain why they were uniformly rude throughout the flight--or maybe they are always like that.