Originally Posted by aewanabe

My apologies for assuming you were a Pease guy.

I don't think we're going to change each other's minds, but my last volley: I was an E190 CA until last year, so we may have crossed paths. If you re-read the exchange in the other thread, I stated I would ask (and respectfully point out the reasons why) that you defer cleaning between legs. That conversation would happen prior to getting Pro Stans involved. Some hypotheticals that have actually happened in my career here: you cleaned, while I checked the release, setup the cockpit and checked with the gate agent about jumpseaters. Now by the time you get to the walk around and notice the shattered taxi light lens or the leaking hydraulic line on the main gear brake assembly we're 10 minutes prior to departure with the customers mostly reboarded. Or I grabbed the walkaround while you cleaned, and by the time I returned to the cockpit we've begun re-boarding and you haven't reviewed the release yet and notice we lack a required 2nd alternate. Now I'm calling dispatch and getting the fueler back 10 minutes prior to departure. Be honest with yourself: if you're the FO in this case, did you legitimately complete your preflight duties to the best of your abilities IAW the FOM time-management turn guideline? And do you now still think cleaning the cabin was the best use of your time as a professional pilot?

The ensuing maintenance or fueling delays could have been likely avoided, or incurred without customers on the jet, had you attended to your pilot duties first vs your perception of teamwork. If after I ask you to attend to those duties first and can reference my authority to do so, you want to defy me to prove a point? Pro stans it is.

Finally, your LEC, MEC, and customers have made clear multiple times their stance on this issue. Regardless of how you think I present my position, why are you determined to buck all that data as well?