[QUOTE=paidtowait;157416]I tend to agree with HMP even though I sense some degree of sarcasim.
I understand the intent of the artical, and it opens a great topic for discussion.
However, who is Hassling who about not having enough fuel? Certainly not the rest of the cockpit crew. I know from personal experience that tension in (within)the cockpit is not going to be about how much fuel is needed to complete the intended trip with the appropriate safety margins.
In some Corporate Operations the two pilot flight Dept. can be the most challenging cockpit environment. Why?, well it is almost like being married. Don't laugh. Imagine every trip, some times many days on the road spent with the very same person 99.5 % of the time. And then imagine that, that person is also your Boss, the "Cheif Pilot". This is the breeding ground for tension in the cockpit. Now imagine broching subjects like pay raises, job performance, etc. There is no place to retreat or step back and cool off when conflicts arise. You just have to get in the cockpit and get the job done.
I could right a book on my many years of experience on this subject. And yes I am usually the "quiet professional" because that is the attitude I must have in order to survive the environment.
My hats off to those who are the "quiet professionals", you make the difference when the heat is on.

The article was written primarily for UPS pilots, and has as much (if not more) to do with the corporate culture at Brown. All other UPS employee groups are institutionally taught to resent, mis-trust and envy the pilot group. Classic divide and conquer (a union busting technique), but these hillbillies (UPS senior management) still believe you haven't paid your dues unless you started working the sort as a teenager and they HATE to hire outside the inbred system that they all came up through unless they have to; for example anything that requires anything above a GED from Kentucky. Also, they try to set flight crews up to be anything that could be construed as disrespectful to ground support types so they can slap them with charges of whatever -ism they can trump up. It emboldens and reinforces the resentment of flight crews, divides and conquers unity and makes crews think twice about rocking the boat. The author's point in my mind was to make the "screamers" among us count to ten (in Roman numerals) and then kill them with kindness, thereby taking away one of the union busting weapons in management's arsenal, all the while protecting captain's authority and getting the gas we need. I think it's a cheap shot casing on the author not knowing the context and the audience he was writing for.