Yeah, these self-induced "safety reports" are a real joke. However, sometimes, during a long boring flight,when you've finished with your playboy or hustler and there's nothing else to read, they hit the spot. Really, why anyone would fill out a report because they were stupid, is well.... just plain stupid. After all, what's to be learned from someone telling us that he was distracted and had a runway incursion, or that he missed the correct taxiway. What are those guys thinking? Do they actually think that if they turn themselves in, that the company will somehow come to their aid. They had better think again, because it'll never happen. In fact, the company could take that information and start trending that (those) guys. Safety reports should be about just that: safety. Not stupidity. There's nothing to be learned from you telling me that you busted an altitude or forgot to pull it back to below 250K below 10. We all know that stuff. Tell me about the fact that when the control wheel is 5 degrees left of center, while the jet is in a 4 degree nose-low attitude, that actuating the speedbrakes, flips the jet over. Now that would be a good thing to know, don't you think? The dumb stuff, keep to yourself and if need be, go to confession.

As for the captain wanting the crew to show up at a different time, as opposed to the actual check-in time, well, according to the FOM, he has that right. Hopefully, he'd also have enough CRM skills to let everyone know in advance and have a good reason for doing so. I think it's much less important domestically, but overseas, in say, Seoul, he might be thinking of the very long drive and just wants to make sure they don't run late. Sometimes having been there and done that gives one a perspective that might not be shared or understood by guys who have not had those experiences.