Originally Posted by
busdriver12
I am always there early and have completely looked things over before show time, unless it's an odd situation and I just landed and am running to make my show time.
However, it is not that unusual for an FO to show up at the computer right at show time, not having looked at a thing. It's not like I expect the FO to have everything highlighted and a taxi diagram printed out, with X's through the closed taxiways--though some do. But waiting till the last minute, and then spending 30 seconds browsing through the flight plan and wx---I know you aren't doing a very good job looking at it, and backing me up.
That's why it's called show time brother, stop giving the company your time for free. neither the FO or the Captain are unprofessional for showing up at show time. Somehow, we lost the perspective on this. The company has determined that we only need an hour prior to push. And let's face it, usually it only takes a few minutes to read and understand the release and MELs.