Actually..... I think there is an active bulletin that says if you don't have the final weights prior to taxi, complete the after start checklist with the planned weights and begin to taxi. Once the final weights are received and entered, brief the changes. This is then part of the "Departure Changes Brief" - Complete item on the Before Takeoff Checklist.

Small point, but it seems to have been missed during the avalanche of changes we incurred.

While I agree with the OP about the ridiculousness of our management's wasteful and horrendous performance, I also think if we are honest with ourselves we are the bottom of the barrel in fuel performance. It's all well and good to pound the chest and say this place sucks. But when every other major is going to earn a profit and sees their trend line up and we are going to post a loss and see our trend line down, I think it behooves us to try to perform. I don't particularly want to start over. We have a contract. We can create some leverage for the next one by performing now so that we actually have a metric which can show our displeasure.

Call me a Marvin all you want, but I don't enjoy flying with FO's who are going to be furloughed..... again. If it comes to that because our management sucks then I can handle that. But it's going to be hard to look in the mirror while I'm burning extra dinosaurs at $113/barrel and watching them get shown the door because we are losing money and shrinking. I defend the contract to the letter, but I DO think it's time we do our part to save $$ an fuel. It's one less thing that management can blame us for their failures about.